Books like Wild Rose by Mary Canon

During World War II, a foster girl in Nazi Germany steals books to share with neighbors and a hidden Jewish man, proving literature’s power to nourish the soul amid darkness.

Twenty‑five year‑old Belly Conklin returns to the family summer home on the coast, where a cancer diagnosis forces her to confront love, loss, and growing up amid the familiar rhythm of beach life.

Caseworker Linus travels to a remote orphanage to investigate ragged kids and their enigmatic caretaker Arthur, only to discover that the island’s magical children—and his own heart—are part of something larger than he imagined.

Two college friends discover that love can span continents and a decade when they reunite after life‑changing choices thrust them apart.

Set in the rocky highlands of Colorado, college‑teacher‑in‑the‑making surveyor Clayton Taggart meets strong‑willed newcomer Jackie Fontaine, and their budding romance is tested by a hidden secret that threatens their future together.

In 1888 East London, tea‑factory worker Fiona Finnegan and her lover Joe Bristow dream of owning a shop. After tragedy forces her into New York, Fiona rises from a modest storefront to a top tea‑industry magnate, only to confront her past to secure her future.

Convenient Bride for the King is a romance novel by Kelly Hunter that explores themes of love, duty, and destiny within a fictional setting.

Julia Forrester, a concert pianist, returns to the estate of Wharton Park after wartime grief, uncovering a family secret that links her to the Crawford heirs and a forbidden love that shaped the house’s history.

HE FAIREST FLOWER THAT GROWS Where the velvet moss grew and the wild roses twined, Karalee Nolan had often walked. This was her Ireland and she knew it well. She knew of its strife, of families separated by famine, of fathers who crossed the seas to find work, and now, of families who were forced into exile by the British. Even her own, because her brother was an Irish rebel. That black and dreadful day her family sailed without her, she was promised a place on the next ship to Philadelphia. And she too had to leave someone behind -- her own true love, wounded by the British and left for dead.... Carried across the sea, shipwrecked in Canada, abandoned by friends, and raped by Indians, Karalee, stubborn and determined, will not give up her one passionate hope -- to be reunited with her beloved family in the colonies. Nor will she ever forget that fine Irish rogue who taunted her, who teased her, and who awakened in her the deep desire of first love along that path where the wild roses bloomed..

Geneva Patterson, an outcast in Maine’s Haven’s End, seeks redemption for the accused sea‑captain Caleb Phelps, hoping love and faith can restore his honor.

Teenager Meg, now a young adult, uses street smarts and newly learned Quality skills to spy for the Jacobite cause while navigating intrigue among London actors and writers, leading to a love triangle that threatens her safety and future.

Maire O’Byrne, sister of a famed Irish rebel, must feign amnesia to protect her brother and finds love in her enemy, Lord Duncan FitzWilliam, the stoic Norman commander of Longford Castle.