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* The ''Literature/AcornaSeries'' trilogy ends with Acorna finding out she's pregnant. Somewhat sinisterly, we also find out that She ''was'' carrying twins, and one of them was stolen by Greymalkin.
* In the ''Literature/AgeOfFire'' books, the first novel ends with the dragon [=AuRon=] settling down with Natasatch, lovingly embracing around a clutch of eggs. In the last novel, set decades later, the novel ends with his now-pregnant sister Wistala and her mate [=DharSii=] flying off to their home cave.
* The epilogue of ''Literature/TheAliceNetwork'' features Charlie and Finn’s daughter. Justified: The mother in question was pregnant for the entire book, although it took her some time to decide whether to keep the baby.
* ''Literature/AnansiBoys'' plays this straight with Charlie and Daisy's son, but subverts it with Spider and Rosie. Rosie's mother is given to making pointed remarks about [[IWantGrandKids her lack of grandchildren]] and casting aspersions on Spider's virility. It's implied the reason he hasn't had any is ''because'' she's so damned insistent, although as mentioned in ''Literature/AmericanGods'', this may just be because it's very difficult for a god and a human to have a child.
* The Australian children's book ''Literature/BarebumBilly'' ends with an adult Billy Bottom and his wife Millie having a baby boy who [[SharedFamilyQuirks shares his father's love of running around naked]].
* If any couple in ''Literature/TheBelgariad'' or ''Malloreon'' is married at the end, they'll have children. Relg and Taiba are particularly noteworthy - they marry at the end of the ''Belgariad'' and have a small army of offspring by the end of the ''Malloreon'' (though it's hinted they're getting divine aid - Taiba was the last Marag, thus her children would be Marags, and Mara wants his people back). Belgarion and Ce'Nedra are noteworthy in another way: at one point in the ''Malloreon'', it is heavily implied that they will be getting children for a long, long time.
* ''Literature/BenAndMe'': Multiple of Amos' siblings have families of their own by the end of the book.
* At the end of ''Literature/TheBlackFoxOfBeckham'', Arabella and Finn become mates and have kits, one of whom is black like Arabella.
* At the end of ''Literature/ABrothersPrice'', Jerin Whistler's Mother Eldest [[SomeoneToRememberHimBy has had a son]], his Sister Eldest is pregnant, and so is his new wife Halley. (All by different men, don't worry.) This is a setting where childbirth is a risky endeavor in part due to the fact that men in this setting tend to have weak sperm, but the Whistlers are always lucky in that regard.
* In White's ''Literature/CharlottesWeb'' this is actually part of a BittersweetEnding (Charlotte dies, but her babies make it).
* ''Literature/CodexAlera'' ends with Bernard and Amara expecting a child in addition to the several they've already adopted (Including Rook's daughter Masha), not to mention Tavi and Kitai's newborn son Desiderus. Both sets of children are unexpected. In Amara's case, she was infertile until the magic mushroom with healing properties cleared that up. And Tavi and Kitai are an [[InterspeciesRomance interspecies couple]], and as far as we know are the first of their two species to get together.
* In ''Literature/DavidCopperfield'', David is united with Agnes at the end of the book. Cue time lapse and a heartwarming scene of them living with their young children.
* ''Literature/DeltoraQuest'''s third series ended with the OfficialCouple, Lief and Jasmine, married and having children named after [[DeadGuyJunior their dead parents]]. Marilen has given birth to a son, Barda and Lindal have ''six'' children, all taller than their parents, and Doom has wandered off to investigate a rumor that dragons can lay eggs without a mate if the need arises, which would be a very happy ending indeed considering each dragon has up until now been the [[LastOfHisKind last of their kind]].
* ''Literature/{{Divergent}}'': The short story ''We Can Be Mended'', which concludes the series, reveals that Zeke and Shauna are expecting a baby. According to Four, he and Christina fight over the right to name it, though they end up not getting it.
* At the end of ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'', Mina and Jonathan Harker talk of their son [[DeadGuyJunior Quincy.]]
* ''Literature/{{Dragoncharm}}'': [[ActionSurvivor Fortune]] and [[IncorruptiblePurePureness Gossamer]] have a hatchling by the end of the book.
* Regardless of how bleak most of the ''Literature/DragonsOfRequiem'' trilogies end, at least one couple in each trilogy will get married and/or have children during the resolution.
* Near the end of ''Literature/{{Emma}}'', Mrs. Weston gives birth to a baby girl, Anna.
* Very common theme in the ''Literature/EndersGame'' series. The author [[AuthorFilibuster explicitly and shamelessly inserting long speeches about how saving humanity is nothing compared to extending your line]]. Even people completely uninterested in sex (e.g. a man with no interest whatsoever) will settle down and get married, satisfied with adopted children but still hoping for a turkey baster miracle.
** In the ''Literature/EndersShadow'' series, Anton the geneticist settles down, marries, and has a child in addition to his new step-children. He's also unashamedly gay, but can overcome his sexual urges in order to fulfill his social need for progeny. So, he's fine with being gay, and all, but...
*** The protagonist of the same series, Bean, was originally going to subvert this trope, as he was afraid of passing on his genetic condition and his lover, Petra, is fine with this. However, various factors, including the aforementioned Anton, convince him to do his reproductive duty and he and Petra eventually have eight children via in-vitro and the last book of the series has a subplot of them having to retrieve seven of them, which have been implanted in other women by Bean's enemy, Achilles. They manage to find six of them, and the eighth one is eventualy found in ''Literature/EnderInExile''. To really drive the trope home, after Bean and the three children with his genetic condition go into space to await a cure, Petra remarries to Peter Wiggin and has six more kids with him.
** And in ''Literature/EnderInExile'' Graff goes on a long ramble in a letter to Ender telling him to have children, that children are amazing, breed, breed, breed.
*** And the whole reason he did this is because he himself chose to subvert the trope years ago, choosing to symbolically adopt all mankind as his children and focus on colonizing the former Formic worlds, but now, as a retired, lonely old man, regrets his decision.
** ''Literature/SpeakerForTheDead'' and the subsequent book, ''Literature/{{Xenocide}}'', has Ender marry the widowed Novinha and become a father-figure to her children. He also eventually has [[TrulySingleParent children of his own]] via interaction with [[AnotherDimension The Outside]].
* The ''Literature/FiftyShadesOfGrey'' trilogy ends two years later, where Ana and Christian are playing with their son, Teddy. Ana is six months pregnant with a daughter whom they plan to name Phoebe. It is also mentioned that Kate and Elliot are married and had a daughter, Ava.
