Many of you said that you would prefer to date a single parent for a whole bunch of reasons. Maybe you are a single parent, and you think that another single parent is the only person who could understand what you’re going through? Or perhaps you are not a parent, but you’re looking for a single parent because you think that that experience will give somebody a higher level of understanding.
Don’t assume that because someone’s a single parent, they have qualities that make them a better partner. It’s not true. Someone who’s a great partner can be childless, and somebody who’s a parent can be a crappy partner. The only reason that you should be dating a single parent is that you have the capability of loving them and loving their children. There is no other meaning to be put on a person being a parent.
10 Single Parent Romance Books
The only reason to date somebody who’s a single parent is because you want to get to know them, and you want to get to know their kids. That’s everything. If you can love them and you can love their kids. That is the exact right reason to date a single parent. Now I am going to review 10 single parent romance books for you. Let’s go!
1. Ghosted
It is a second chance single-parent romance. So this follows Kennedy and Jonathan. They used to be each other’s everything. They were very much in love when they were younger, and now they hardly know each other. So this book is told in a dual timeline.
You’re getting flashbacks of the past and what Jonathan did because he messed things up. Then you’re getting the present where Jonathan is desperately trying to reconcile things with Kennedy. Also, he wants to get to know his daughter, so he leaves Kennedy with his daughter.
In the present day, Jonathan is a huge, popular actor. Jonathan wants to get to know his daughter. You can see how sorry he is and how he wants to make things better. Kennedy was so strong that Jonathan had been gone living out his dreams this whole time. She was back home taking care of their daughter, and she was an amazing mother. So, it is an emotional and sexy single parent romance I have ever read.
Author: J. M. Darhower
Average Customer Review: (4.5 out of 5, on Amazon)
Category: Contemporary Romance
Available: Audiobook | Paperback | Kindle | Audio CD
2. Down Too Deep (Dirty Deeds)
In this one, both main characters are single parents. So our hero, Nathan, has lost his wife, and he is now the sole guardian to their daughter. He’s a workaholic. He owns a restaurant and manages this restaurant, so he works twenty-four seven. So he and his daughter don’t have a relationship. He is very content to let his parents raise his daughter. At the beginning of this book, his mom comes to him and says, no more. You need to figure this out. So because he’s a workaholic and owns his own business, he runs that business.
Nathan desperately needs someone to help him. Then Jenna is a single mom to twins. It’s a boy and a girl. So there’s Oliver and Olive. It happens to be pretty perfect because Jenna comes into the restaurant and sees that mate is struggling with Marley, and she works from home.
So she offers to help take care of her, and with the help of Jenna, Nathan can form a connection with his daughter and not only a connection with his daughter, but a connection with Jenna’s twins. So they formed this cute little family, and this book was adorable. Both Jenna and Nathan have a hard past, and they both so deserved each other.
Author: J. Daniels
Average Customer Review: (4.7 out of 5, on Amazon)
Category: Romantic Comedy, Fiction Sagas
Available: Audiobook | Paperback | Kindle
3. A Nordic King (Nordic Royals)
This book follows Aurora, a young nanny, looking for a new job. She never dreamt that she would ever get the chance to be a nanny to two princesses in Denmark. But on her first day, she meets their father, Aksel. Aksel is cold and moody. He’s very much a jerk, but he has had a rough time, especially in the present. When Aurora and Aksel meet, they go head to head like she does not back down from him whatsoever. Over time, they form a connection that is full of passion and tension, and it’s so intense, but it’s also forbidden.
Aurora has a past that could potentially tear them apart. This book is a slow burn. It’s so full of love, the relationship that Aurora develops with his daughters, and over time, you see him become more involved in their lives, too. It was so sweet in the way that he was able to forgive Aurora for her past. Then the way he was able to forgive himself for his past.
Author: Karina Halle
Average Customer Review: (4.4 out of 5, on Amazon)
Category: Contemporary Romance
Available: Audiobook | Paperback | Kindle | Audio CD
4. Show Me the Way (Fight for Me)
This follows Rex, a single father to a daughter, to whom he devotes all of his free time. Then you have our heroine, Raynna. She moved away from her small town. She could not get out of there quick enough. But after the death of her grandmother, she moves back to her hometown, and she and Rex become neighbors.
At first, Rex wants absolutely nothing to do with Raynna, but that doesn’t stop Raynna. She’s very persistent, and she digs herself deeper and deeper under his skin. So when Rex sees Raynna and how she is with his daughter, his heart slowly starts to melt for her. Moreover, he realizes that he doesn’t have to go out alone that not every woman he meets will screw him over.
So you see Rex go from this grumpy, very standoffish hero to someone who is finally willing to admit his feelings and open his heart to love again. There’s also an element of suspense in this one, too.
Author: A.L. Jackson
Average Customer Review: (4.5 out of 5, on Amazon)
Category: Romantic Suspense
Available: Audiobook | Paperback | Kindle
5. The Last Letter
This is an emotional, tragic ride, so be prepared to cry in this one. Beckett serves in the military. In addition, he is serving alongside his best friend, Ryan. Beckett and our heroine Ella meet through her brother, Ryan. So Beckett doesn’t have any family. He doesn’t have anyone that writes to him.
