Cross-media picks for Jayne Ann Krentz fans — films, series, games and books in the same vein.
Jayne Ann Krentz fans know the pleasure of romantic suspense done right: sharp, capable heroines who keep their wits when desire and danger converge, heroes whose arrogance conceals something worth trusting, and plots that fold secrets and deception into the love story rather than around it. The picks here trade in the same currency — a stolen identity, a hidden agenda, a betrayal that reshapes everything. Whether it's Romancing the Stone's breathless adventure or Fingersmith's slow-burning con, each rewards anyone who wants romance to cost something.
Film
Lust, Lies, and Polygamy
A husband's suspicious absences unravel a woman's perfect life in this domestic thriller built on deception.
Film
Quills
A battle of wills between an uncontrollable imagination and those desperate to silence it.
Film
Sex & Mrs. X
A secure, successful woman rebuilds her identity after betrayal — with wit intact throughout.
Film
Romancing the Stone
A romance novelist stumbles into real danger and discovers adventure matches anything she's written.
Film
Dry Cycle
An accidental romance sparks between an artist and a woman on the run with secrets in tow.
Film
Naked Players
Two charming con-artists find a high-stakes heist complicated by unexpected feelings and rival schemes.
Film
B. Monkey
A good-hearted man falls for a thief whose dangerous secret life threatens to pull them apart.
Film
Passionate Partners
A woman joins her husband abroad and finds jealousy and a missing-persons mystery tangled together.
Series
Master's Sun
An arrogant CEO and a woman who sees ghosts find each other's presence is the only safe harbour.
Series
Ika-6 na Utos
Two people fighting family opposition discover their love is stronger than every obstacle thrown at it.
Series
Fingersmith
A maid hiding her true purpose as a con's instrument falls into a betrayal that changes everything.
Series
Taiga Novel
Men and women navigating duty, love and personal destiny in an isolated border posting far from home.
Series
Player
A woman betrayed by a fake marriage must outrun dangerous men while navigating a new, uneasy alliance.
Series
Tanto Amor
A wealthy family's ordered life fractures when love forces its way through the walls of perfection.
Series
Maison close
Trapped women in 19th-century Paris fight for agency and survival inside a world designed to hold them.
Series
Mistresses
Four women juggle ambition, desire and tangled relationships, each keeping secrets from the others.
Game
Highway Blossoms
Two women bond on an open-road treasure hunt, their growing connection the real prize.
Game
Loretta
A woman wronged by betrayal navigates guilt and consequence in a taut psychological thriller.
Game
Variable Barricade
A woman besieged by surprise suitors must outsmart her grandfather's matchmaking scheme on her own terms.
Game
Ladykiller in a Bind
A woman forced to masquerade as a man on a cruise ship juggles seduction, secrets and social games.
Game
Written in the Sky
A detective's daughter with a compulsion to investigate stumbles into something far more dangerous than expected.
Game
The Royal Trap: The Confines Of The Crown
A prince's companion must steer her charge through a political conspiracy that could destroy them both.
Game
Carpe Diem
A bittersweet story about ideals of perfection and the complicated feelings they stir in real people.
Game
Town of Sins
A stranger in a prim town finds its surface-level propriety conceals something far more scandalous beneath.
Book
The Disobedient Mistress (Sister Brides)
A woman in financial jeopardy must deal with an infuriating tycoon whose power over her cuts both ways.
Book
Affair
A woman who exposes untrustworthy men meets an alchemist-spy whose mystery she cannot decode.
Book
Passion's chains
A proud woman's discovery that her husband is alive and enslaved forces a reckoning with betrayal and desire.
Book
Dark Master
A hasty marriage to escape humiliation becomes its own trap, full of pain and dark complications.
Book
A shadowed love
A woman rebuilding in a beloved town finds old resentments reignited when a vengeful man reappears.
Book
Bound by a Scandalous Secret
A fake engagement between mismatched people to dodge the Season's pressures risks becoming something real.
Book
Valentine's fortune
A pregnant woman on the run is tracked down by the firefighter who saved her — and won't let go.
Book
Boss And The Plain Jayne Bride
A woman reinvents herself to win her boss, discovering her own worth in the process.
Start with Romancing the Stone for adventure-laced romance, or Fingersmith if you want a slower-burning con with serious betrayal stakes. Both reward fans who like smart heroines and plots with real twists.
Yes — Variable Barricade and The Royal Trap: The Confines of the Crown both feature capable heroines navigating schemes and secrets, with romance woven into tense social intrigue.
Several — Affair pairs a woman who investigates men with an alchemist-spy she can't read, while Bound by a Scandalous Secret turns a fake Regency engagement into genuine emotional stakes.