* Joe Haldeman's ''Literature/TheForeverWar'' ends with the birth announcement of Mandella and Marygay's son from the local paper.
* The end of the first ''Literature/FrecklefaceStrawberry'' book shows an adult Freckleface with two children, neither of whom inherited her freckles.
* In ''Literature/TheGardenOfSinners'''s final light novel, Shiki and Mikiya have a daughter named Mana in the distant future. Said daughter is a huge DaddysGirl, and wants to "beat her mother to get her father back." (Though she doesn't ''hate'' her mom per se, logically). Personality and appearance-wise, Mana resembles Arima Miyako, the other Shiki's cousin in ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}''. Oh and she uses [[NomDeMom her mother's surname]] since [[TheMaidenNameDebate Shiki is quite the]] UptownGirl.
* ''Literature/GoblinMarket'': Both Lizzie and Laura have children in later years, but we aren't told anything about the children's fathers. Sisterhood is depicted as more important than marriage, despite the fact that both characters are now married.
* ''Literature/HardTimes'' ends with asking whether various events each character imagines will happen to them in their future, then after each paragraph says "such things were to be". Then a fairly typical example is described in Louisa's imagination.
-->''[[SubvertedTrope Such a thing was not to be.]]\\
[[DoubleSubversion But, happy Sissy's happy children loving her]]; all children loving her...''
* ''Literature/HarrysMad'': The book ends with the parrot "Fweddy" ([[YourTomcatIsPregnant previously thought male]]) laying an egg and saying "Call me Fwedwika", which Madison[=/=]Mad follows up with "Call me Dad".
* ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows'':
** Tonks and Lupin give birth to Teddy midway through the book. It's not strictly this trope since it is nowhere near the end and there is a war around them, but this serves as a conclusion to their romantic angst, as Lupin originally did not want to marry Tonks because he was afraid his children would become werewolves like him. As it turns out, Teddy is not.
** In the epilogue, it is revealed that Harry and Ginny had three children (James, Albus, and Lily), Ron and Hermione had two children (Rose and Hugo), and Draco had a son (Scorpius). It is also offhandedly mentioned that Teddy is sending off his girlfriend, Victoire Weasley (Bill and Fleur's daughter) as she boards for Hogwarts, along with James, Albus, Rose, and Scorpius.
** WordOfGod further expanded this. Other than the above six, Arthur and Molly Weasley end up with six more grandchildren: Louis and Dominique (Victoire's younger siblings), Fred and Roxanne (George and Angelina's children), and Molly and Lucy (Percy's daughters). Luna marries Rolf, the grandson of [[Literature/FantasticBeastsAndWhereToFindThem Newt Scamander,]] and has two sons, Lorcan and Lysander.
** Rather unsettlingly, ''Voldemort'' also joins the fun as he is revealed to have had a daughter with Bellatrix shortly before they died. This daughter, Delphini, is the main antagonist of ''Theatre/HarryPotterAndTheCursedChild''.
* {{Exaggerated|Trope}} in ''Literature/HighSchoolDXD''. An "EX Novel" set in one possible future of the series shows that Issei had at least one child with ''every single one of his haremettes''.
* In the web novel ''Literature/HokuouKizokuToMoukinzumaNoYukiguniKarigurashi'', Ritzhard & Sieglinde had three sons named Arno, Ulrich & Erenfried, and two daughters named Veronica and Krimhilde, living a happily ever after life together.
* ''Literature/TheHungerGames'': The epilogue of ''Mockingjay'' shows that Annie had [[SomeoneToRememberHimBy a child with the late Finnick]]. Also, it took fifteen years, but Peeta persuaded Katniss. They end up having two children: a girl with her black hair and his blue eyes, and a boy with his blond hair and her gray eyes.
* At the end of ''Literature/TheIckabog'', [[spoiler:the titular creature]] has two babies and Roderick and Martha have five children.
* ''Literature/JaneEyre'': There's plenty that's dark about the final act, but in the last two pages or so nearly all of that is swept aside in favor of warm feelings. Not only is Jane and Rochester's newborn son one of the last images we get, we also get Rochester miraculously regaining his sight in his one remaining eye so he can see the face of his child.
* The book, ''Literature/JapHerron'' ends with Jap's wife Isabel Granger giving birth to a baby boy she names Jasper William.
* In Creator/PeterSBeagle's ''Literature/TheLastUnicorn'', a town is afraid to have children because of the prophecy that their prosperity depended on Haggard, and one of their children would bring him down. At the end, when it has been fulfilled, Prince Lir urges this trope on them; it might help.
* In the Literature/LeftBehind book ''Kingdom Come'', Kenny Williams and Ekaterina Risto become a baby-producing couple for the rest of the Millennium.
* Sora gave birth to Yuuta's daughter in the after story novel of ''Literature/ListenToMeGirlsIAmYourFather''.
* ''Literature/LittleWomen'': Although Meg had her twins earlier in the book, the WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue chapter shows Jo now with two young sons (and a school full of surrogate sons) and Amy with a baby daughter. Interestingly, only Meg has any more children in the sequels set after this chapter.
* ''Literature/{{Lolita}}''. After she finally escapes him, Humbert eventually finds Dolores several years later, married to a man called Schiller and expecting a child. But it's subverted -- the introduction of the novel lists Mrs. Schiller as [[DeathByChildbirth having died in childbirth]].
* In the ending of ''Literature/TheLovelyBones'', Susie mentions that her younger sister, Lindsey, eventually has a daughter named Abigail Suzanne, [[DeadGuyJunior named after her and their mother]].
* ''Literature/TheLordOfBembibre'': The final scene reveals that Millán and Martina had one daughter whom they named after the latter's mistress.
* Creator/JRRTolkien's ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'':
** Sam and Rosie end up having thirteen children, which is a large family even for hobbits. WordOfGod explicitly states that Sam embodies the true happy end and reason for their troubles: being able to live a simple honest life with a good family and good work.
** To a lesser extent, Aragorn and Arwen as well. They have one boy (Eldarion) and several girls (who remain unnamed) before his death 120 years after the end of ''Return of the King''.
* ''Literature/LoveYouForever'' ends with the boy, now a man, singing to his infant daughter.
