single parent novels

Browse serialized novels tagged “single parent”. The first half of each series is free to read online.

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• My Husband Demanded a Paternity Test over Our Daughter's Red Hair, So I Left Him an Empty House
  

  An hour after giving birth to a red-haired baby girl, Lydia signs her husband's paternity form, then empties their house before the result is even read. The test proves him wrong, and the real reason for the red hair is the secret his mother demanded the test to bury.

  contemporary · secret parentage · single parent

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• I Left Pregnant and Swore She Wasn't His, Now He Wants the Truth
  

  I told my husband the baby wasn't his and drove out of his father's birthday party. Five years later I am back in Louisiana with a five-year-old who has his eyebrows, and a one-line Ledger on my phone says who owes whom.

  dramatic · contemporary · single parent

  32 chapters published

• He Left My Fever for His Ex, So I Took Our Daughter
  

  Leah collapsed with a 104-degree fever and her husband kissed her forehead and went to his ex-wife's apartment. Now she has taken their daughter and walked out, and the ex-wife holds more than his heart.

  dramatic · contemporary · single parent

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Keep It, We Don't Need It Anymore
  

  Her husband scores every family emergency from one to ten and only comes for a seven. When their daughter burns at 106 degrees he gives it a four, and walks his assistant into the same ER ahead of her.

  medical · dramatic · contemporary

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• He Left Me Pregnant at Her Funeral, Now His Son Needs Him
  

  Geneva Haskell was dumped at his ex's funeral without ever telling Vaughn Alden she was pregnant. Five years later their son needs a donor, and the only man who can save him is engaged to the sister who buried Geneva's name.

  contemporary · misunderstanding · single parent

  32 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• One Affair, One Divorce, No Way Back
  

  Miles thinks three years of cheating have bought him a civilized marriage, until his wife slides divorce papers under his coffee cup, already signed, and says she has met someone. He has no idea whose husband that someone is.

  dramatic · contemporary · single parent

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Bearing the Ruthless Alpha's Twins
  

  The future Alpha mocked the wolfless girl by day and took her to bed at the party. She woke alone, pregnant, and swore he would never know. Seven years later he walks into her kitchen and meets his twins.

  dramatic · contemporary · single parent

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Bearing the Ruthless Alpha's Twins
  

  The future Alpha mocked the wolfless girl by day and took her to bed at the party. She woke alone, pregnant, and swore he would never know. Seven years later he walks into her kitchen and meets his twins.

  dramatic · contemporary · single parent

  1 chapters published

• He Left My Daughter With His Ex, So I Left the Sea King
  

  The sea lord promised my daughter one day at the mortal market, then handed her to his ex, who put her in the harbor to see if she would drown. I packed one suitcase and walked out into his storm.

  amnesia · secret parentage · single parent

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• On Halloween, My Husband Kissed Another Woman in Front of Our Daughter, So We Left
  

  Lana sewed three pirate costumes for the school Halloween show. Her husband gave her gown to his best friend's widow and her place to the widow's son, then moved them into the house, sure she would forgive him again.

  dramatic · contemporary · secret parentage

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• He Made Us His Secret, So We Disappeared
  

  For eight years Naomi Hargrove was the secret wife of New York's most famous divorce lawyer. On their son's seventh birthday he chose another woman's cake, so she signed the papers and took the boy out of the city.

  dramatic · contemporary · single parent

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• On Halloween, My Husband Kissed His Mistress, and Our Daughter Chose Her Over Me
  

  At the school's Halloween Reading Night, Joanna watches her husband kiss his mistress on stage, in the dress she sewed by hand, while their eleven-year-old daughter takes the mistress's hand.

  contemporary · single parent · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• He Let Me Crash on Christmas Eve, So I Took Our Daughter
  

  Susannah called her husband from a wrecked car at thirty-three weeks pregnant, and he stayed to comfort his ex. Now she has taken their premature daughter and every door he could use, and the woman he chose is hiding why.

  dramatic · contemporary · single parent

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• My Husband Left Me in Labor for My Best Friend and Her Baby
  

  While nurses rushed Corrine into an emergency C-section, her husband carried their daughter's fox blanket down the hall to her best friend's delivery room. Hours later a photo showed him holding her baby in it, and this time Corrine did not beg.

  dramatic · contemporary · single parent

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• The Wife He Buried Alive
  

  Linnea Garrick watched her husband bury her empty coffin from behind an oak tree. Four years later their sick son needs the one match on earth, the man who left her to drive home alone, and she walks into his boardroom with divorce papers nine days before his wedding.

