Books like Flowers of Fire by Stephanie Blake

As a viscount's daughter, Coralee Whitmore writes about London’s elite for a ladies’ gazette, but resolves into a determined journalist when her sister’s death triggers a dangerous investigation into the Earl of Tremaine.

When a novice abbess named Tara is captured by Viking raiders, she is forced into marriage with chieftain Rorik. Their journey takes them from northern fjords to the Black Sea as they fight war, betrayal, and cultural clash.

A young woman named Mary Monk becomes entangled with the dashing nobleman Gideon Hawkes amid the fallout of the Great Fire of London, discovering love beyond their initial desires.

Maggie Delamere, a celebrated playwright, must reignite her creativity while resisting the charms of Viscount Marwood, whose invitation to his country estate threatens to blur the lines between scandal and affection.

Drew Spencer, one of the famed Spencer brothers, vows to reclaim his lost love. Joanna Caldwell marries for convenience, but after her husband disappears, danger forces her back to the man who still protects her.

Ross Pary, born in the rough surroundings of Natchez‑Under‑the‑Hill, seeks to rise into the genteel world of Natchez‑on‑the‑Hill while pursuing a forbidden love and confronting the moral dilemmas of a Southern society on the brink of the Civil War.

A rugged outlaw and a humble train passenger find their hearts entangled across the frontier, confronting love and danger in equal measure.

A raw, gritty look at the chaos of the French Revolution, following the brutality that shapes lives and society.

Jess and Eliza Birdwell navigate frontier life, the Civil War, and its aftermath, facing rebellion, racism, and social inequity in Western America's rugged frontier.

In post‑Civil War Augusta, a young South Carolina woman overcomes poverty, an abusive marriage and racial prejudice to rise among the city’s elite, defying expectations with courage and honor.

Ellen Irvine, a Scottish laird’s daughter, is captured twice and ultimately marries her last captor, the English pirate Red Harry Graeme. Amid obsession and betrayal, she uncovers a dark family secret that forces her to choose love over vengeance and to mend conflict between warring clans.

In a breathtaking romance that races from the turbulence of nineteenth-century England to the sweltering penal colonies of the Australian jungle, from glamorous and sophisticated Paris to the wild California gold fields, from dazzling San Francisco to an earth-shattering climax of fierce passion and revenge, a beautiful woman and two determined men are relentlessly driven by the wanton winds of fate. ADELAIDE DEERING -- the golden-haired, green-eyed vixen whose blazing beauty stirred men's strongest passions and whose bold and reckless charms snared their very souls. CRAIG MacDOUGAL -- the dashing outlaw-turned-titan whose savage desire for Addie was matched only by his passion for plunder. JOHN BLANDINGS -- a man blinded by insane jealousy, whose hunger for Adelaide took him from the outcountry of Australia and propelled him on a violent trek across the globe.