* In ''Literature/TheMer'', Mers can't have biological children, but in the epilogue, after Val and Will have become a couple, they adopted an infant who transformed into a Mer after drowning in a boating accident. Mer age so slowly that raising him will be a centuries-long commitment.
* In Creator/PoulAnderson's ''Literature/AMidsummerTempest'' {{Denouement}}, Jennifer is looking forward to this.
%%* ''Literature/TheMoonstone'' ends this way, though it's followed by an epilogue with the ''proper'' ending.
* In Philip Reeve's ''Literature/MortalEngines'''s ''Predator's Gold'', Hester is pregnant at the end.
* Creator/SimonaAhrnstedt has ended two of her novels, ''Literature/{{Overenskommelser}}'' and "De skandalösa", with the story's female protagonist being pregnant. "Överenskommelser" even has an epilogue, that only has been printed in the paper-back version, which really is about the birth of Beatrice's and Seth's baby. The two {{beta couple}}s already have babies at that point.
* Subverted in ''Literature/ThePendragonAdventure'', as even though Bobby gets to relive his life as a normal human, his Traveler heritage makes it impossible for him and Courtney to have children.
* The original ''Literature/{{Petaybee}}'' trilogy ends with Yana giving birth to twins, who display their father's shapeshifting abilities at birth.
%% * ''Literature/ThePlayer'' uses this ironically.
* ''Please Don't Tell My Parents'' Series: The HappilyEverAfter is only [[ImpliedTrope Implied]], but in the {{Prequel}} ''Literature/IDidNOTGiveThatSpiderSuperhumanIntelligence'', Robin/Starshine is a young adult. Decades later in ''Literature/PleaseDontTellMyParentsImAGiantMonster'', she's seen as the mother of Entropy and the view-point character Mirabelle.
* In one of the final chapters of ''Literature/PrideAndPrejudice'', it's indicated that Elizabeth's best friend Charlotte is pregnant with her first child.
* In Creator/AnthonyHope's ''Literature/ThePrisonerOfZenda'', despite Rudolf's unhappy ending, this trope is hit on for another character:
-->''Last time, his pretty wife Helga came, and a lusty crowing baby with her.''
* In L. Jagi Lamplighter's ''[[Literature/ProsperosDaughter Prospero Regained]]'', Astreus observes at the end that he and Miranda can both fly -- perhaps they should raise a flock. When they are about to marry, he prophesies that they will have this trope and about their descendants.
* The end of ''Literature/RedeemingLove'' reveals that Angel, who was supposedly barren, was able to have four children with her husband Michael after they were finally reunited for good.
* ''Literature/RedQueen'': The short story collection ''Broken Throne'' reveals that, in the future, Mare and Cal are married and have two children, [[DeadGuyJunior a boy named Shade and a girl named Coriane]].
* Occurs in ''Literature/TheRedemptionOfAlthalus'' to the titular character and Dweia.
* Will and Eleanor have three daughters in the epilogue to ''Literature/TheRoadToWellville''.
* The Literature/SallyLockhart mystery ''Shadow in the North'' has this ending, with the child going on to be extremely important to the plot in the following book (''Tiger in the Well'').
%%* The end of The End in ''Literature/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents''.
* There are plenty of new children in the epilogue of ''Literature/SevenYearsAwesomeLuck'', but of particular note is Denneka being pregnant, with the possibility that the baby may inherit cat traits from its father.
* Occurs multiple times in Juliet Marillier's ''Literature/TheSevenwatersTrilogy'': at the end of ''Literature/DaughterOfTheForest'', Sorcha is pregnant, and ''Literature/ChildOfTheProphecy'' includes an epilogue in which the hero and heroine have two children. One is even [[DeadGuyJunior named after her dead mother]].
* ''Literature/TheShadowhunterChronicles'':
** ''Literature/TheInfernalDevices'' ends with Tessa and Will marrying and having two children, James and Lucie. However, she only stays with the family until Will dies 58 years after they wed. Following that, she goes to a self-imposed exile; as an immortal warlock, she could not bear seeing her children and descendants grow old and die.
** ''Literature/TheLastHours'' ends with the birth of Cordelia's and Alastair's little brother, Zach, who will presumably carry on the Carstairs family name (and therefore become Emma's ancestor) since Alastair has decided not to adopt a baby after coming out as gay. Also, Charlotte and Henry are expecting twins.
* In the light novel ending of ''Literature/ASistersAllYouNeed'', Itsuki & [[spoiler:Nayuta]] had a son named Sora. In the epilogue of the final volume that took place ten years after, Chihiro's monologue reveals that [[spoiler:Nayuta]] is pregnant again with a daughter.
* At the end of ''Literature/SpiceAndWolf'', Holo reveals to Lawrence that she is pregnant after settling down together. The spin-off series ''Literature/WolfAndParchment'' focuses on their daughter, Myuri, as one of the main characters.
* At the end of ''Literature/TheStand'', Fran gave birth to a child from a former relationship and ends up pregnant with Stu's child. Also, Lucy is revealed to have given birth to Larry's [[SomeoneToRememberHimBy twins]].
* Subverted in ''Literature/{{Stardust}}'', as Tristran and Yvaine are very happy even though they can't have children, since he's mortal and she's a star. Played straight in [[Film/{{Stardust}} the film]], though.
* The ''Franchise/StarTrek'' novel ''The Fire and the Rose'' ends with Spock and his love interest in the story, Alexandra, having a baby girl after they get married. This book is part of a self-contained trilogy separate from both established canon and the Literature/StarTrekNovelVerse, known as the ''Crucible'' trilogy[[note]]it's a what-if story based on "The City on the Edge of Forever" and is the middle of the three books, with the others being ''Provenance of Shadows'' and ''The Star to Every Wandering''[[/note]].
* Not exactly an ending trope, but in Franchise/StarWarsLegends just about anyone who has gotten married - be they a main from the movies, an AscendedExtra, or an original - has had children at some point. Almost always one boy, or a set of male-female twins. The exception to that would be [[Literature/XWingSeries Wedge and Iella]], who had two non-twin daughters. The only HappilyMarried couple who didn't have kids would be Winter and Tycho--Winter seems to have considered working as the Solo kids' nanny enough of an experience.
* In Creator/HalClement's ''Literature/StillRiver'', when they plan a return to the planetoid, a woman scientist observes that some of the aliens are coming out of curiosity in her pregnancy.
* ''Literature/{{Stray}}'' is about a stray cat telling his grandson his life's story. The last few chapters end on his grandson's mother being born and becoming a pet.
