Books like The Short Engagement by Marjorie Lewty

Eighteen‑year‑old Amanda Dawson leaves her quiet Devonshire village for the glamorous world of her estranged father, confronting wealth, high society and a forbidden attraction to his business partner, Blair Craddock, who is already engaged to Juliet.

Tessa Durant, a chemist haunted by a past love, is offered a new career at Brent Pharmaceuticals and a chance to rediscover romance when she meets the dashing Alaric Brent.

A teenage romance novel set in a mill town during the 1950s, focusing on Jean and Maggie's evolving love and family dynamics.

A family’s idyllic summer party at a grand estate in Cornwall turns into a desperate search when six‑year‑old Theo vanishes, leaving the house abandoned and the siblings torn apart.

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 long‑lost letter from Millderhurst Castle uncovers a hidden family secret, pulling Edie Burchill into her mother’s past and a World War II story hewn from the silent walls of Bermondsey.

Polly meets relentless Piran St. Just in Paris; he promises her anything for a coveted custody of his nephew Jules, while her life becomes entwined in a quest to secure her future.

A Highland romance involving a drunken abductor and his captivated captive who must overcome obstacles to win her heart.

In 1930s Northern Canada, brothers Arthur and Jake vie for their father's farm amid looming war. When a young woman arrives, sibling rivalry turns into a fragile, emotional storm that shakes their rural lives.

"I very much need to be dead." These are the chilling last words left by a man who had everything to live for but took his own life. In the void that remains stands his widow, FBI agent Jane Hawk, surrounded by questions destined to go unanswered unless she does what all the grief and fury inside her demand: Find the truth, no matter what. People of talent and accomplishment, people seemingly happy and sound of mind, have recently been committing suicide in surprising numbers. A disturbing pattern is beginning to emerge. Jane is determined to give up everything to find out why. And if that means going rogue and becoming America's Most Wanted, then so be it. Those arrayed against her are legion, and devoted to protecting something profoundly important-or terrifying-enough to exterminate any and all in their way. But Jane is as clever as these enemies are cold-blooded, as relentless as they are ruthless. And she is driven by a righteous rage they can never comprehend. Because it is born of love.

Molly Deems schemes to secure wealth and status by marrying rich heir Elijah Merrick, only to discover her passion for him may outshine ambition.

JoNell is trapped in a South American country with a wealthy playboy, but a spark of passion reignites her hatred of him.

A tale of romance and war in 18th-century New York, where a widow must navigate a tumultuous time and choose between two suitors, Loyalist and Patriot, before the war erupts.