Cross-media picks for Robyn Donald fans — films, series, games and books in the same vein.
These picks share the DNA of classic romance fiction: desire tangled up with power, secrets that destabilise seemingly settled lives, and protagonists who discover they have more agency than they thought. Whether it is a woman unravelling a husband's double life, a forced engagement that turns genuine, or a choice between safety and longing, the throughline is emotional intensity grounded in character. Lust, Lies, and Polygamy, Bound by a Scandalous Secret, The Royal Trap — each one asks how far a person will go when the heart and the stakes are both impossibly high.
Film
Lust, Lies, and Polygamy
A perfect marriage unravels into deception and danger when a mysterious stranger exposes a husband's hidden life.
Film
Intimates
A woman escaping a forced marriage finds rescue, intimacy, and a love built on shared survival rather than obligation.
Film
Sex & Mrs. X
A woman whose identity rested on her perfect marriage must reinvent herself entirely after being abandoned for another.
Film
The Royal Siren
A wealthy marriage is arranged for ambition, but the bride's heart refuses to cooperate with her father's plans.
Film
Deliver Us from Eva
A fiercely protective woman becomes the unlikely target of a man hired specifically to sweep her off her feet.
Film
Passionate Partners
A couple's reunion in an exotic location is shadowed by jealousy and a stranger whose missing girlfriend changes everything.
Film
Taiga Novel
In a remote border garrison, love and duty intertwine for men and women who came on assignment and never left.
Film
Naughty Couple
A stale marriage is detonated by a jealousy scheme that spirals hilariously beyond anyone's control.
Series
Player
Betrayed and pursued, a woman forced home must trust the very man entangled in the danger hunting her.
Series
Ika-6 na Utos
A devoted couple fights against a disapproving mother, testing whether love can survive family-imposed obstacles.
Series
Maison close
Women trapped in a gilded brothel navigate power, desire, and the possibility of escape on their own terms.
Series
Submission
A woman's fascination with an erotic novel draws her into a real and dangerously seductive entanglement with its author.
Series
Veronica's Closet
A romance-empire queen whose own marriage has crumbled must finally find the love she's been selling to others.
Series
Dirty Sexy Money
Old money, power plays, and scandalous secrets make the Darling family irresistible and impossible to look away from.
Series
Dangerous Queen
A woman caring for a troubled mother finds her quiet life upended by a relentless pursuer and a sudden reversal.
Game
The Royal Trap: The Confines Of The Crown
A prince's companion must navigate treacherous court politics to protect her charge from a dangerous royal snare.
Game
Variable Barricade
An heiress is ambushed by suitors chosen by her scheming grandfather, and resistance proves harder than expected.
Game
Ladykiller in a Bind
Forced to impersonate her twin brother, a woman must outmanoeuvre jealous rivals while concealing every truth about herself.
Game
Love, Money, Rock'n'Roll
A young man's ordinary life fractures when ghosts from a complicated past force impossible choices about love and loyalty.
Game
Confess My Love
A confession of love triggers unexpected complications when more than one person has skin in the outcome.
Game
Town of Sins
Beneath a prim Victorian veneer, a town seethes with hidden desires and the chaos of one outsider's arrival.
Game
3072 AD
A futuristic RPG that wraps power dynamics and submission themes inside a genre-bending speculative story.
Game
Loretta
A woman betrayed by her husband's infidelity is drawn into a psychological thriller where she becomes the dangerous one.
Book
The Disobedient Mistress (Sister Brides)
A woman in financial crisis must accept help from an arrogant Sicilian tycoon who wants far more than gratitude.
Book
Dark Master
A hasty marriage driven by humiliation forces two people to reckon with the difference between impulse and real feeling.
Book
Sensual Encounter
A woman who vowed never to trust again must decide whether a powerful man's love is worth the risk.
Book
Seed Of Vengeance (Harlequin Presents, No. 1445)
A man's outrageous ultimatum — marry him or lose everything — traps a woman between pride and desperate necessity.
Book
Bound by a Scandalous Secret
A fake engagement designed to survive the Season intact has an inconvenient habit of feeling increasingly real.
Book
The Millionaire's Seductive Revenge
A millionaire pursues his secretary the moment she's promised to another, forcing a game of desire and hidden motives.
Book
The Reluctant Fiancee
An ex-fiancée determined to stay immune discovers that resolve is much easier to declare than to actually keep.
Book
Savor The Seduction
A man drawn to a woman he believes is off-limits must weigh family legacy against what his heart knows.
Start with Submission, where a woman's obsession with an erotic novel leads her into a real and dangerous affair, or Maison close, a period drama about women navigating desire and power in nineteenth-century Paris — both share that mix of intensity and vulnerability.
Yes — The Royal Trap: The Confines of the Crown and Variable Barricade are visual novels built around high-stakes romantic intrigue, scheming families, and heroines who must outmanoeuvre everyone around them.
Look for Seed of Vengeance, The Disobedient Mistress, and The Reluctant Fiancee — all feature powerful, brooding men, heroines under economic or emotional pressure, and the slow collapse of carefully maintained resistance.