Virginia Nelson | Five Reasons to Fall in Love with a Single Mother

In my new release, THE PENTHOUSE PRINCE, the heroine ends up in a faked engagement with a billionaire—a trope I’ve personally read and loved before. But Jeanie is a single mother, a woman very good at telling the difference between make believe and reality because she spends her days with a small child. So what could a rich man like Camden James see in a woman like her?

In honor of Janie, I figured I’d list five good reasons to fall in love with a single mother.

5. She’s not afraid of things getting messy.

A single mother has been there when the child gets sick, and she’s not afraid of scraped knees. She’s played nurse at three am after working all day, and she’s used to sucking it up when she really kind of would rather crumple and cry. It is very, very hard to shake the unshakeable foundation of a woman who has gone toe-to-toe with an overtired two year old in a cereal aisle, something any parent, single or not, can vouch for. Actually, as a pet parent, I think just about any caretaker can verify…once you’ve been in the trenches, most things just don’t scare you anymore. Unflappable? Yes, the single mother can do unflappable.

4. She’s not impressed by money.

She’s too used to it coming in and going right back out the door again. Money is something you earn and you pay back out again—not something that holds any long term value. Love? Love matters.

3. She’s not scared of taking risks.

Every day is a risk. Putting her child on a bus is a risk. Getting in a car and driving is a risk. Every moment of every day, she could lose the one thing that matters—the one thing she’s fought so very long to protect. Risk? Pssht. Bring it.

2. She’s used to doing without sleep and working hard.

Overtime? Double time? Let’s talk all the time. This break thing you speak of…where does one sign up for one of those?

1. She’s loyal to family.

A single mother understands the value of loyalty and dedication to family. She’s got a job that requires constant and ever-present dedication, her family is her life. If she gives you that loyalty and brings you into her inner circle, she’s carving out precious time she could be sleeping. Could be spending with her child. Could be eating or showering. If a single mother gives you her time, you’re important and she’s counted you among family, so that loyalty has extended to you…and that is a gift more precious than diamonds.

About PENTHOUSE PRINCE

Single mom Jeanie Long was trying to save her butt at work by reporting her manager to the company owner. Instead, she finds herself greeted warmly by gorgeous company CEO Camden James...and introduced to his father as his fiancée. Now she's been hired—complete with a hefty pay raise—to be the fake fiancée of the infamous “Penthouse Prince.”

Camden doesn't believe in love. He believes in mutually beneficial business arrangements. With his real fiancée off cheating on him, Camden needs someone to help him prove to his father that he's definitely ready to marry. Yet Jeanie's combination of beauty and bluntness act like an aphrodisiac, and their “for the press” kisses look incredibly real. So real that Jeanie and Camden are either really convincing actors...or they've fallen for their own charade.

About Virginia Nelson

Virginia Nelson believed them when they said, “Write what you know.” Small town girl writing small town romance, her characters are as full of flaws, misunderstandings, and flat out mistakes as Virginia herself. When she’s is not writing or plotting to take over the world, she likes to hang out with the greatest kids in history, play in the mud, drive far too fast, and scream at inanimate objects.

Virginia likes knights in rusted and dinged up armor, heroes that snarl instead of croon, and heroines who can’t remember to say the right thing even with an author writing their dialogue. Her books are full of snark, sex, and random acts of ineptitude—not always in that order.