  contemporary · single parent · female lead

  32 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• He Called Our Night a Mistake, So I Raised His Daughter Without Him
  

  Seven years ago her brother's best friend called their one night a mistake in front of his whole squad. Now he is standing at the back of her daughter's school assembly, and the girl on stage has his eyes.

  contemporary · forbidden love · single parent

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Car Crash Neglect Christmas Divorce
  

  On Christmas Eve, thirty-three weeks pregnant and bleeding in a wrecked car, Claire calls her husband and he tells her to go with the paramedics because he is at urgent care with his ex. She files for divorce before the baby leaves the hospital.

  contemporary · single parent · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• The Clinic Swore the Baby Was His, So He Stayed When It Wasn't
  

  A Duluth bridge operator is told the clinic inseminated her with a tug captain's banked sample, and the captain who says he will have a say turns out to be the voice she has loved on the harbor radio for three years; when the paternity test says the baby was never his, he stays anyway.

  contemporary · single parent · female lead

  24 chapters published

• He Banned a Baby in Our Contract, Then Found His Daughter
  

  Millie Dwyer walked out of a twelve-month arrangement with Lorcan Hann the day she saw the plus sign, because clause seven told her what he would do. Ten months later he walks into her outport shop and sees his own eyebrow on her baby.

  contemporary · single parent · female lead

  24 chapters published

• After My Miscarriage, My Husband Locked Me Out
  

  Audrey comes home from the hospital after losing her baby and finds her husband blocking the door of her own house, so his dead best friend's widow can have a party. She doesn't argue. She calls a lawyer and asks her sister for a suitcase.

  contemporary · single parent · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• They Threw Us in the Snow. I Owned Everything.
  

  On Christmas Eve her husband served her divorce papers, her best friend wore her dead grandmother's ring, and her mother-in-law locked her and her seven-year-old in the snow with the inhaler inside. None of them knew the money they were begging for was hers.

  dramatic · contemporary · forbidden love

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• I Overpacked for the Apocalypse, So My Daughter Invited the Street
  

  A father comes back eleven days before a gas cloud fills his river town and plans the end of the world as a family road trip for two. His grown daughter, who drives a school bus for a living, keeps handing his supplies and his seats to the neighbors he never trusted.

  contemporary · survival · single parent

  24 chapters published

• My Son's Father Is the Wrong Brother
  

  Rosemary's three-year-old needs a donor, and the only man who can give him a safe one is the brother of her fiance. She offers Timothy Hargrove a marriage and a second child, and love is not in the terms.

  dramatic · contemporary · secret parentage

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• He Gave Her My Hospital Wing
  

  A NICU nurse spends three years and $38 million building a hospital wing for preemies, and her billionaire husband pulls the drape off a name that isn't hers. She takes their daughter to her father's shrimp dock and goes back to work nights in the wing with the wrong name.

  medical · contemporary · single parent

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• My Husband Left Me in Labor to Be My Best Friend's Groom, So I Prepared for His Return
  

  The day Emmeline gave birth, her husband stood at the altar with her best friend. The groom she jilted watched it all, and Emmeline changed the lock code before he ever came home.

  dramatic · contemporary · single parent

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• You Had This Divorce Coming
  

  Elise's husband skipped their daughter's first month to throw another woman's baby a party, and he gave away her family heirloom at it. She slapped him, took it back and filed for divorce, and then he came to ask for her breast milk.

  dramatic · contemporary · secret parentage

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• They Rejected My Daughter
  

  Ruby Sharples placed first in the district math qualifier and was still cut from her school's team for a girl nobody had heard of. Her mother did not file a complaint. She quietly moved Ruby to another school, and the principal began to call.

  dramatic · contemporary · single parent

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Six Weeks After Giving Birth, I Discovered His Affair and Left With Our Son
  

  Six weeks after Libby gave birth, her husband told her to learn to manage the baby alone while he worked in Denver. A stranger's breakfast photo showed him kissing another woman nine minutes from home, and she left that night with their son.

  dramatic · contemporary · single parent

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• He Gave Me $18, So I Left Him with Nothing
  

  Every first Sunday, my husband slid a gold scratch-off card across his mother's table and let his whole family watch me read my allowance. This month it said $18.40, and my four-year-old was sitting beside me.

  contemporary · single parent · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• The Night I Gave My Best Friend's Brother a Child
  

  Bailey's best friend says her wounded brother can never have kids. Then Bailey meets him and sees the face of her daughter's father.

  dramatic · contemporary · single parent

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free