Books like Fire by night by Lynn N. Austin

Pride and Prejudice is a classic novel by Jane Austen.

A novel about Emma Woodhouse, a young woman's struggles with matchmaking, misplaced pride, and the dangers of meddling in others' lives in 18th-century England.

A Pulitzer‑winning historical novel that dramatizes the four‑day Battle of Gettysburg from the viewpoints of Union and Confederate leaders.

A mysterious gun maker offers unlimited AK-47s to the Confederates during the American Civil War, altering the course of the battle and leading to a shocking revelation about the future of the United States.

Set in Mississippi during the Civil War and Reconstruction, The Unvanquished follows the Sartoris family, whose code of personal responsibility and courage embodies the best of Old South traditions.

Confederate Captain Nate Starbuck’s bravery at Cedar Mountain is tested when General Faulconer doubts his loyalty, setting the stage for a violent clash the night before the Second Battle of Manassas.

Set in post‑Civil War Friendship, Wisconsin, the novel follows Sheriff‑Under‑Taker‑Pastor Jacob Hansen as a deadly epidemic sweeps his town, forcing him to confront disease, hysteria, and the limits of his humanitarian resolve.

A young woman in early 20th‑century Northern Ireland wrestles with family secrets, wartime politics, and a love triangle that pulls her between a fiery independence activist and a wealthy pacifist.

Widowed Lady Cassandra St. Ives finds herself drawn to a mysterious long-distance admirer, Count Basilio Montevarchi. When she visits his home, the passion that blossoms is torn by duty and an existing betrothal.

A young Egyptian woman's life spanned Cairo’s political upheavals, from Mubarak’s regime to the revolution, tracing her coming of age, family secrets, and search for truth.

A romance story set in Seattle, focusing on the bonds between Militine, a young woman, and Thane, a man with a dark secret, as they navigate the complexities of man-woman relationships and Christian values in a historical context, exploring themes of redemption and the transformative power of friendship and understanding.

In war-torn France, Jo McMahon, an Italian-Irish girl from the tenements of Brooklyn, tends to six seriously wounded soldiers in a makeshift medical unit. Enemy bombs have destroyed her hospital convoy, and now Jo singlehandedly struggles to keep her patients and herself alive in a cramped and freezing tent close to German troops. There is a growing tenderness between her and one of her patients, a Scottish officer, but Jo's heart is seared by the pain of all she has lost and seen. Nearing her breaking point, she fights to hold on to joyful memories of the past, to the times she shared with her best friend, Kay, whom she met in nursing school. Half a world away in the Pacific, Kay is trapped in a squalid Japanese POW camp in Manila, one of thousands of Allied men, women, and children whose fates rest in the hands of a sadistic enemy. Far from the familiar safety of the small Pennsylvania coal town of her childhood, Kay clings to memories of her happy days posted in Hawaii, and the handsome flyer who swept her off her feet in the weeks before Pearl Harbor. Surrounded by cruelty and death, Kay battles to maintain her sanity and save lives as best she can . . . and live to see her beloved friend Jo once more. When the conflict at last comes to an end, Jo and Kay discover that to achieve their own peace, they must find their placeand the hope of lovein a world that's forever changed. With rich, superbly researched detail, Teresa Messineo's thrilling novel brings to life the pain and uncertainty of war and the sustaining power of love and friendship, and illuminates the lives of the women who risked everything to save others during a horrifying time.

"SHE WAS LOST BUT NOW SHE'S FOUND Chloe Mason spent half her childhood in and out of hospitals. She has no memory of her early years and feels a gaping hole in her life. But now she's well and can go looking for her past. When she finds her long lost brother, she finds something even more important in her new life. Love. NEVER AGAIN As a child, Mike Keillor watched his family massacred. Never again, he vowed, would he be a victim. He grew up strong and tough as steel. A Marine Force Recon sniper, SWAT officer, expert in martial arts and... player. Because no woman would ever capture his heart. Now he runs a successful security company with the men he considers his brothers. But when his friend Harry reconnects with his long lost sister, Mike is felled by the one thing he can't fight. Love. When Chloe inadvertently steps into the path of the Russian Mafia, Mike finds an adversary bigger than he is, but nothing can stop him. He lost his family, but he will not lose Chloe. Failure is not an option"--

In eighteenth‑century Venice, close friendship turns into peril when two girls—Marietta and Elena—are drawn into a centuries‑old vendetta and a brutal marriage, forcing them to risk everything for love and loyalty.

In seventeenth‑century Isfahan, a young weaver rises from servant to celebrated rug designer, while navigating duty, secrecy and the limits of love.