single mothers

Beth Crandall's life was falling apart; her six-year-old daughter, Charlotte, was suffering from an unidentifiable illness; her marriage transformed from a seemingly happy and loving relationship to one full of betrayal and pain; her job was increasingly at risk and she had lost her ability to trust, to hope, or to believe in herself. Then, on Christmas day, Beth encountered Matthew.

Gustine, a fifteen-year-old prostitute in nineteenth-century England, agrees to procure the dead bodies of victims of the bubonic plague for surgeon Henry Chiver to use in his anatomy school in exchange for his care of her baby boy, who was born with a remarkable anatomical defect, but her loyalty to the doctor is challenged by his growing greed and his obsession with the child.

Martha Tod Dudman discusses how she dealt with her daughter's drug addiction.

Paige Lassiter shows up at John Middleton's bar one night covered in bruises, prompting the ex-marine to protect her and her young son against her vicious ex-husband.

Nick Russo, pediatric plastic surgeon and husband of Tessa, a stay-at-home mom, is called in to treat a six-year-old burn victim; but as he becomes involved in the case, he also finds himself attracted to the child's mother, Valerie.

Discusses the reasons some poor single mothers have children before focusing on marriage, despite the economic and societal risks, based on discussions with 162 low-income women.

Hired as a construction worker by the virile Matt Hallahan, single mom Lizabeth Kane finds herself falling in love with her boss, in spite of their many differences.

Patty Taylor, singer in a traveling jazz/blues band, struggles to live her own life free of two negative forces: her alcoholic, emotionally abusive mother and the father of her two-year-old son, whom she once genuinely loved, who once saved her from her mother, and who has just been released from prison.

The discovery of a small blue rubber shoe and other trifles left years ago in her deceased father's car, sends Mattie Ryder and her brother on a quest to uncover the secrets of their childhood, and brings Mattie, in the throes of divorce and single motherhood, to a new understanding of her parents and herself.

As Denise struggles to raise her two sons, run a business, and start a relationship with a new man, she feels her life is complicated enough, but when both of her sons' fathers decide they want to take a more active role in their sons' lives, Denise finds herself balancing more than she can handle.