* ''Literature/TheSuicideShop'' has Marilyn Tuvache pregnant with the child of her lover Ernest near the end of the book.
* ''Literature/TheSummerKingChronicles'' ends with adorable fluffy gryphon chicks for [[BetaCouple Kjorn and Thyra]], [[SomeoneToRememberHimBy Einarr and Astri]], [[JerkJock Halvden and Kenna]], and most other mated pairs of the Silver Isles pride. The sequel short story collection ''The Starward Light'' gives them more characterization and introduces [[OfficialCouple Shard and Brynja]]'s daughter as well.
* ''Literature/TasteOfMarrow'' has a variation. Hero and their gay lover Houndstooth decide to retire and open a ranch, so Hero invites recently retired contract killer Adelia to live with them so she can raise her baby as one of their family.
* In ''Literature/ATaleOfTwoCities'', Sydney Carton's death will be followed Charles and Lucy Darnay having another child, [[DeadGuyJunior who will be named for him]].
-->''I see the lives for which I lay down my life, peaceful, useful, prosperous and happy, in that England which I shall see no more. I see Her with a child upon her bosom, who bears my name.''
* Of the characters who have their conclusions told in ''Literature/TheTenantOfWildfellHall'', the good ones are happily married with large families and the bad ones are either dead or miserably alone.
* ''Literature/TomcatBlueEyesDiaries'': The book ends with an adorable pair of Siamese cats, Kiki and Blue Eyes, having four kittens.
* {{Exaggerated|Trope}} at the conclusion of the Colleen [=McCullough=] novel ''The Touch'', where Elizabeth not only introduces her daughter Nell to her new baby brother and sister, her stepfather informs her that she's expecting again.
* Of particular note is the Literature/TowerAndTheHive series, where every major story arc ended with the main female protagonist pregnant. In fact, it went in generations in the series proper: The Rowan was pregnant with Child #2 at the end of ''The Rowan'', Damia (Child #3) was pregnant with her first at the end of ''Damia'' and [[DeadGuyJunior Laria]] (the child Damia was carrying in the previous mention) was pregnant at the end of ''The Tower And The Hive'' (with the implication that her younger brother Thian's lover was pregnant as well)
* ''Literature/TrappedInADatingSimTheWorldOfOtomeGamesIsToughForMobs'': The WebSerialNovel version has a BitterSweetEnding variant, with Leon having kids with his four wives, and TheLancer Marie having kids with her five husbands. Leon is stuck ResignedToTheCall as TheAdventureContinues and unable to spend time with his family, and Marie, who's TheChewToy thanks to the RichInDollarsPoorInSense antics of her husbands, has her burdens only increase living on an island with each of them in turn to avoid a MamasBabyPapasMaybe situation to give them each an undisputed heir.
* ''Literature/TrappedOnDraconica'': In the epilogue, Ben dreams that Daniar is pregnant during her wedding to Kalak.
* Meyer's ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga'' sort of ends on this. Bella and Edward have Renesmee midway through ''Breaking Dawn'' after an ExpressDelivery and the last half of the book is spent cleaning up all the loose ends caused by her existence. Oh, and Renesmee is also [[LoveAtFirstSight imprinted]] by Jacob, ergo solving the Edward-Bella-Jacob LoveTriangle. Notable for many readers having found it incredibly [[{{Squick}} repulsive]] rather than heartwarming.
* Creator/LoisMcMasterBujold is an [[WordOfGod explicit]] subscriber to this trope; she always intended for Literature/VorkosiganSaga's Aral Vorkosigan and Cordelia Naismith to have a kid, after she came up with them. Of course, given her views on proper CharacterDevelopment, this is very much ''not'' HappilyEverAfter...
** A later book in the series to date ends with Miles attending the birth of his son and daughter; after that, ''Cryoburn'' reveals that Miles and Ekaterin have added two more daughters to the count while all of the Koudelka sisters except Kareen have had at least one child with their respective partners. And most importantly (as far as Miles, Mark and Ivan are concerned) is that Gregor and Laisa have gotten around to securing the line of succession for the throne. By ''Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen'', Miles and Ekaterin are up to six kids, plus Ivan and Tej (offscreen) have apparently spawned. The kicker, however, would be Cordelia and her late husband Aral's male partner Oliver Jole. Cordelia uses frozen sperm willed to her by Aral to produce six female zygotes, all of which she plans to have brought to term. She also shares some of Aral's sperm, as well as leftover enucleated eggs from her, with Oliver so that he can engage in HomosexualReproduction and produce sons that will be biologically both his and Aral's. Three of them.
* ''Literature/WarAndPeace'' features the two surviving couples--Pierre and Natasha, Nikolay and Marya--each with several children in the epilogue. Naturally most of them are [[DeadGuyJunior named after deceased friends]] of their parents.
* Happens a few times in ''Literature/WarriorCats'':
** ''Firestar's Quest'' ends with an epilogue three moons after the main story, with Firestar and Sandstorm naming their newborn daughters.
** ''Bramblestar's Storm'' ends with an epilogue in manga format, where Bramblestar and Squirrelflight realize that Squirrelflight is pregnant with their kits. This is particularly significant as they're the couple with the greatest case of OfficialCoupleOrdealSyndrome in the series and there was a whole big deal over the last two arcs where Squirrelflight had been led to believe she could never become pregnant, so she'd secretly adopted her sister's forbidden kits and hadn't told Bramblestar the truth, which had led to drama between them.
* The ending to ''Literature/WeCantRewind'', though whether one should consider it heartwarming or creepy under the circumstances is left for the reader to decide.
* In ''Literature/TheWidowOfDesire,'' Natalie Stuart marries Russian businessman Wallace Nevsky, but he is killed due to his uncovering of a conspiracy in the USSR. When caught up in the events herself, she finds out she's pregnant with Wallace's son.
* Subverted in ''Literature/TheWomanInBlack''. Arthur Kipps unravels the Woman in Black's mystery, marries his fiancée, and has a son with her. It seems happily ever after, until The Woman in Black murders his wife and son a year later.
* In ''Literature/TheWomanInWhite'', Laura, who has been sick for most of the last quarter of the novel, marries her love interest and they have a son. The birth of Laura's son isn't just happy for general sentimental reasons, but also represents a final victory over the villains who tried to deprive her of her inheritance; the Fairlie estate was entailed to only be inherited by male relatives, which is why her uncle got it after her father, but now on her uncle's death it comes to Laura in trust for her son.
