Books like Devil's Mount

Devil's Mount by Anne Mather reads as dramatic, intense. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

What Devil's Mount is like to read

A gentle 1970s category romance carried by a secretary's slow realization of feeling for her employer, complicated by a rival's claim; the pleasure is in the will-they tension rather than plot complexity. Best for: readers who enjoy classic Mills & Boon-style employer-employee romances with a rival and a guaranteed happy ending.

Rebecca

Daphne du Maurier · 1938

A creeping, dread-soaked gothic in which a timid young bride is slowly suffocated by the ghost of her husband's first wife — atmospheric, jealousy-poisoned, and building to a genuinely shocking revelation.

intensely scarycomplete story

A Tall Dark Stranger

Joan Smith · 1995

A light, witty Regency mystery-romance where amateur sleuthing and courtship banter intertwine, driven by comic village gossip and a suspiciously charming stranger.

guaranteed HEAdeep cut

Window on the Square

Phyllis A. Whitney · 1962

Both explore secrets & danger

Christopher's Diary - Secrets of Foxworth

V. C. Andrews · 2014

A gothic frame narrative where a modern teen becomes obsessed with a diary chronicling the notorious Dollanganger family, blurring past and present into a dark inheritance of secrets.

creepy, not gorydeep cut

The Black Swan

Eleanor Burford · 1990

Both explore secrets

House of Scorpio

Pat Wallace · 1975

An immersive, richly-detailed fantasy world serves as backdrop for six linked Gothic romances, each following one of six separated sisters toward eventual reunion and resolution.

guaranteed HEAcomplete storydeep cut

The silver dolphin

Velda Johnston · 1979

Both explore secrets & danger

Winterwood

Dorothy Eden · 1967

A gothic romantic suspense novel steeped in family secrets, scheming relatives, and a lonely English estate, where a penniless heroine must navigate danger to protect a vulnerable child.

creepy, not gorydeep cut

Wuthering Heights [adaptation]

E. M. Attwood · 1956

Same romance feel

Bride of a Stranger:(Classic Gothics Collection)

Jennifer Blake · 1977

A young bride navigates a cold plantation household full of secrets, suspicious accidents, and voodoo-tinged menace, unsure if her silent husband is protector or threat.

guaranteed HEAcreepy, not gorydeep cut