Books like The Foolish Heart by Patricia Robins

After a long voyage, Jane and Vincent uncover a dying West Indies estate in dire disarray, facing revolting slaves, hidden lies and a looming threat to their unborn child.

Twelve tales of the heart by veteran author Denise Robins: Who is the attractive stranger who knocks on the Cornells' door one snowy Christmas Eve? Lucy discovers the answers to a tragic family secret - and finds lifelong romance. Charlotte and Bill are happily married - until they have children, forcing Charlotte to choose between being a loving wife and a caring mother. Nicholas Carden is impossibly handsome - and a woman hater. But Victoria is determined to marry him, by hook or by crook! ....

After a reckless romance with Londoner Clifford Culver, Raine stays with her grandmother in a South‑France villa, where she becomes entangled between the charismatic artist Armand and the scheming Culver, all amid the glittering backdrop of Cannes.

When the aristocratic Farrington family advertised for a cook-housekeeper they didn't expect an applicant as young, pretty and efficient as Helen Maye. She becomes intrigued by her new employers, especially their half-brother Johnny, who has been a stranger to his home for so long. When Helen first saw Johnny Farrington, she gasped. What was he doing, sitting there in the kitchen of his family's mansion at two in the morning - after he left home six years ago over a scandal at Oxford. But black sheep or not, beautiful Helen found herself falling in love with him, and love was thee last thing she expected when she acepted the post of cook-housekeeper for the Farringtons. Helen and Johnny begin to meet in secret, sharing the sweet moments only young lovers can know. But suddenly Mrs. Farrington's jewels are stolen, Johnny's presence is discovered, and he stands accused before his family. While suspicion and darkest doubt whirl arround Johnny, Helen never wavers - for sometimes only the truest love can know the truth.

In the Lake District of the 1950s, Dana defends the majestic stag she calls The Noble One from a ruthless hunters’ plot, while navigating a tangled love triangle between the huntsman and the new Assistant Game Warden, Brett Chalmers.

At a wartime alpine clinic, nurse Christie Paige falls for Dr. Phillip Vereker, only to discover his marriage to a patient, leaving Christie to wrestle with longing while working under the inspiring Dr. Maxwell Grant.

When sisters visit their Great-Aunt Flossie in Baltimore, they discover a mysterious locked room that holds surprising family treasures.