Books like My phantom husband by Marie Darrieussecq

A middle‑aged man returns to his childhood home, where memories of a magical girl and a mysterious farm haunt him, revealing a dark, supernatural mystery from his youth.

In the unforgettable Le Cirque des Rêves, two young magicians, Celia and Marco, are locked in a nocturnal duel of wonder and will—an impossible game where love and magic collide on a stage of breathtaking spectacle.

Nothing, in all it's entirety.

A young bride, the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter, arrives at Manderley on the Cornish coast and finds her new home haunted by the memory and housekeeper’s obsession with her mysterious, stylish predecessor—Rebecca.

A Black man's journey through racism, identity and activism in 1940s Harlem, culminating in a revelatory escape from the streets to self-knowledge.

Landscape gardener Mitch Rafferty has only sixty hours to rescue his kidnapped wife, facing a ruthless ransom demand and a deadly confrontation that turns his suburban life into a relentless thriller.

A novel of obsession and redemption, The Zahir explores the dark side of marriage and the power of love to fulfill or destroy dreams.

Set in a crumbling Georgian manor in rural Warwickshire, *The Little Stranger* follows a doctor arriving at a long‑standing family home where a death‑bed patient and chilling supernatural forces intertwine against the backdrop of post‑war Britain.

A mystery set in California that follows the interwoven lives of artists confronted with a missing persons case and the psychological separation of their identities.

A single‑mother mommy blogger’s world is shattered when her best friend disappears, sparking a suspenseful, psychological cat‑and‑mouse chase that tests loyalty, truth, and deception.

Architect Jared Rutledge agrees to build a haunted house for a clinic fundraiser, but the project spirals into a nightmare. He must enlist the help of his ex-wife, famed haunted‑house designer Lizzie Wilcox, to survive the supernatural chaos.

'Ghost Wife is moving, irresistible and new.' - Gloria Steinem Michelle Dicinoski has found the love of her life - and now she just wants to get married and live happily ever after. The only problem is, she's in love with an American woman, Heather, and neither Australia nor America recognises same-sex marriage. What to do when pride and prejudice - love and the law - collide? For Michelle, the answer is clear: go to Canada and get hitched there. This is the deep, funny, heart warming and brave story of that trip. Along the way, Michelle reflects on why anyone would want to get married anyway, on the power of acceptance, and on the startling ghost stories in her family. She investigates the hidden worlds of people who make lives for themselves outside social norms, sometimes illegally. Michelle doesn't want to disappear, not from her family and not from society. But living in Australia, will she always be a ghost wife?

An unfinished mystery where choirmaster John Jasper, his love for pupil Rosa Bud, and her fiancé Edwin Drood entangle in intrigue and disappearance.

NEXT-DOOR DADDY Chief of Police Thatcher Brant didn't need Samantha Hogan, his aggravating -- albeit attractive -- neighbor, in his life. His affection was reserved for his children, two beautiful reminders of hte past. He'd chosen a safe woman to love the first time, but now this widower was finding it harder than ever to ignore the girl next door. Samantha had a few thoughts herself about her good-looking neighbor. Thatcher's kids were adorable -- so how could their dad be such a grump? The children had the gift of Thatcher's love -- and it was a treasure Samantha would give anything to share....

After a fatal plane crash, Vermont professor David Zimmer is haunted by grief until he discovers a lost silent‑film comedy starring Hector Mann. Obsessed with the vanished star, Zimmer’s search drives him into a dreamlike world of lies, revelations, and unexpected love.

A wandering actor searches Europe for his missing father while navigating love, art, and the scars of a troubled past.

Mary Margaret goes to her father for help paying for her mothers' medical bills..Her Father tells her that he'll pay the bills if she stands in for her sister, Margaret Mary, at her wedding........just until she shows up that evening.....through a series of errors, she is officially married to a man she doesn't know with a blind step-daughter. Story takes place in Boston with lots of lovely info on the city.

Flora Johnson heads to a Caribbean island for a modeling gig, only to discover it belongs to her estranged husband, now a celebrated writer, and that the reunion may come too late.

One day a renowned author discovers that his wife, a war correspondent, has disappeared leaving no trace. Was she kidnapped, blackmailed, or simply bored with their marriage?