single mothers

Overworked and underappreciated, single mom Amy Byler needs a break. So when the guilt-ridden husband who abandoned her shows up and offers to take care of their kids for the summer, she accepts his offer and escapes rural Pennsylvania for New York City. Usually grounded and mild mannered, Amy finally lets her hair down in the city that never sleeps. She discovers a life filled with culture, sophistication, and; with a little encouragement from her friends a few blind dates. When one man in particular makes quick work of Amy's heart, she risks losing herself completely in the unexpected escape, and as the summer comes to an end, Amy realizes too late that she must make an impossible decision: stay in this exciting new chapter of her life, or return to the life she left behind.

"Single mother Kate Reese is on the run. Determined to improve life for her and her son, Christopher, she flees an abusive relationship in the middle of the night with Christopher at her side. Together, they find themselves drawn to the tight-knit community of Mill Grove, Pennsylvania. It's as far off the beaten track as they can get. Just one highway in, one highway out. At first, it seems like the perfect place to finally settle down. Then Christopher vanishes. For six awful days, no one can find him. Until Christopher emerges from the woods at the edge of town, unharmed but not unchanged. He returns with a voice in his head only he can hear, with a mission only he can complete: Build a tree house in the woods by Christmas, or his mother and everyone in the town will never be the same again. Soon Kate and Christopher find themselves in the fight of their lives, caught in the middle of a war playing out between good and evil, with their small town as the battleground"--Provided by publisher.

Emma London thought she didn't have anything in common with her grandmother Genevieve. Genevieve had a hard life with the disappearance of her son and the death of her husband. She took in Emma when her own mother died--until Emma got pregnant her senior year of high school. After being kicked out, Emma built up a successful life on her own. But when her grandmother calls asking for help, Emma must decide what to do.

When a single mother hears a rumor outside her son's school, she never intends to pass it on. But one casual comment leads to another . . . and now there's no going back. Rumor has it that a notorious killer, a woman who has been released from prison years after her brutal crime, is living under a new identity in Joanna's seaside town. So who is the supposedly reformed murderer now living in their neighborhood? Suspicion falls on everyone. As Joanna becomes obsessed with the case, her curiosity will expose her son and his father to a heartless psychopath who has killed--and may kill again. And she will learn how dangerous one rumor can become . . . and just how far she must go to protect those she loves from harm. She is going to regret the day she ever said a word.

After the death of Grandma June, Giovanna, Keyah, and Fatima are shocked to learn she has left them each a sizable inheritence, but in order to claim their riches, each of her granddaughters must first marry their children's fathers.

Maggie, a frontierswoman in the 19th century American West, must accept the help of her estranged father when her daughter is snatched by a hooded phantom.

Dr. Eric Prince, a reputed ladies' man, believes he has found a woman to settle down with when he meets nurse and single mom Sasha Michaels, but Sasha, having lived with the stigma of a failed teenage marriage and a drug addicted mother in small-town Huntersville, Virginia, is not sure it is a good idea to get involved with the charming doctor.

Twelve-year-old Hershey must deal with a new set of problems after her mother, escaping from her abusive boyfriend, takes the family to live across town in a women's shelter, and Hershey's journals and Cheez Doodles are her only constants.

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