Books like The black isle by Sandi Tan

A Christmas Carol is Charles Dickens’ allegorical novella about Ebenezer Scrooge, whose miserly ways are transformed through visits from Jacob Marley and the spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Future.

In Washington Irving’s classic, a superstitious schoolmaster falls ill after a chilling encounter with a headless horseman while courting a wealthy farmer’s daughter.

Janis Sutherland guards the tranquil Dark Isle, but her peace is challenged by Breck Fallon's bold ideas that threaten her beloved homeland.

A Sarmatian lord, defeated by Rome, seeks a fresh future for his people amid Roman Britain during Emperor Marcus Aurelius’s reign, exploring intrigue and friendship over battlefield glory.

In 1867, governess Eliza Caine arrives at Gaudlin Hall in Norfolk, where a hidden past and unseen forces threaten her, the children, and the house itself.

Moira MacLean has spent most of her life cloistered in the solemn halls of a Scottish convent - and has only ever known her father's iron will. So when a handsom warrior barges in with news of her father's dying wish - that she marry this stranger on the spot - Moira knows that duty has her bound. Soon Moira realizes the folly of her haste: that her father sent no such message: that she has just exchanged vows with her clan's own enemy, Ian Cameron of Glencoe. Left behind at the convent she discovers she carries his child. But all is not bleak in the foggy Scottish moors: Ian returns to take his bride home, leaving rumors that her life is in danger - but is it from her father or someone else? Ian recognizes in himself feelings he thought he'd never feel again. And although she, too, thinks herself impervious to the emotions of love, Moira may well be in for a surprise.

Last Hours follows an upper-class English family as they confront the Black Death and a strict quarantine in the midst of a devastating epidemic that threatens to upend their livelihood and social ties.