Books like Conditional Surrender by Wendy Prentice

Working for Harn Durrant, Gemma develops her career while seeking revenge for a fired stepsister. But a growing attraction to the businessman complicates her plans, leading to unexpected heartache.

Brooke Beauclere, a secretary to the powerful entrepreneur Adam Henderson, must navigate love, power and class pressure as she discovers the price of love is far beyond money.

When Tansy first encounters Vin Makram, a powerful Thai businessman and fashion designer, their brief conflict turns into a complex business relationship that blurs the line between professional ambition and personal intrigue.

Darcy Lennox, a secretary to billionaire Maximiliano Fonseca Roselli, is pulled into a risky fake marriage to secure a pivotal deal—but when a heated kiss reveals deeper stakes, both must confront their true desires.

A contemporary romance about Neale, who confronts her fears and desires when her future is thrown into uncertainty by a charismatic luxury‑hotel developer, leading to a passionate and potentially devastating encounter.

A novel set against the backdrop of the Cold War, featuring a man trying to distance himself from his past and an artist struggling for independence, exploring themes of masculinity and societal norms.

Michael A. Singer recounts his own journey from quiet hippie years and computer engineering to pursuing enlightenment, offering meditation and self‑realization guidance.

Pinkerton detective Alexander Bixby is sent to 1894 River's Edge, Minnesota, to investigate counterfeiters, only to find love and suspicion in the eyes of the town’s hopeful young woman, Amanda Mason.

THEIR LOVE WAS CHAINED BYA LEGACY OF BITTERNESS Veterinarian Kit Shannon was struggling to build her dream: a game reserve on the African land she'd inherited. But opposing her was Devin Michaels, as bold and rugged as magnificent Mount Kenya. Devin had immediately branded Kit as a beautiful manipulator--just like her mother, whose seductive ways had destroyed his father. Haunted by her mother's betrayal, Devin regarded Kit through a haze of stormy mistrust. Yet between them flared a passion so intense that it rocked Kit to the core. She hoped they could amend the mistakes of the past, but feared they were only repeating them.

A work in progress at the time of Pasolini's murder, Petrolio is made up of a series of notes - some extended and polished narrative passages, others cryptic messages from the author to himself that consist of no more than a few words. At the novel's center is Carlo, an oil executive who undergoes a profound personality split: Carlo 1 is a super-Machiavellian power monger; Carlo 2 lives only to satisfy his perverse and insatiable sexual desires. Carlo also experiences a sexual metamorphosis in which he becomes, at will, female. The story of Carlo is interspersed with re-visions of myth - Oedipus, Medea, the Argonauts - and of Dante's hell. The teller of this story is also dual in nature. There is the author - the external shaper of the novel - who interrupts the text to comment on its mechanics and its meaning. And there is the narrator, whose cynical and seductive perspective comes from within Petrolio's fictional world. Fragmentary, deliberately self-referential, meta-literary, schizoid, a devotional exploration of the male libido, an ode to the lust for power and the power of lust and, above all, a wrenching attempt to define the intellectual and his responsibilities, Petrolio is a postmodern masterpiece.

During the American Civil War in Florida, a Yankee colonel’s daughter and a staunch Confederate supporter find love that defies their opposing loyalties, illustrating how passion can bridge deep political divides.