Books like Instant Mother by Emma Richmond

An orphan with Tourette's teams up with a trio of street‑smart boys to run a low‑budget detective agency in Brooklyn—only to find himself embroiled in a murder mystery after their mobster boss is killed.

When Georgia Nielsen agrees to be a surrogate for a mysterious tycoon, she finds herself stranded on a remote Greek island, pursued by the brooding master who holds her—and the business titan's future—constrained.

A timely collection of essays by Rebecca Solnit that examines gender, feminism, misogyny, and the cultural treatment of women with sharp insight and humor.

Abby Loretto becomes a surrogate for a Mediterranean royal couple. When Prince Vincenzo is widowed and carries Abby’s baby, their growing attraction forces Abby to confront royal protocol and her own commoner status.

When business tycoon Gabriel Gannon asks effective negotiator Bobbie Fairchild to pose as his fiancé, they must fake chemistry to secure custody of his children and create a new life together.

Three sisters, adopted after a wartime romance, are reunited across Paris, New York, and Appalachia, where secrets and tragic truths challenge family bonds.

When Amy Deveraux agrees to babysit her godson, she forces an unlikely partnership with his handsome uncle, Nick Everton—whose bachelor life may soon end as they turn the temporary arrangement into something more.

A widowed Amish man's love for a widow captivates the community.

The Good... Brogan Carpenter isn't used to men like Joshua Baynard. What does this tall, dangerously sexy hunk want with her - a widow with a young baby? The Bad... Babies just aren't on Joshua Baynard's agenda. But Brogan is - too bad she's part of a package deal... And the Baby! Riffy doesn't remember her daddy, but Joshua seems a perfect substitute. And the more than one-year-old calls him "Dad-dad", the more Joshua begins to realize there's a first time for everything - even fatherhood! BABY BOOM: Because two's company and three's family!

In *Mothering Sunday*, Graham Swift traces the life of orphaned maid Jane Fairchild, whose years of service in an English country house and secret affair with the neighboring estate’s heir span from 1924 to the end of the twentieth century.

Angie Bursten and single father Rick Jameson fall for each other while Angie pretends to be Rick’s girlfriend to help him gain custody of his daughter Carly. What starts as a hoax turns into a heartfelt romance.

Earl Gideon Redgrave battles love, loyalty, and a secret society threat while fighting custody over his nephew and the fierce Jessica Linden, a young widow who turns from adversary to ally—and heart—before their family is doomed.

Former rodeo star turned family‑law attorney faces a courtroom showdown when her childhood sweetheart becomes a rival counsel over a child‑custody case, stirring old feelings and a hidden secret.

Ellie Winston must find a husband in a day to adopt her late friend’s baby, but the unexpected business partnership with cut‑throat billionaire Finn McKenna turns into a forced, emotional marriage that forces both of them to confront their reluctance to commit.

Photojournalist Jessie Ryder returns to her Texas hometown to confront the daughter she gave away sixteen years earlier, forcing her sister Luz and her family to reexamine love, loyalty, and the bonds that hold them together.

A rugged carpenter builds a nursery and stumbles into unexpected fatherhood with adoptive mother Sara Parker, exploring the complexities of love and commitment in a modern family.

Ask any woman whose mother has died and she will tell you that she is irrevocably altered, as profoundly changed by her mother's death as she was by her mother's life. And although a mother's mortality is as inevitable as nightfall, no other book has addressed the lasting effects of this incalculable loss. First published more than a decade ago and now available in this updated edition, Motherless Daughters is still the book that women of all ages look to for understanding and comfort when their mothers die, and it is the book that they continue to press into each other's hands. Building on interviews with hundreds of mother-loss survivors, this life-affirming book is newly expanded to reflect the author's personal experience with the continued legacy of mother loss. Now married and a mother of young children herself, Hope Edelman better understands how the effects of mother loss change over time and in light of new relationships. This groundbreaking book interweaves the author's own story with those of hundreds of women across the U.S. Their words express how growing up without a mother continues to affect their relationships with others and themselves.

A widowed reverend buys Virgin River's abandoned church and teams with brassy single mother Alicia Baldwin to restore the building—and each other’s lives.

Widowed Navy SEAL Jax Graham bonds with the spirited single mother Pickett Sessoms while caring for his scared son Tyler, navigating duty, love, and the challenges of custody and single parenthood in the United States.

In Brooklyn, a tight‑knit group of new moms—the May Mothers—meet for support and fun. On a Fourth of July night, one baby disappears, thrusting the women into a frightening hunt that unearths hidden secrets and tests their bonds.