* ''Literature/TheYukonWolf'' ends with Arnaaluk having a litter.
* In the ''Literature/AgeOfFire'' books, the first novel ends with the dragon [=AuRon=] settling down with Natasatch, lovingly embracing around a clutch of eggs. In the last novel, set decades later, the novel ends with his now-pregnant sister Wistala and her mate [=DharSii=] flying off to their home cave.
* The epilogue of ''Literature/TheAliceNetwork'' features Charlie and Finn’s daughter. Justified: The mother in question was pregnant for the entire book, although it took her some time to decide whether to keep the baby.
* ''Literature/AnansiBoys'' plays this straight with Charlie and Daisy's son, but subverts it with Spider and Rosie. Rosie's mother is given to making pointed remarks about [[IWantGrandKids her lack of grandchildren]] and casting aspersions on Spider's virility. It's implied the reason he hasn't had any is ''because'' she's so damned insistent, although as mentioned in ''Literature/AmericanGods'', this may just be because it's very difficult for a god and a human to have a child.
* The Australian children's book ''Literature/BarebumBilly'' ends with an adult Billy Bottom and his wife Millie having a baby boy who [[SharedFamilyQuirks shares his father's love of running around naked]].
* If any couple in ''Literature/TheBelgariad'' or ''Malloreon'' is married at the end, they'll have children. Relg and Taiba are particularly noteworthy - they marry at the end of the ''Belgariad'' and have a small army of offspring by the end of the ''Malloreon'' (though it's hinted they're getting divine aid - Taiba was the last Marag, thus her children would be Marags, and Mara wants his people back). Belgarion and Ce'Nedra are noteworthy in another way: at one point in the ''Malloreon'', it is heavily implied that they will be getting children for a long, long time.
* ''Literature/BenAndMe'': Multiple of Amos' siblings have families of their own by the end of the book.
* At the end of ''Literature/TheBlackFoxOfBeckham'', Arabella and Finn become mates and have kits, one of whom is black like Arabella.
* At the end of ''Literature/ABrothersPrice'', Jerin Whistler's Mother Eldest [[SomeoneToRememberHimBy has had a son]], his Sister Eldest is pregnant, and so is his new wife Halley. (All by different men, don't worry.) This is a setting where childbirth is a risky endeavor in part due to the fact that men in this setting tend to have weak sperm, but the Whistlers are always lucky in that regard.
* In White's ''Literature/CharlottesWeb'' this is actually part of a BittersweetEnding (Charlotte dies, but her babies make it).
* ''Literature/CodexAlera'' ends with Bernard and Amara expecting a child in addition to the several they've already adopted (Including Rook's daughter Masha), not to mention Tavi and Kitai's newborn son Desiderus. Both sets of children are unexpected. In Amara's case, she was infertile until the magic mushroom with healing properties cleared that up. And Tavi and Kitai are an [[InterspeciesRomance interspecies couple]], and as far as we know are the first of their two species to get together.
* In ''Literature/DavidCopperfield'', David is united with Agnes at the end of the book. Cue time lapse and a heartwarming scene of them living with their young children.
* ''Literature/DeltoraQuest'''s third series ended with the OfficialCouple, Lief and Jasmine, married and having children named after [[DeadGuyJunior their dead parents]]. Marilen has given birth to a son, Barda and Lindal have ''six'' children, all taller than their parents, and Doom has wandered off to investigate a rumor that dragons can lay eggs without a mate if the need arises, which would be a very happy ending indeed considering each dragon has up until now been the [[LastOfHisKind last of their kind]].
* ''Literature/{{Divergent}}'': The short story ''We Can Be Mended'', which concludes the series, reveals that Zeke and Shauna are expecting a baby. According to Four, he and Christina fight over the right to name it, though they end up not getting it.
* At the end of ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'', Mina and Jonathan Harker talk of their son [[DeadGuyJunior Quincy.]]
* ''Literature/{{Dragoncharm}}'': [[ActionSurvivor Fortune]] and [[IncorruptiblePurePureness Gossamer]] have a hatchling by the end of the book.
* Regardless of how bleak most of the ''Literature/DragonsOfRequiem'' trilogies end, at least one couple in each trilogy will get married and/or have children during the resolution.
* Near the end of ''Literature/{{Emma}}'', Mrs. Weston gives birth to a baby girl, Anna.
* Very common theme in the ''Literature/EndersGame'' series. The author [[AuthorFilibuster explicitly and shamelessly inserting long speeches about how saving humanity is nothing compared to extending your line]]. Even people completely uninterested in sex (e.g. a man with no interest whatsoever) will settle down and get married, satisfied with adopted children but still hoping for a turkey baster miracle.
** In the ''Literature/EndersShadow'' series, Anton the geneticist settles down, marries, and has a child in addition to his new step-children. He's also unashamedly gay, but can overcome his sexual urges in order to fulfill his social need for progeny. So, he's fine with being gay, and all, but...
*** The protagonist of the same series, Bean, was originally going to subvert this trope, as he was afraid of passing on his genetic condition and his lover, Petra, is fine with this. However, various factors, including the aforementioned Anton, convince him to do his reproductive duty and he and Petra eventually have eight children via in-vitro and the last book of the series has a subplot of them having to retrieve seven of them, which have been implanted in other women by Bean's enemy, Achilles. They manage to find six of them, and the eighth one is eventualy found in ''Literature/EnderInExile''. To really drive the trope home, after Bean and the three children with his genetic condition go into space to await a cure, Petra remarries to Peter Wiggin and has six more kids with him.
** And in ''Literature/EnderInExile'' Graff goes on a long ramble in a letter to Ender telling him to have children, that children are amazing, breed, breed, breed.
*** And the whole reason he did this is because he himself chose to subvert the trope years ago, choosing to symbolically adopt all mankind as his children and focus on colonizing the former Formic worlds, but now, as a retired, lonely old man, regrets his decision.
** ''Literature/SpeakerForTheDead'' and the subsequent book, ''Literature/{{Xenocide}}'', has Ender marry the widowed Novinha and become a father-figure to her children. He also eventually has [[TrulySingleParent children of his own]] via interaction with [[AnotherDimension The Outside]].
* The ''Literature/FiftyShadesOfGrey'' trilogy ends two years later, where Ana and Christian are playing with their son, Teddy. Ana is six months pregnant with a daughter whom they plan to name Phoebe. It is also mentioned that Kate and Elliot are married and had a daughter, Ava.
