One-to-one associations can be created with {@link Model#belongsTo belongsTo}, {@link Model#hasOne hasOne}, and {@link Model#morphOne morphOne} relation types. var Book = bookshelf.Model.extend({ tableName: 'books', summary: function() { return this.hasOne(Summary); } }); var Summary = bookshelf.Model.extend({ tableName: 'summaries', book: function() { return this.belongsTo(Book); } }); A Knex migration for the above relationship could be created with: exports.up = function(knex, Promise) { return knex.schema.createTable('books', function(table) { table.increments('id').primary(); table.string('name'); }).createTable('summaries', function(table) { table.increments('id').primary(); table.string('details'); table.integer('book_id').unique().references('books.id'); }); }; exports.down = function(knex, Promise) { return knex.schema.dropTable('books') .dropTable('summaries'); };