Books like Countess by Mary Howard

An undercover reporter follows a celebrity into rehab to uncover juicy gossip about her personal life.

Caught in a compromising situation, Colleen MacGregor marries a man she barely knows to save her reputation. Sebastian Ware thinks he'll never see the sharp-tongued spinster again. He never planned on becoming the next Earl of Penwyth.or falling in love. But, before he can declare his feelings, he must protect her against an enemy who wants them both dead.

When the wealthy Countess Diana Wentbridge hides in Regency London as plain Miss West, she falls for a man whose wealth is not the sole reason for his love—until visits to a Cornish estate uncover revelations about her brother and the man she loves.

Lady Rosaline escapes her cousin who is determined to take over her substantial inheritance for himself. On the stormy night of her flight she takes shelter on the moors with a mysterious man who she fears has been sent to find her. Running away from him the next morning, she manages to join a troupe of actors incognito. But she meets the mysterious man again when she is invited to the estate of a lord who is a theater aficionado. The mystery man is the lord’s secretary, and she is free to turn to him for love and protection.

Prince Michael of Estavia has been exiled from his kingdom by the new ruler. Left penniless in England, he resolves to take up employment as a butler at a country estate. He is taken aback though when he finds out that Natalie, the dowager countess he is to work for, is a beautiful young widow. Then when his sister Princess Antonia arrives for a house party, even more complications emerge.

A blue-blooded bachelor! The last thing Carrie Dunn had expected when she arrived in the glamorous dukedom of San Rinaldo was to meet a real-life Prince Charming. A small-town American girl, she had been swept off her feet by the charismatic Count Leone Monecrespi and had almost believed that her fairy-tale romance could last a lifetime. But she and Leone were worlds apart -- marriage was out of the question. After all, who'd ever heard of a countess from Colorado?

American rancher Regina Pierce swaps her gold‑mining fortune for French nobility, marrying Baron Julian de Verlaine. Though the union began as a business deal, it turns into a passionate pursuit of love and status in a world where money is the ticket to aristocracy.

A Yorkshire lass travels to London in search of love and success, encountering romance, intrigue, and adventure in a vividly set historical romance.

When the Duchess of Harborough offers Harriet Treene a chance to model for one of her alluring paintings, Harriet accepts. Beautiful, witty, and bold, Harriet is a lowborn orange-seller in St. James Park. Can this diamond-in-the-rough be polished enough to find a place in the genteel ton -- and in the heart of London's most enigmatic rake? Devilishly irresistible William Manderville, Earl of Bonnington, refuses to take a wife because the covert risks he takes for the sake of his country put him in constant danger. A painting by his friend the duchess -- of a woman who looks like the goddess Venus -- could change his mind, however. As the duchess plays matchmaker between the enamored earl and the mysterious beauty, William finds himself caught up in a maelstrom of powerful emotions and desires he has never felt before. But can he finally take the risk of loving a woman when his love of danger and excitement will put her in harm's way?