* Joe Haldeman's ''Literature/TheForeverWar'' ends with the birth announcement of Mandella and Marygay's son from the local paper.
* The end of the first ''Literature/FrecklefaceStrawberry'' book shows an adult Freckleface with two children, neither of whom inherited her freckles.
* In ''Literature/TheGardenOfSinners'''s final light novel, Shiki and Mikiya have a daughter named Mana in the distant future. Said daughter is a huge DaddysGirl, and wants to "beat her mother to get her father back." (Though she doesn't ''hate'' her mom per se, logically). Personality and appearance-wise, Mana resembles Arima Miyako, the other Shiki's cousin in ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}''. Oh and she uses [[NomDeMom her mother's surname]] since [[TheMaidenNameDebate Shiki is quite the]] UptownGirl.
* ''Literature/GoblinMarket'': Both Lizzie and Laura have children in later years, but we aren't told anything about the children's fathers. Sisterhood is depicted as more important than marriage, despite the fact that both characters are now married.
* ''Literature/HardTimes'' ends with asking whether various events each character imagines will happen to them in their future, then after each paragraph says "such things were to be". Then a fairly typical example is described in Louisa's imagination.
-->''[[SubvertedTrope Such a thing was not to be.]]\\
[[DoubleSubversion But, happy Sissy's happy children loving her]]; all children loving her...''
* ''Literature/HarrysMad'': The book ends with the parrot "Fweddy" ([[YourTomcatIsPregnant previously thought male]]) laying an egg and saying "Call me Fwedwika", which Madison[=/=]Mad follows up with "Call me Dad".
* ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows'':
** Tonks and Lupin give birth to Teddy midway through the book. It's not strictly this trope since it is nowhere near the end and there is a war around them, but this serves as a conclusion to their romantic angst, as Lupin originally did not want to marry Tonks because he was afraid his children would become werewolves like him. As it turns out, Teddy is not.
** In the epilogue, it is revealed that Harry and Ginny had three children (James, Albus, and Lily), Ron and Hermione had two children (Rose and Hugo), and Draco had a son (Scorpius). It is also offhandedly mentioned that Teddy is sending off his girlfriend, Victoire Weasley (Bill and Fleur's daughter) as she boards for Hogwarts, along with James, Albus, Rose, and Scorpius.
** WordOfGod further expanded this. Other than the above six, Arthur and Molly Weasley end up with six more grandchildren: Louis and Dominique (Victoire's younger siblings), Fred and Roxanne (George and Angelina's children), and Molly and Lucy (Percy's daughters). Luna marries Rolf, the grandson of [[Literature/FantasticBeastsAndWhereToFindThem Newt Scamander,]] and has two sons, Lorcan and Lysander.
** Rather unsettlingly, ''Voldemort'' also joins the fun as he is revealed to have had a daughter with Bellatrix shortly before they died. This daughter, Delphini, is the main antagonist of ''Theatre/HarryPotterAndTheCursedChild''.
* {{Exaggerated|Trope}} in ''Literature/HighSchoolDXD''. An "EX Novel" set in one possible future of the series shows that Issei had at least one child with ''every single one of his haremettes''.
* In the web novel ''Literature/HokuouKizokuToMoukinzumaNoYukiguniKarigurashi'', Ritzhard & Sieglinde had three sons named Arno, Ulrich & Erenfried, and two daughters named Veronica and Krimhilde, living a happily ever after life together.
* ''Literature/TheHungerGames'': The epilogue of ''Mockingjay'' shows that Annie had [[SomeoneToRememberHimBy a child with the late Finnick]]. Also, it took fifteen years, but Peeta persuaded Katniss. They end up having two children: a girl with her black hair and his blue eyes, and a boy with his blond hair and her gray eyes.
* At the end of ''Literature/TheIckabog'', [[spoiler:the titular creature]] has two babies and Roderick and Martha have five children.
* ''Literature/JaneEyre'': There's plenty that's dark about the final act, but in the last two pages or so nearly all of that is swept aside in favor of warm feelings. Not only is Jane and Rochester's newborn son one of the last images we get, we also get Rochester miraculously regaining his sight in his one remaining eye so he can see the face of his child.
* The book, ''Literature/JapHerron'' ends with Jap's wife Isabel Granger giving birth to a baby boy she names Jasper William.
* In Creator/PeterSBeagle's ''Literature/TheLastUnicorn'', a town is afraid to have children because of the prophecy that their prosperity depended on Haggard, and one of their children would bring him down. At the end, when it has been fulfilled, Prince Lir urges this trope on them; it might help.
* In the Literature/LeftBehind book ''Kingdom Come'', Kenny Williams and Ekaterina Risto become a baby-producing couple for the rest of the Millennium.
* Sora gave birth to Yuuta's daughter in the after story novel of ''Literature/ListenToMeGirlsIAmYourFather''.
* ''Literature/LittleWomen'': Although Meg had her twins earlier in the book, the WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue chapter shows Jo now with two young sons (and a school full of surrogate sons) and Amy with a baby daughter. Interestingly, only Meg has any more children in the sequels set after this chapter.
* ''Literature/{{Lolita}}''. After she finally escapes him, Humbert eventually finds Dolores several years later, married to a man called Schiller and expecting a child. But it's subverted -- the introduction of the novel lists Mrs. Schiller as [[DeathByChildbirth having died in childbirth]].
* In the ending of ''Literature/TheLovelyBones'', Susie mentions that her younger sister, Lindsey, eventually has a daughter named Abigail Suzanne, [[DeadGuyJunior named after her and their mother]].
* ''Literature/TheLordOfBembibre'': The final scene reveals that Millán and Martina had one daughter whom they named after the latter's mistress.
* Creator/JRRTolkien's ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'':
** Sam and Rosie end up having thirteen children, which is a large family even for hobbits. WordOfGod explicitly states that Sam embodies the true happy end and reason for their troubles: being able to live a simple honest life with a good family and good work.
** To a lesser extent, Aragorn and Arwen as well. They have one boy (Eldarion) and several girls (who remain unnamed) before his death 120 years after the end of ''Return of the King''.
* ''Literature/LoveYouForever'' ends with the boy, now a man, singing to his infant daughter.
* In ''Literature/TheMer'', Mers can't have biological children, but in the epilogue, after Val and Will have become a couple, they adopted an infant who transformed into a Mer after drowning in a boating accident. Mer age so slowly that raising him will be a centuries-long commitment.
