Books like The Knight and the Dove (Kensington Chronicles, Book 4) by Lori Wick

Charles Dickens’ classic bildungsroman follows an orphan named Pip as he grows from humble beginnings in Kent to London society, encountering wealth, poverty, love, and moral triumph.

A Christmas Carol is Charles Dickens’ allegorical novella about Ebenezer Scrooge, whose miserly ways are transformed through visits from Jacob Marley and the spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Future.

A love story set in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars, where Anne Elliot finds herself amidst the Regency era as her sister rents Miss Elliot's father's house, leading to an unexpected reunion with Captain Frederick Wentworth and the return of her beloved.

After her husband’s tragic death, Marty Claridge becomes the unexpected mother of Clark Davis’s daughter, Mission. As she bonds with the family, she faces a life‑changing choice: return home or stay on the frontier.

Set between South Carolina and New York, this 40‑year saga follows brothers Tom and Savannah Wingo as they confront family secrets and turbulence.

A Regency captain uncovers a mysterious toll-gate disappearance, solves the case, and secures a heroine’s affection with the aid of a rogue.

A Regency love‑story in which Captain Adam Deveril, newly titled Viscount, must secure his estate by marrying an heiress he has never met, leading him into a marriage of convenience that surprisingly transforms his life.

Lord Giles Cardross believes his 18‑year‑old wife, Helen, loves him, but her frivolous ways and rising debts make him question whether she married for money. Family scandals and hidden truths threaten their union.

Sir Bracken of Hawkings Crest is ordered by King Henry to marry into a loyal family, but the arrogant Marigold of Stone Lake refuses. Her jealousy drives her mad, threatening her sister Megan, whom Bracken must protect while the duke struggles between loyalty and love.

When a young priest refuses his destined ministry, he is drawn into a deadly spy game by a powerful British noble, forces him to infiltrate a sect of religious separatists and uncover the leader’s hidden truth.

Sofea, captured by raiders in 1388 B.C., narrowly escapes slavery and seeks refuge in ancient Israel, where danger and faith test her resolve.

In a medieval setting, a noble knight saves the unconscious Lady Juliana de Greyne, only to discover she is the sister he was bound to marry. Amid kidnapping, betrayal, and lost memories, he vows to protect her and uncover the truth.

Love, loyalty, and danger collide at a borderlands castle as William FitzAlan seeks to claim his prize and Lady Catherine Rayburn must choose between marriage and imprisonment.

A generational saga of the noble Wakefields and working‑class Morgans, set in England from the reigns of George II to George III, weaving real figures like Elizabeth I, William Tyndale and John Bunyan into a study of faith and ambition.

Hugh le Despenser, a young heir burdened by his family’s past, is wed to thirteen‑year‑old Bess de Montacute; as they struggle to build a marriage, a deadly plague threatens the love they are beginning to nurture.

When the Marquis of Amberley's coach is waylaid by highwaymen and his coachman shot, he is forced to take shelter at the first house he finds and is subsequently trapped there for a week by a severe snowstorm. Oakleigh Manor is the home of Rosalind Vernon who lives alone but for her devoted servants and an ill-natured parrot, cut off from the outside world by the tragic result of a childhood accident. But Rosalind is brave and bright and totally devoid of self-pity - and it is these qualities which, as the days pass and the snow continues to fall, touch Amberley's heart. On his return to London, the Marquis persuades Rosalind's brother, Philip, to bring her to town for a taste of society, despite her handicap. But the course of Amberley's courtship is far from smooth. Philip Vernon actively dislikes him; Rosalind appears to be falling under the spell of the suavely elegant Duke of Rockliffe; and worse still, Amberley is haunted by a dark and terrible secret that, if revealed, may cause him to lose Rosalind forever.