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81) Shelter Mountain
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Marine veteran John "Preacher" Middleton intimidates just about everyone who walks into his bar. But when an abused young mother comes in, seeking protection from her ex-husband, Preacher promises to become her guardian--and maybe something more.
82) Dune road
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Set in the beach community of a tony Connecticut town, our heroine is a single mom who works for a famous--and famously reclusive--novelist. When she stumbles on a secret that the great man has kept hidden for years, she knows that there are plenty of women in town who would love to get their hands on it--including some who fancy the writer for themselves.
Author
Language
English
Description
Desperate to escape London, single mother Zoe wants to build a new life for herself and her four-year-old son, Hari. She can barely afford the crammed studio apartment on a busy street where shouting football fans keep them awake all night, and Hari's dad, JAz, a charismatic but perpetually broke DJ, is no help at all. But his sister, Surinder, comes to Zoe's aid, hooking her up with a job as far away fromthe urban crush as possible: working at a...
84) Maid for love
Author
Series
Publisher
Zebra Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Maddie Chester is determined to leave Gansett Island, but when Mac McCarthy hits her with his car, seriously injuring her, and moves in to take care of her and her young son while she recovers, their newfound love gives them both a reason to stay.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In America, Mother = White. That's what Nefertiti, a single African American woman, discovered when she decided she wanted to adopt a Black baby boy out of the foster care system. Eager to finally join the motherhood ranks, Nefertiti was shocked when people started asking her why she wanted to adopt a 'crack baby' or said that she would never be able to raise a Black son on her own. She realized that American society saw motherhood through a white...
86) Hideaway Cove
Author
Series
Windfall Island novels volume 2
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
Arriving on Windfall Island to search for the missing heir to the Stanhope family fortune, Holden Abbot must protect single mother Jessi Randal and her son when evidence points to her as the heir, making them the target of a dangerous enemy.
Author
Series
Publisher
Louisiana State University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Penelope Lemon is a recent divorcée, closet Metallica fan, and accidental subversive to all the expectations of suburban motherhood. After ending her marriage with James, a woodsy intellectual who favors silky kimonos too short for his knobby knees, Penelope finds herself, at forty, living with her randy mother in her childhood home. Broke and desperate for work, she waitresses at Coonskins, a frontier-themed restaurant where the decor is heavy...
89) Spellbound Falls
Author
Series
Spellbound Falls volume 1
Publisher
Jove Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"Maximilian Oceanus arrives in Spellbound Falls just in time to save Olivia Baldwin from an overly aggressive suitor, only to find himself attracted to the beautiful, if rather aloof widow himself. And although Mac has come to Inglenook camp to get a handle on fatherhood, his newly discovered six-year-old son has set his sights on finding his father a wife"-provided by Publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Claudia Morgan is a single parent trying the best that she can, but her four-year-old son, Henry, is a handful. When Claudia hears about a school with an atypical teaching style, she has to visit. The Hawthorne School is good for Henry. But there's something a bit off about the school. When Henry brings home stories of ceremonies in the woods and odd rules, Claudia's instincts tell her that something isn't quite right, and she begins to realize she's...
Author
Series
Publisher
Montlake Romance
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"When Jackson St. James decided that six weeks in Vermonts Green Mountains would help him get his life together, he didnt anticipate replacing his craving for whiskey with a craving for his alluring new landlord, Gabby. Now, instead of prioritizing his sobriety and the resolution of the lawsuit threatening his business, hes making excuses to spend time with the spunky young landscaper whose candor is more than a little addictive. Gabby Bouchard refuses...
Author
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of Never Have I Ever comes the hair-raising story of a mother who moves herself and her daughter across the country to lose a dangerous stalker-only to discover that it will take more than distance to escape him"--
It started with the letters... For actress Meribel Mills, disturbing fan mail is part of the price of fame. So when she starts getting creepy letters written in fruit-scented marker she is mostly...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Lux is a single mom struggling to make her way in the world when she stumbles across an idyllic town in the Sonoma valley where she feels instantly at home. It seems like a place from another time--until she realizes it actually is. One night in 1906, an earthquake left Greengage stuck in the past. Lux must keep one foot in her world, raising her son as well as she can with the odds stacked against her, but every day she is more strongly drawn in...
Author
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
From the acclaimed author of "The Playdate" comes a gripping psychological thriller where one woman's streak of bad luck may be something far more sinister. Heralded as "a writer to watch" ("Booklist"), Millar skillfully layers suspense and twists in ...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"One phone call is all it takes to lure Mallory Aldiss back to her family's Rhode Island beach home. It's been twenty years since she's been gone - running from the scandal that destroyed her parents' marriage, drove her and her two sisters apart, and crushed her relationship with the love of her life, Jack Sabathian.Twenty years during which she lived in New York, building her career as a photographer and raising her now teenage daughter Joy. But...
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
"Grace Alban has spent more than twenty years avoiding her childhood home, the stately Alban House on the shores of Lake Superior, for reasons she would rather forget. But when her mother's unexpected death brings Grace and her teenage daughter back, she finds more is haunting the halls and passageways of Alban House than her own personal demons."-- P. [4] of cover.
99) Not quite dating
Author
Series
Not quite series volume 1
Publisher
Montlake Romance
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Waitress and single mom Jessica "Jessie" Mann doubts a carefree dreamer like Jack can provide the financial stability she needs. But she doesn't know that he is heir to the Morrison luxury hotel empire--and Jack's daring charade may rob him of the holiday wish he wants most of all.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"In the tradition of Zoe Heller's What Was She Thinking? Notes on a Scandal, a darkly sophisticated novel about an old woman's curiosity that turns into a dangerous obsession as she becomes involved in her new neighbor's complicated and cloaked life"--
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