Books like Face Value

A breezy, vintage romantic escape where a career-driven heroine meets her match in a hero who refuses to take no for an answer. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with Face Value.

glamorous
breezy
swoony

01
Anything For You
Rosemary Hammond
A nostalgic, tension-filled battle of the sexes where professional ambition collides with an undeniable, reluctant attraction.
Shares:
- swoony
- earnest
- romantic
02
Barrier To Love
Rosemary Hammond
A classic vintage romance steeped in yearning, where a guarded career woman risks her heart on an emotionally unavailable playboy.
Shares:
- earnest
- romantic
03
Fetters of gold
Jane Donnelly · 1989
A sweeping, vintage romance of shifting loyalties and undeniable attraction set against the glamorous backdrops of Cornwall and the Greek Isles.
Shares:
- earnest
- romantic
- escapist
04
Max's proposal
Jane Donnelly · 1998
A nostalgic, emotionally charged marriage-of-convenience romance where practical arrangements inevitably surrender to passionate jealousy and true love.
Shares:
- earnest
- romantic
05
Wife for a penny
Anne Hampson · 1993
A sun-drenched, trope-heavy vintage romance where stubborn independence clashes with sweeping Mediterranean passion.
Shares:
- earnest
- romantic
- escapist
06
Rash Contract
Angela Wells
A tense and emotionally charged exploration of buried heartbreak and the turbulent collision of lingering attraction and bitter antipathy.
Shares:
- earnest
- romantic
07
Melt a frozen heart
Lindsay Armstrong · 1982
A tense, simmering battle of wills where a fiercely guarded woman is forced into close quarters with the architect of her past humiliation.
Shares:
- earnest
08
Risk Of The Heart
Grace Green
A breezy, escapist vacation romance where a fiercely independent heroine accidentally stumbles into the very love story she was trying to avoid.
Shares:
- breezy
- earnest
- romantic
- escapist
09
Something in return
Karen Van Der Zee
A glittering, emotionally earnest romance where a transactional arrangement slowly gives way to genuine vulnerability.
Shares:
- glamorous
- swoony
- earnest
- romantic
10
Promise to Pay
Daphne Clair
A high-stakes, tension-filled vintage romance where financial ruin forces a proud woman into a passionate battle of wills with a ruthless tycoon.
Shares:
- earnest
11
A different dream
Frances Roding
A romantic drama about stripping away glamorous facades to uncover the vulnerable, beating heart beneath.
Shares:
- earnest
- romantic
12
An Inconvenient Marriage
Diana Hamilton
A deliciously tense battle of wills where a forced marriage arrangement slowly melts into genuine, undeniable passion.
Shares:
- earnest
- romantic

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