Books like Stormy Season by Melanie Dickerson

When Leya Brandon meets the enigmatic Court Tremayne, their instant attraction turns into a passionate battle of wills. Court’s secrets and Leya’s doubts force them to confront what they truly want, testing trust and desire.

In Thornbeck Forest, a young maiden secretly poaches to feed orphaned children, while the margrave’s forester hunts her—only to discover they'd met by chance at a midsummer dance, blurring duty and affection.

Annabel, the former daughter of a wealthy merchant, seeks refuge in a nunnery while bound in indentured servitude to the mysterious Lord Ranulf. Her growing faith and complex emotions are challenged by a cruel bailiff and a fragile, potentially dangerous relationship with Ranulf.

Rapunzel can throw a knife better than any man. She paints beautiful flowering vines on the walls of her plaster houses. She sings so sweetly she can coax even a beast to sleep. But there are two things she is afraid her mother might never allow her to do: learn to read and marry. Fiercely devoted to Rapunzel, her mother is suspicious of every man who so much as looks at her daughter, and warns her that no man can be trusted. After a young village farmer asks for Rapunzel's hand in marriage, Mother decides to move them once again -- this time, to the large city of Hagenheim. The journey proves treacherous, and after being rescued by a knight -- Sir Gerek -- Rapunzel, in turn, rescues him farther down the road. As a result, Sir Gerek agrees to repay his debt to Rapunzel by teaching her to read. Could there be more to him than his arrogance and desire to marry for riches and position? As Rapunzel acclimates to life in a new city, she uncovers a mystery that will forever change her life. A world of secrets and treachery are about to be revealed after seventeen years. How will Rapunzel finally take control of her own destiny? And who will prove faithful to a lowly peasant girl with no one to turn to?

Written in the Stars is a historical romance that explores 19th‑century manners and the evolving dynamics between men and women, set against the backdrop of traditional social customs; it examines how personal relationships shape and are shaped by the norms of the time.

When Melanie went out to the romantic tropical island of Mindoa, in the Indian Ocean, she was little more than a schoolgirl, both in years and in lack of experience of life. When she left only eight months later she had become a woman. What was responsible for the change? Partly it was Mindoa itself, exotic and glamorous and utterly unlike anything Melanie had encountered before; perhaps it was the people she met - the small but cosmopolitan white colony, living together but all so different from each other. But most of all it was the masterful Stephen Brent who brought about such a transformation in the quiet English girl - Stephen, between whom and Melanie there was such a gulf of years and worldly experience, yet against whose magnetic attraction she had not a chance to defend herself.

A captivating tale of love, revenge, and forbidden passion in Regency England and America.

In 1814 Darbury, an heiress defies expectations to raise her friend’s dying infant, even courting the child’s sea‑captain father to keep her promise.