Ella takes it upon herself to write to him, becoming pen pals. Beckett and Ryan go on a mission at the beginning of this book, and Ryan doesn’t return. But in his last letter, hence the title of the book, Ryan writes to Beckett and says, Please take care of Ella like she needs someone.
So then there’s Ella, and Ella is a single mom to twins, a boy, and a girl. She has not had a very easy life. The parents of the twin’s dad didn’t want anything to do with them. So she has raised these two kids on her own, and she has fought for everything in her life. Also, her fight is still going on because her daughter has been diagnosed with cancer.
Ella is very independent, and when Beckett shows up, she is very reluctant to take his help. But Beckett is persistent, and he will not let his friend down. This book is emotional, and it is full of tragedy.
Author: Rebecca Yarros
Average Customer Review: (4.7 out of 5, on Amazon)
Category: Contemporary Fantasy Fiction
Available: Audiobook | Paperback | Mass Market Paperback | Kindle | Audio CD
6. The Gravity of Us (Elements)
Graham Russell is a single parent, and he is struggling with it. So our heroine comes and helps him, and they fall in love in the process. He’s very damaged and brooding, and she’s a happy, sunshine character. She owns a flower shop. So this one is such an emotional trigger warning for the death of a loved one in here.
Then we have Eleanor Grey, which is a second chance romance. They were together when they were younger, and she gets a babysitting job, and it’s with Grey. He is such a different person than he was before. Again, we have a damaged hero, very hardened and closed off, and he needs a nanny for his kids. So she’s the nanny for his kids, then they end up falling in love again. Brittany Cherry is great at emotions.
Author: Brittainy Cherry
Average Customer Review: (4.7 out of 5, on Amazon)
Category: New Adult & College Romance
Available: Audiobook | Paperback | Kindle | MP3 CD
7. Let Me Love You (McClain Brothers)
It is about two single parents romance. McClain is a rap star, Jo Walker works for a jeweler, and they both have kids. Also, they both end up falling for each other. McClain decides that he wants her, and they meet, and they don’t hit it off very well at all. Walker hates him thinks he’s a womanizer. He’s got like someone in bed next to him because she’s delivering jewelry, and he accuses her of being her boss.
Then the second book (Let Me Hold You) of this series is about Kimberly, the mother of a basketball star. So she’s thirty-five, and her son is 20. She had a very young and he’s an NBA player. Further, he meets her at this center for youth, and they put on little programs for kids to come in and do things.
So there was a basketball program, and our hero came, and they liked each other. There are trigger warnings for abuse, though she’s been in many abusive relationships, and her son has had to see that. So he’s super overprotective of her. She has to hide her new relationship from her son.
Author: Alexandria House
Average Customer Review: (4.8 out of 5, on Amazon)
Category: Black & African American Romance Fiction
Available: Audiobook | Paperback | Kindle | Audio CD
8. Look the Part
Flint Hopkins is a lawyer. He lost his wife, and he feels it’s his fault, and he has an autistic son who is amazing. He is renting out a place in his building. The woman who rents it out is a music therapist. He didn’t understand what music therapy was, and it’s noisy, and he hates it.
So he keeps on trying to kick her out. Then his son starts learning the guitar from her and takes a shine to her. You will love the single parent love story of this, and the kid was such a great part of the plot and so authentic.
Author: Jewel E. Ann
Average Customer Review: (4.6 out of 5, on Amazon)
Category: Romantic Comedy
Available: Audiobook | Paperback | Kindle | Audio CD
9. Inevitable Conclusions (Inevitable)
Our heroine, Kora, had a daughter, and she’s a grown adult. Kora is in her late thirties, and this is a second chance romance between her and someone that’s her best friend. Tariq is pretty much an uncle figure to her daughter. They had a fling when they were in their early twenties. But they were too jealous, too young, and it didn’t work.
They haven’t gotten back together until they decide to give it a second chance. Kora works at the theater, and she’s a choreographer, producer, director, and her daughter’s in theater as well. We got her daughter’s in book three in the series.
Author: Christina C. Jones
Average Customer Review: (4.8 out of 5, on Amazon)
Category: Erotic Fiction
Available: Audiobook | Paperback | Kindle | Audio CD
10. One Hot Italian Summer
Our heroine loses her writing partner, and she’s writing by herself for the first time and can’t. She doesn’t have confidence in herself, and she’s still grieving over her best friend. Her publicist agent sends her off to a villa in Italy to write her romances get inspired a little. Someone’s staying at that villa, and it is a man and his son. Also, it’s her romance with that man. She’s living with them because he doesn’t decide to kick her out.
It’s forbidden because there is a connection between the man staying there and her agent. If you love a holiday romance, something about a writer, you will enjoy this single parent romance.
Author: Karina Halle
Average Customer Review: (4.4 out of 5, on Amazon)
Category: Family Life Fiction
Available: Audiobook | Paperback | Kindle | Audio CD
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