* In Creator/PoulAnderson's ''Literature/AMidsummerTempest'' {{Denouement}}, Jennifer is looking forward to this.
%%* ''Literature/TheMoonstone'' ends this way, though it's followed by an epilogue with the ''proper'' ending.
* In Philip Reeve's ''Literature/MortalEngines'''s ''Predator's Gold'', Hester is pregnant at the end.
* Creator/SimonaAhrnstedt has ended two of her novels, ''Literature/{{Overenskommelser}}'' and "De skandalösa", with the story's female protagonist being pregnant. "Överenskommelser" even has an epilogue, that only has been printed in the paper-back version, which really is about the birth of Beatrice's and Seth's baby. The two {{beta couple}}s already have babies at that point.
* Subverted in ''Literature/ThePendragonAdventure'', as even though Bobby gets to relive his life as a normal human, his Traveler heritage makes it impossible for him and Courtney to have children.
* The original ''Literature/{{Petaybee}}'' trilogy ends with Yana giving birth to twins, who display their father's shapeshifting abilities at birth.
%% * ''Literature/ThePlayer'' uses this ironically.
* ''Please Don't Tell My Parents'' Series: The HappilyEverAfter is only [[ImpliedTrope Implied]], but in the {{Prequel}} ''Literature/IDidNOTGiveThatSpiderSuperhumanIntelligence'', Robin/Starshine is a young adult. Decades later in ''Literature/PleaseDontTellMyParentsImAGiantMonster'', she's seen as the mother of Entropy and the view-point character Mirabelle.
* In one of the final chapters of ''Literature/PrideAndPrejudice'', it's indicated that Elizabeth's best friend Charlotte is pregnant with her first child.
* In Creator/AnthonyHope's ''Literature/ThePrisonerOfZenda'', despite Rudolf's unhappy ending, this trope is hit on for another character:
-->''Last time, his pretty wife Helga came, and a lusty crowing baby with her.''
* In L. Jagi Lamplighter's ''[[Literature/ProsperosDaughter Prospero Regained]]'', Astreus observes at the end that he and Miranda can both fly -- perhaps they should raise a flock. When they are about to marry, he prophesies that they will have this trope and about their descendants.
* The end of ''Literature/RedeemingLove'' reveals that Angel, who was supposedly barren, was able to have four children with her husband Michael after they were finally reunited for good.
* ''Literature/RedQueen'': The short story collection ''Broken Throne'' reveals that, in the future, Mare and Cal are married and have two children, [[DeadGuyJunior a boy named Shade and a girl named Coriane]].
* Occurs in ''Literature/TheRedemptionOfAlthalus'' to the titular character and Dweia.
* Will and Eleanor have three daughters in the epilogue to ''Literature/TheRoadToWellville''.
* The Literature/SallyLockhart mystery ''Shadow in the North'' has this ending, with the child going on to be extremely important to the plot in the following book (''Tiger in the Well'').
%%* The end of The End in ''Literature/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents''.
* There are plenty of new children in the epilogue of ''Literature/SevenYearsAwesomeLuck'', but of particular note is Denneka being pregnant, with the possibility that the baby may inherit cat traits from its father.
* Occurs multiple times in Juliet Marillier's ''Literature/TheSevenwatersTrilogy'': at the end of ''Literature/DaughterOfTheForest'', Sorcha is pregnant, and ''Literature/ChildOfTheProphecy'' includes an epilogue in which the hero and heroine have two children. One is even [[DeadGuyJunior named after her dead mother]].
* ''Literature/TheShadowhunterChronicles'':
** ''Literature/TheInfernalDevices'' ends with Tessa and Will marrying and having two children, James and Lucie. However, she only stays with the family until Will dies 58 years after they wed. Following that, she goes to a self-imposed exile; as an immortal warlock, she could not bear seeing her children and descendants grow old and die.
** ''Literature/TheLastHours'' ends with the birth of Cordelia's and Alastair's little brother, Zach, who will presumably carry on the Carstairs family name (and therefore become Emma's ancestor) since Alastair has decided not to adopt a baby after coming out as gay. Also, Charlotte and Henry are expecting twins.
* In the light novel ending of ''Literature/ASistersAllYouNeed'', Itsuki & [[spoiler:Nayuta]] had a son named Sora. In the epilogue of the final volume that took place ten years after, Chihiro's monologue reveals that [[spoiler:Nayuta]] is pregnant again with a daughter.
* At the end of ''Literature/SpiceAndWolf'', Holo reveals to Lawrence that she is pregnant after settling down together. The spin-off series ''Literature/WolfAndParchment'' focuses on their daughter, Myuri, as one of the main characters.
* At the end of ''Literature/TheStand'', Fran gave birth to a child from a former relationship and ends up pregnant with Stu's child. Also, Lucy is revealed to have given birth to Larry's [[SomeoneToRememberHimBy twins]].
* Subverted in ''Literature/{{Stardust}}'', as Tristran and Yvaine are very happy even though they can't have children, since he's mortal and she's a star. Played straight in [[Film/{{Stardust}} the film]], though.
* The ''Franchise/StarTrek'' novel ''The Fire and the Rose'' ends with Spock and his love interest in the story, Alexandra, having a baby girl after they get married. This book is part of a self-contained trilogy separate from both established canon and the Literature/StarTrekNovelVerse, known as the ''Crucible'' trilogy[[note]]it's a what-if story based on "The City on the Edge of Forever" and is the middle of the three books, with the others being ''Provenance of Shadows'' and ''The Star to Every Wandering''[[/note]].
* Not exactly an ending trope, but in Franchise/StarWarsLegends just about anyone who has gotten married - be they a main from the movies, an AscendedExtra, or an original - has had children at some point. Almost always one boy, or a set of male-female twins. The exception to that would be [[Literature/XWingSeries Wedge and Iella]], who had two non-twin daughters. The only HappilyMarried couple who didn't have kids would be Winter and Tycho--Winter seems to have considered working as the Solo kids' nanny enough of an experience.
* In Creator/HalClement's ''Literature/StillRiver'', when they plan a return to the planetoid, a woman scientist observes that some of the aliens are coming out of curiosity in her pregnancy.
* ''Literature/{{Stray}}'' is about a stray cat telling his grandson his life's story. The last few chapters end on his grandson's mother being born and becoming a pet.
* ''Literature/TheSuicideShop'' has Marilyn Tuvache pregnant with the child of her lover Ernest near the end of the book.
