Books like Promise to a boy by Mary Brady

Pride and Prejudice is a classic novel by Jane Austen.

Two young lovers, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, form a private detective agency and are hired to locate a missing woman named Jane Finn, whose disappearance threatens post‑war Britain.

After a celebrated Seattle architect mysteriously disappears, her daughter Bee searches for her by piecing together emails, documents, and family secrets. The novel blends humor and heart as it explores a mother‑daughter bond in a quirky, modern world.

A Texas postmistress gets mixed up in a Central American adventure and finds herself chasing down her own brother.

Strange Bedfellow follows Dina, who must decide whether to re‑embrace her estranged husband Blade after his dramatic return from the South American jungle, all set against the backdrop of Rhode Island.

James returns from a sea wreck after six years in a dissociative fugue, discovering he is a widower with two sons and a fiancée who married a new family. He must navigate identity, family, and a brother’s criminal past.

School nurse Kate Cypher returns to rural Vermont to care for her Alzheimer's‑stricken mother, only to uncover a young girl’s murder that echoes a decades‑old unsolved killing of her childhood friend. Haunted by past and present, Kate faces betrayal, friendship, and unsettling secrets.

An ordinary snapshot leads to a suburban mother's unraveling world as she tries to shield her children from her husband who has been found dead with a family photograph in his possession, and the revelation of a ruthless killer who will stop at nothing to find Jack and the photo.

Marigold Chance, a successful businesswoman, confronts the returning international yachtsman Ethan Chandler, determined to prove her growth from the "ugly duckling" to a modern, self-assured swan while navigating their complicated love story.

Grace, a lifelong resident of Cedar Cove and public‑library librarian, grapples with her husband Dan’s sudden disappearance while navigating family, friend, and town dynamics amid weddings, babies, and new relationships.

Bad Boy reveals how Lee Atwater began his career controlling crowds as a jittery class clown, traumatized by the agonizing death of his little brother. In college he discovered the subtle intercourse of policy and public opinion and grew from party animal to party man. Bad Boy details Atwater's political strategies from the grass roots to the national level. Even more ruthless were the behind-the-scenes power games as he crossed paths, and occasionally crossed swords, with nearly every major Republican of the 1980s: Reagan, Bush, Baker, Ailes, Rollins, and many more. In Bad Boy we also see the faces Atwater tried to spin away. He was a compulsive womanizer, climbing through windows to avoid reporters. He played racial politics but promoted "big tent" Republicanism. Even his last public moment is controversial. Did Atwater's deathbed words really repudiate entire campaigns, or were they twisted by political enemies and second-hand reporting? Was his repentance sincere or simply one last gasp of press manipulation? Was he responsible for the infamous Willie Horton ads, or was he unfairly blamed by 1988's losers, trying for a moral victory? Is Lee Atwater, a master of spin, now being spun in his grave?