Books like A heritage of shadows by O'Donnell, Peter

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.

In an elite New England college, a charismatic classics professor lures a group of eccentric students into obsessive study, leading them from intellectual curiosity to corruption, betrayal, and ultimately murder.

A young scholar uncovers a labyrinthine family legacy, tracing the truth of Vlad the Impaler and the myth of Dracula across centuries and borders, risking life and sanity to confront an ancient evil.

A gripping tale of passion, deception, and the dangers of the Cold War in Afghanistan.

Jemimah Lawley escapes brutal captivity in Central Asia and returns to her ancestral Witchwood Hall, only to be accused of imposture. Guided by a mysterious benefactress, she uncovers the truth behind the cryptic word "Stormswift".

Tamar Brown arrives in a small English village to investigate the story of Abigail Parkes, a witch burned three centuries earlier. As superstitions flare, Tamar faces danger and a reunion with her long‑lost lover, William.

In medieval England, Lady Bria Delaney, a fierce adventurer, fights tyranny as the masked Midnight Shadow while falling for her sworn enemy, Lord Terran Knowles, whose fortunes ebb and threats loom.

In the sunlit village of Asherby Cross, Maggie Ossian discovers her friend Lilian has turned into a mysterious, nocturnal creature, and a dangerous web of intrigue and revenge threatens the town.

In the arid Australian desert, a wild woman named Meg saves a dying English aristocrat, Luke, and discovers a new life that takes them across continents, Victorian London, and back to her aboriginal past.

In late‑Victorian London, a battleground of aristocracy and intrigue, Eustacia Rochdale is wed to heir Julian Kershaw of Dragonmede, only to discover her mother's schemes and a growing danger at the manor.

A humble schoolteacher leaves her modest life to marry into wealth, only to find her new home a suffocating maze of precious objects. When enigmatic Miss Bede arrives, her affable guidance and hidden motives threaten to unravel the couple’s fragile sanctuary.

In the picturesque Emberside Grange, Isobel Penrose’s quiet life is shattered when a sinister stranger, Simeon Graw, arrives with a mysterious companion, plunging the town into eerie danger and a perilous search for her missing cousin Lydia.

In The Long Shadow, Hannah Medlar’s tranquil life is shattered when a chance encounter at a village wedding in 1852 sets off a chain of events that threatens her family’s fragile happiness.

Ennis Corbyn, a spirited young woman, is adopted by Marquesa de Verletta and introduced into high society. The Marquesa's wealth and attention from the Prince Regent overshadow Ennis's social success, but her love for a dashing Damien Wynton and a mysterious Oliver Embury adds to the eerie happenings in the old wing.

A woman's journey into the heart of Cornwall, where she discovers the thrill of pirate life and the ultimate choice between love and danger.

"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.

A teacher in a secluded Pennine village finds herself entangled in a web of romance, mystery, and dark secrets when a student disappears, forcing her to confront hidden dangers within the community.

In Victorian England, Brook Edgerton’s longing for an heir leads his wife Harriet to a desperate act of motherhood, while her close friend Felicity’s obsession threatens to unravel their marriage.

A young woman discovers a hidden step‑brother and a mysterious inheritance, forcing her to confront dark family secrets amid the glittering world of 19th‑century London.

Emma Delaney inherits a shadowed inheritance when she marries wealthy Oliver Foy, only to find her life a twisted masquerade that forces her to flee a Jamaican plantation, reassess her identity, and seek refuge in the Caribbean.

When reclusive novelist Vida Winter’s health wanes, she tasks biographer Margaret Lea with revealing the truth of her life, though Margaret must sift through Winter’s penchant for exaggeration to arrive at facts.

A passionate romance between a young aristocrat and a woman with a legitimate inheritance, but a bastard son, leading to tragedy and legal battles in 1980s England.

Sixteen‑year‑old Cassandra and her family flee a government seeking antigens from aboriginal blood to stop a plague. On Island she learns to speak with spirits and discover her destiny as their voice.