Books like Silversword by Phyllis A. Whitney

A gripping, true‑story adventure of three Polish children—Ruth, Bronia, and Edek—who must survive the horrors of Nazi‑occupied Warsaw in 1942 after their parents are taken.

Two brothers embark on an perilous quest to locate the legendary Sword of Shannara, the only blade capable of vanquishing an evil overlord and saving their realm.

When a playful "Mr. Perfect" list sparks office intrigue, the joke turns deadly serious as a colleague is murdered and a stalker targets the women who wrote it, forcing them to question trust, love, and survival.

When Kelsey Byden learns her mother Naomi Chadwick is alive after years in prison for a lover’s murder, she travels to her mother’s Virginia horse farm to confront deception, rebuild a fractured bond, and face a new romance that tests her trust.

A wealthy socialite is captured amid a global conspiracy, and a seasoned government agent must rescue her while their growing attraction challenges both their missions and personal loyalties.

Sarah Addison Allen’s charming follow‑up to *Garden Spells* follows 27‑year‑old Josey Cirrini as waitress Della Lee’s unexpected arrival turns her sugary‑cluttered life into a journey of friendship, romance, and quirky magic.

Olivia Lowell learns her mother is alive and has left her a fortune—conditioned on uncovering a decades‑old crime committed with college friends. With a dashing lawyer’s help and her beloved Yorkies, she must confront family secrets and mend a fractured relationship with her father.

A heartbreaking, Pacific‑Northwest summer reunites estranged sisters Meghann, a divorce attorney, and Claire, who falls in love, as they confront past betrayals and discover the healing power of family.

After seven years of searching for her missing daughter, Jennifer Blake receives a surprising invitation from a wealthy woman who claims to have found her child, leading her into a web of secrets and danger on Vancouver Island.

Mallie Rice confronts the haunted Silverhill, where mirrors distort reality and family secrets surface, as she battles for love, sanity and survival under the shadow of Grandmother Julia and her half‑demented Aunt Arvilla.

In 19th‑century Virginia City, Camry Parker defies her father's choice of a rough‑skinned miner, refusing to marry the rugged Nick Trelstad—and discovers a fierce longing that challenges the limits of romance and duty.

When famed actress Rosamond’s health forces her into retirement, her daughter Shay struggles to fill the void left by her mother's Hollywood fame and rising romance with a sharp‑edged investigative author, Mitch. The novel explores fame, love and family legacies.

In the quiet town of Twin Rivers, a widowed mother, a daughter, and a former federal agent confront their pasts while seeking healing and new love.

In Rhode Island’s wind‑blown South County, single mother Neve Halloran and her teenage daughter Mickey wrestle with love, loss, and a wildlife sanctuary that holds a decades‑old secret, offering a path to hope and new beginnings.

Devon McAllister and her daughter seek refuge in Thunder Point, Oregon, where they meet widowed father Spencer Lawson, who offers safety and stability in their new life.

Alzheimer’s threatens the life of famed advice columnist Grace Dorian, forcing her daughter Francine to step into the spotlight, manage the family business, and navigate a growing romantic interest, all while keeping Grace’s condition a secret.

Thunder Heights To Camilla King, her trip up the Hudson to the huge Gothic mansion named Thunder Heights was in a way a return to the home that had never been hers. From there her grandfather, Orrin Judd, the financier, ran his vast empire. When Camilla had been a child her mother had returned there for a visit and mysteriously died. From that point on, for reasons she had never understood, Camilla's father had cut himself off completely from the Judd family. And later Camilla, now an orphan and quite alone, had been making her way as a governess in New York City. The summons from the old man had come as a complete surprise. Yet Camilla obeyed it willingly, half out of curiosity, half in the hope of discovering a home and family of her own. She found a sick old man anxious to make his peace with her before he died. She found two extraordinary aunts--imperious Aunt Hortense, dressed in bygone fashions, and fey, ghostlike Aunt Letty, haunted by some strange guilt or sorrow. She found also Hortense's adopted son, Booth, a strange, sardonic young man who seemed content to idle away his considerable talents as a painter, and Ross Granger, who had been brought there as an aide to her grandfather and who treated her with the most rigid formality. Over the enormous house hung an atmosphere of gloom, impending danger, and strange crosscurrents. And out of these elements Phyllis Whitney has fashioned an extraordinarily holding story. Old Orrin Judd's amazing will, young Booth's unfinished portrait of Camilla's mother, the house itself, which took on a character of its own, and one near-accident after another, seemingly aimed at driving Camilla away, all play their parts. The Window on the Square THE SCENE IS NEW YORK CITY IN THE 1870's. A letter summons young Megan Kincaid to the house on Washington Square. In a startling interview the master of the house, Brandon Reid, informs her that he wishes her to devote herself to moody, unbalanced Jeremy, Mrs. Reid's son by her previous husband, Brandon's younger brother Dwight. Dwight Reid's brilliant career as New York District Attorney had been ended by a shocking and tragic accident with a gun--or so the newspapers had claimed--at the hands of this same guilt-ridden child, then aged seven. Against her better judgment, Megan accepts the challenge. From the beginning Megan feels uneasy in the house; she senses the presence of lurking evil, of mysterious emotional undercurrents, of relationships that are not what they appear to be. She does not know whom to trust--the haughty yet strangely sad beauty, Leslie Reid, or the somber, fascinating master of the house, whose warm voice belies his cold, grave manner. She finds herself irresistibly drawn toward him, and their growing mutual attraction is duly noted by interested members of the household. When Megan realizes fully the extent of her own feelings, she knows she cannot honorably remain in the Reid home. Yet she also knows that if she goes, Jeremy will be left alone in world, irretrievably lost.