A fifteen-year-old prostitute rents a beautiful blue dress from her landlord in order to attract a higher class of clientele. While working to support her fragile only child, she also secures bodies for a local medical doctor's...
Single mothers
- Author:Holman, SheriSummary:
- Author:Phillips, DeloresSummary:
Fourteen-year-old Tangy Mae tells of the brutal physical and mental abuse that her mother inflicts on her and her ten siblings.
- Author:Day, DianSummary:
Esa Withrod is a young woman struggling over recent events in her personal life—a failed first relationship and resulting pregnancy—as well as the legacy of her desolate upbringing. Eccentric and enigmatic, Esa’s childhood has prepared...
- Author:Hinck, SharonSummary:
After teaching for 15 years, Amy earns an open flute chair in the Minneapolis Symphony. But a rash of mysterious mishaps jeopardizes the single mom's dream job and her promising new relationship with the conductor.
- Author:Toews, MiriamSummary:
Lucy Von Alstyne sends fictitious letters to her friend Alicia, pretending to be the father of Alicia's twins, and the two welfare mothers and their five children set off on a journey to find him, facing along the way the...
- Author:Bergen, DavidSummary:
Íso, a young Guatemalan woman, works at a fertility clinic at Ixchel, in the highlands of the Sierra Madre de Chiapas. She tends to the rich northern women who visit the clinic hoping that the waters of the nearby lake might increase...
- Author:Poole, Daaimah S.Summary:
Nikki's life was a wreck--three years wasted with a deadbeat boyfriend, and then a huge fight with her best friend Tia. Now, with a promotion at work and a loving new man--who respects her--life is finally going as planned. Until...
- Author:HAY, DonnaSummary:
What do you do as a single parent when your kids don't want to share you with anyone else - except the person you least want? Story of love and families, and learning to live with the cards you've been dealt, and moving on...
- Author:Greco, HeidiSummary:
Aside from the fact that she was born with bright orange hair, Reggie has always felt pretty ordinary. She works as a supermarket cashier, and her life as a single mother isn’t exactly what she’d wanted. But just when things start going...
- Author:Ruddock, JesseSummary:
Rachel is a young single mother living with her son, Tristan, on a lake that borders the unchannelled north--remote, nearly inhospitable. She does what she has to do to keep them alive. But soon, and unexpectedly, Tristan will have to...
- Author:Sweeney, LeannSummary:
The thought of working with a hot-shot producer and her TV crew is about as appealing to Abby as sticking her hand in a bucket of leeches. But "Reality Check" is a program that claims to turn American dreams into the real...
- Author:STEEL, DanielleSummary:
Can love conquer all? Kate and Tom are the original star-crossed lovers. Kate is a beautiful model; Tom a successful football star at the peak of his career. It seems as though nothing can come between them. Together, they are...
- Author:Campbell, SashaSummary:
Single mother Monica Houston must keep her new job as an exotic dancer secret from her ex-husband and new boyfriend if she wants to keep her children, while fellow dancer Treasure takes in her young nephew after her sister is arrested...
- Author:Dumont, DawnSummary:
Rose Okanese, a single mother with two kids, has been pushed into a corner by Rez citizens to claim some self-respect, and decides that the fastest way to do that is to run the reserve's annual marathon. Though Rose hasn't run in twenty...
- Author:Bryan, AliSummary:
Claudia, single mom of two, pines for her past independent life. Her ex, after all, has moved on to a new wardrobe, new hobbies and—worst of all—new adult friends. But in Claudia's house she's still finding bananas in the sock drawer,...
- Author:Ashley, KristenSummary:
Once upon a time, Carissa Teodoro believed in happy endings--until she woke up to the ugly truth about her Prince Charming. Now a struggling, single mom and stranded by a flat tire, Carissa's pondering her mistakes when a vaguely...
- Author:Miller, EmmaSummary:
"With nowhere to turn, penniless widow Grace Yoder travels with her young son to the Amish community of Seven Poplars. She hopes to reunite with the Plain father she never knew-and become part of the community. Though her father is...
- Author:Dames, Jamise L.Summary:
For seven years, Daisy Parker has been Jasper's lover and mother to Jay, his nine-year-old son. But when Jasper doesn't come home one too many nights, Daisy decides she's had enough. But Jasper hasn't been partying--...
- Author:Decoste, DanielleSummary:
La plupart du temps, devenir enceinte, c’est voulu et planifié. Mais lorsqu’on a 18 ans et qu’on ne veut pas du père, est-ce qu’on peut tout de même commencer cette vie du bon pied? C’est ce que Marie-Ève Beauchamp tentera de faire. La...
- Author:Brooks, CarellinSummary:
Did she say, at the beginning, that it rained every day? She was wrong. She misspoke. She didn’t mean it.... No. It did not rain every day. But it rained for a hundred days, that year, which was enough—more than enough, even.In prose by...