Romancing the Weekend: Single Parent Romance

Nothing is easy for the single parent. Along with the personal emotional conflict of a broken relationship, there’s the problems associated with a new love relationship.

Then there are the parental responsibilities, worries, and conflicts about school, possibly new neighborhoods, new friends, and so many other problems unique to single parents.

LUCINDA RACE

A widowed school teacher and the airline pilot whose little girl is determined to bring her daddy and the lady from the ice cream shop together for a second chance at love.

Although her husband died a year ago, first grade school teacher Lisa Peck is keeping one tradition she shared with him: sundaes every Sunday at their special place, Seaside Scoops. It’s there that she meets a precocious five-year-old, Allie, and her handsome, dark-haired father, Hunter.

Airline pilot Hunter Adams has been a single dad since his wife died when Allie was a baby. He has his life perfectly arranged. Allie stays with her grandparents during the week while he flies, then he spends weekends with his daughter, including taking her for sweet treats at Seaside Scoops. But Allie has never before been drawn to someone as quickly as she’s drawn to Lisa. Is it just a little girl interested in a pretty woman, or is it fate pulling Lisa and Hunter together?

Lisa is cautious, but maybe it’s time to move on from the past and take a second chance on love. Everyone is encouraging Hunter to do the same, but will Lisa think he’s just trying to find a mother for his child? Maybe Allie is wiser than the adults in her life. Will their sundaes on Sunday lead to true love every day of the week?

Dutiful. Loyal. Honorable. Workaholic banker Jackson Breckinridge has spent his life meeting his parents’ expectations and protecting his younger brother, the reckless kid who fathered a child then abandoned him.

Now his younger brother has died. Jack is determined protect his family’s honor by offering a marriage of convenience to the boy’s mother, a woman he’s secretly loved since their school-days. Being both mom and dad to her son is hard, but is Alex willing to give up her hard-won independence for his sake? And what is Jack willing to do to win the heart of this spirited Kentucky woman?

SWEET SLOW SIZZLE

Bangers Tavern’s hunky bouncer Jojo Williams has been flirting with server Lana Lopez for three years, but she dismisses him as a trifling joker. Determined to penetrate her prickly defenses, he plunges into the hot mess that keeps her from dating. If he screws this up, his heart and hers won’t be the only ones broken.

Orphaned by a car wreck at twenty-two, Lana must keep her teen brothers on track and together in the home they grew up in. One more slip-up, and her interfering tías will separate the boys. The last thing Lana needs is a big goof like Jojo meddling with her fragile family.

But when the teens’ shenanigans land them in trouble, Jojo may be the only person who can save them from the wrath of the tías. Lana’s growing attraction to the gentle giant makes it harder and harder to shut him out, but loving him is a gamble that could cost her everything.

Come back to Bangers Tavern for a slow burn, sizzling hot, friends to lovers workplace romance full of laughs, steam, and the glorious chaos of 21st century family—the ones we’re born into, and the ones we gather to our hearts.

Erin MacKenna is a single mom and a third-grade teacher in the Abraham Lincoln primary school in Eden Prairie, Indiana. One crazy night of indiscretion resulted in the most wonderful gift she’d ever been given, her daughter Danielle. Not wanting to damage her daughter of a preacher’s reputation, she tells everyone she was artificially inseminated.

Caleb Hughes Thompson, owner of Hughes Department Stores, the business-driven world is shattered when he receives a letter written by his recently deceased brother. Daniel thrived on high adventure and lived each day as if it were his last. His dying wish is to have Caleb locate his daughter, resulting from a one-night stand. He was to start his search in Eden Prairie, Indiana.

Caleb needs someone to help plan their in-store holiday promotion, Santa Traditions. A teacher in the primary school would qualify to help him. It would also be the perfect place to start searching for his niece.

Hey, Readers! DANIELLE’S CHRISTMAS WISH is on sale for $1.99 through December 2022, and the author has a Reader Bonus in this book: the Short Story: Danielle’s Snowy Wish.