* ''Literature/TheSummerKingChronicles'' ends with adorable fluffy gryphon chicks for [[BetaCouple Kjorn and Thyra]], [[SomeoneToRememberHimBy Einarr and Astri]], [[JerkJock Halvden and Kenna]], and most other mated pairs of the Silver Isles pride. The sequel short story collection ''The Starward Light'' gives them more characterization and introduces [[OfficialCouple Shard and Brynja]]'s daughter as well.
* ''Literature/TasteOfMarrow'' has a variation. Hero and their gay lover Houndstooth decide to retire and open a ranch, so Hero invites recently retired contract killer Adelia to live with them so she can raise her baby as one of their family.
* In ''Literature/ATaleOfTwoCities'', Sydney Carton's death will be followed Charles and Lucy Darnay having another child, [[DeadGuyJunior who will be named for him]].
-->''I see the lives for which I lay down my life, peaceful, useful, prosperous and happy, in that England which I shall see no more. I see Her with a child upon her bosom, who bears my name.''
* Of the characters who have their conclusions told in ''Literature/TheTenantOfWildfellHall'', the good ones are happily married with large families and the bad ones are either dead or miserably alone.
* ''Literature/TomcatBlueEyesDiaries'': The book ends with an adorable pair of Siamese cats, Kiki and Blue Eyes, having four kittens.
* {{Exaggerated|Trope}} at the conclusion of the Colleen [=McCullough=] novel ''The Touch'', where Elizabeth not only introduces her daughter Nell to her new baby brother and sister, her stepfather informs her that she's expecting again.
* Of particular note is the Literature/TowerAndTheHive series, where every major story arc ended with the main female protagonist pregnant. In fact, it went in generations in the series proper: The Rowan was pregnant with Child #2 at the end of ''The Rowan'', Damia (Child #3) was pregnant with her first at the end of ''Damia'' and [[DeadGuyJunior Laria]] (the child Damia was carrying in the previous mention) was pregnant at the end of ''The Tower And The Hive'' (with the implication that her younger brother Thian's lover was pregnant as well)
* ''Literature/TrappedInADatingSimTheWorldOfOtomeGamesIsToughForMobs'': The WebSerialNovel version has a BitterSweetEnding variant, with Leon having kids with his four wives, and TheLancer Marie having kids with her five husbands. Leon is stuck ResignedToTheCall as TheAdventureContinues and unable to spend time with his family, and Marie, who's TheChewToy thanks to the RichInDollarsPoorInSense antics of her husbands, has her burdens only increase living on an island with each of them in turn to avoid a MamasBabyPapasMaybe situation to give them each an undisputed heir.
* ''Literature/TrappedOnDraconica'': In the epilogue, Ben dreams that Daniar is pregnant during her wedding to Kalak.
* Meyer's ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga'' sort of ends on this. Bella and Edward have Renesmee midway through ''Breaking Dawn'' after an ExpressDelivery and the last half of the book is spent cleaning up all the loose ends caused by her existence. Oh, and Renesmee is also [[LoveAtFirstSight imprinted]] by Jacob, ergo solving the Edward-Bella-Jacob LoveTriangle. Notable for many readers having found it incredibly [[{{Squick}} repulsive]] rather than heartwarming.
* Creator/LoisMcMasterBujold is an [[WordOfGod explicit]] subscriber to this trope; she always intended for Literature/VorkosiganSaga's Aral Vorkosigan and Cordelia Naismith to have a kid, after she came up with them. Of course, given her views on proper CharacterDevelopment, this is very much ''not'' HappilyEverAfter...
** A later book in the series to date ends with Miles attending the birth of his son and daughter; after that, ''Cryoburn'' reveals that Miles and Ekaterin have added two more daughters to the count while all of the Koudelka sisters except Kareen have had at least one child with their respective partners. And most importantly (as far as Miles, Mark and Ivan are concerned) is that Gregor and Laisa have gotten around to securing the line of succession for the throne. By ''Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen'', Miles and Ekaterin are up to six kids, plus Ivan and Tej (offscreen) have apparently spawned. The kicker, however, would be Cordelia and her late husband Aral's male partner Oliver Jole. Cordelia uses frozen sperm willed to her by Aral to produce six female zygotes, all of which she plans to have brought to term. She also shares some of Aral's sperm, as well as leftover enucleated eggs from her, with Oliver so that he can engage in HomosexualReproduction and produce sons that will be biologically both his and Aral's. Three of them.
* ''Literature/WarAndPeace'' features the two surviving couples--Pierre and Natasha, Nikolay and Marya--each with several children in the epilogue. Naturally most of them are [[DeadGuyJunior named after deceased friends]] of their parents.
* Happens a few times in ''Literature/WarriorCats'':
** ''Firestar's Quest'' ends with an epilogue three moons after the main story, with Firestar and Sandstorm naming their newborn daughters.
** ''Bramblestar's Storm'' ends with an epilogue in manga format, where Bramblestar and Squirrelflight realize that Squirrelflight is pregnant with their kits. This is particularly significant as they're the couple with the greatest case of OfficialCoupleOrdealSyndrome in the series and there was a whole big deal over the last two arcs where Squirrelflight had been led to believe she could never become pregnant, so she'd secretly adopted her sister's forbidden kits and hadn't told Bramblestar the truth, which had led to drama between them.
* The ending to ''Literature/WeCantRewind'', though whether one should consider it heartwarming or creepy under the circumstances is left for the reader to decide.
* In ''Literature/TheWidowOfDesire,'' Natalie Stuart marries Russian businessman Wallace Nevsky, but he is killed due to his uncovering of a conspiracy in the USSR. When caught up in the events herself, she finds out she's pregnant with Wallace's son.
* Subverted in ''Literature/TheWomanInBlack''. Arthur Kipps unravels the Woman in Black's mystery, marries his fiancée, and has a son with her. It seems happily ever after, until The Woman in Black murders his wife and son a year later.
* In ''Literature/TheWomanInWhite'', Laura, who has been sick for most of the last quarter of the novel, marries her love interest and they have a son. The birth of Laura's son isn't just happy for general sentimental reasons, but also represents a final victory over the villains who tried to deprive her of her inheritance; the Fairlie estate was entailed to only be inherited by male relatives, which is why her uncle got it after her father, but now on her uncle's death it comes to Laura in trust for her son.
* ''Literature/TheYukonWolf'' ends with Arnaaluk having a litter.
