Books like How to Make a Deal with the Devil by Simon Kell

A housekeeper masquerading as a widowed custodian must protect her secrets at Castle Cardow, where a returned lord suspects her of murder and their heated tensions unfold amid haunting rumors.

A passionate romance set against the backdrop of 18th‑century seas and Parisian salons, tracing the tumultuous love triangle between Christina, the daring privateer Kade, and the envious French aristocrat Dominique.

When Kevin Taylor joins the Manhattan criminal law firm of John Milton & Associates, he's hit the big time. At last, he and his wife can enjoy the luxuries they've so desired--money, a chauffeur-driven limo, and a stunning home in a high-rise. Then Milton assigns Kevin one of the most notorious cases of the year, with a file that had been put together prior to the crime. Throwing himself into his work, Kevin begins to see a pattern of evil emerging from behind the firm's plush facade. Acquittal after acquittal, every criminal client walks free, and Kevin's suspicions slowly give way to terror. For Kevin has just become The Devil's Advocate.

Devil Take the Hindmost charts stock‑market speculation from the seventeenth century to today, showing how fear, greed and broader human drives—rather than pure profit motives—have shaped buyers, sellers and markets worldwide.

A small village’s postmistress Mae Holliday is found dead in the cathedral’s Lady Chapel, and suspicion rests on the local inebriate, Big John Little. His threats and the village’s secret coven hint at a tangled mystery.

When Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson are on holiday by the English coast, a corpse washes up on the beach and then vanishes, setting off a mystery that takes them into a wary village haunted by a devil worshiper.

A woman's desire...With dreams of a great romantic love, Abigail Carrington sails to England to marry the man she has loved since childhood, Michael Ingram, Marquis of Darfield. She believes her betrothed is a generous and noble man who has been longing for her. But the handsome man waiting for her at the altar is a dark, brooding stranger who rushes her into marriage, then abandons her at his country estate. Only the passion of Michael's kiss gives her hope that theirs can be more than a marriage of convenience.A man's need... With scandal shadowing his past, Michael, the Devil of Darfield, had no need for a wife. Remembering only the little hellion who made life miserable for him aboard her father's ship, he resents the agreement he made to marry her so he could save his ancestral home. Though determined to ignore her, he cannot stop thinking about his lovely violet-eyed bride. Her beauty tempts him. Her charm bedevils him. He tries to drive her away until he almost loses her. Then he vows to regain her love--before it is too late....From the Paperback edition.

Captain Kirk and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise race to evacuate the frontier colony Vesbius, which faces an extinction‑level threat and defiant colonists. First Officer Spock proposes an unexpected alliance to complete the mission.