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Gothic Romance / Historical Mystery
Ailsa Crowe
Protector Romance
Skye MacLeod
People in Derry didn’t notice things. They stored them. They kept receipts in their mouths and brought them out like coins: at the till in Spar, at the rail by the pitch, at the bus stop when the rain made everyone brave. Saoirse Kavanagh learned that the night the breakup became public property. It was meant to be private. A slammed door, a shouted sentence, the kind of ending you could tuck into a drawer and lock.
Historical Romance
Eilidh Ross
The duchess arrived at the church in a borrowed mourning veil and left it with a dead man’s letter sewn into her hem. No one noticed, because London had always preferred spectacle to truth, and on that March morning spectacle came obediently dressed in black silk, wet feathers, and three dozen carriages hissing through rain. Viola, Duchess of Hartmere, stood beneath the stone porch of St Bartholomew’s and listened to the bells toll for a husband who had not loved her enough to haunt her, though he had certainly hated her enough to leave instructions.
Celebrity Romance
Caoimhe Kildare
Crown & Clover — The Brighthelm Saga
The Key The first photograph arrived while Maeve Devlin was buttering toast with one hand and signing a consent form with the other. It was not, strictly speaking, how constitutional crises were meant to begin. There should have been a bell somewhere, a man in a grey suit, a folded paper on a silver tray, perhaps a storm beating itself stupid against the palace windows for atmosphere.
Celebrity Romance
Caoimhe Kildare
The first barrel Ronan Byrne ever loved had his grandfather's handwriting on it. Not the neat signature the tourists admired on old photographs in the visitor centre, but the private hand: black ink slanting uphill, a stubborn flourish under the B, and one sentence chalked on the head of the cask as if it were a blessing or a warning. Wait until it tells you.
Small-Town Romance
Sorcha Lennox
THE THINGS THE SEA DOES NOT KEEP The sea returned the wedding photographs on a Thursday. It did not return the wedding. That distinction would matter later.
Protector Romance
Skye MacLeod
The white blanket was the only thing in the cottage that had not learned to fear a door. Nessa Ward folded it once, then twice, pressing the cotton into a square so neat it looked like a promise made by someone more innocent than her. Luca had carried it from bed to chair to the floor beside the kettle, dragging one corner over the old pine boards until it collected dust, crumbs, and the kind of ordinary evidence she had once believed she would be allowed to keep.
Celebrity Romance
Caoimhe Kildare
The gold star fell off Maeve Hart’s coat in front of three hundred cameras, which was rude of it, considering it had survived thirteen years of press tours, airport lounges, hotel carpets, bad boyfriends, worse managers, and one stadium encore in the rain. It hit the wet pavement outside the Royal Emerald Hotel with a tiny click nobody should have heard. Maeve heard it anyway.
Emotional Romance
Skye Wilder
The first envelope came back slit open, rain-softened at the corners, and stamped RETURN TO SENDER in a red so violent it looked less like ink than a wound. Maeve Larkin stood in the staff doorway of the Harbour Light Hotel with one hand still on the brass threshold plate, her waitress shoes soaked through, and understood before she read her own name that some doors did not close politely.
Holiday Romance
Aoife Winters
The year the lights went wrong, Niamh Kelly was nine. The tree in the corner of the sitting room leaned slightly to the left, draped in tinsel that shed on the carpet like metallic cat hair. The fairy lights blinked on and off in a slow, sleepy pattern, one bulb already gone dead so there was a dark patch near the top, like the tree had closed its eye. Voices seeped out from the kitchen, low and sharp.
Romantic Comedy
Bronagh Fairburn
By nine o'clock on Friday morning, Niamh O'Connell had accidentally become engaged to Cormac Byrne, the one solicitor in Dublin who could make silence sound like a legal threat. The ring was not hers. The building was barely theirs. The photograph was already halfway to becoming public property. Fair Day Rooms held its breath around her: old wood, kettle steam, rain on the high glass, and the brass donation bell dented by decades of hopeful hands.
Romantic Comedy
Bronagh Fairburn
By seven twenty-two on a wet Tuesday morning, Molly Byrne had already lied to three strangers, one woman in a fluorescent cycling jacket, and the entire commuter population of South Dublin by way of a live radio segment that was supposed to make her career look professional, not legally interesting. This was not, to be fair, how the morning had been briefed.
Celebrity Romance
Caoimhe Kildare
THE LAST SCENE The last thing Maeve Callaghan ever said as Eilidh Kerr was not written in the script. It was not supposed to be said at all. The script had given her silence. After fourteen years, eight seasons, three wars, two fictional children buried and four fictional grandchildren born, a shipwreck, a hanging narrowly avoided, one revolution, a fever that had taken six weeks to film and roughly ten minutes to survive on screen, and more mud than any actress should reasonably be expected to swallow for art, Eilidh Kerr’s final instruction was simple.
Music Industry Romance
Ivy Donnachaidh
Fionn Kavanagh learned young that Saoirse Byrne could turn love into ambition, and the betrayal taught him never to be anyone’s convenient story again. Years later, music puts them back in the same orbit as Saoirse reaches for a second chance under the glare of a televised singing competition—and the history between them is far more permanent than either career ever was.
Sports Romance
Nessa Calder
Physiotherapist and single mother Aoife Byrne has built a careful life around work, community and her fierce nine-year-old daughter. When football star Eoin Daly returns home for a testimonial season, the boy she once loved walks back into the leisure centre carrying an injured knee, a changed life and the history neither of them has quite buried. As school visits, family loyalties and the pressure of public attention pull them closer, Aoife and Eoin must decide whether a second chance can be built from something quieter than grand gestures: trust, ordinary reliability, and the courage to stay after the match is over.
Erotic Romance
Sive Hart
At midnight, the harbour door locked from the inside. That was the rule on the bronze plaque beside the bell: no spectators after twelve, no phones beyond the velvet line, no touch without a yes that could survive morning. Mara Vale had written the words herself in a fit of stubborn optimism and made the sign-maker engrave them twice because the first version had put consent in smaller letters than discretion.
Small-Town Romance
Laura Carpenter
Ana Byrne learned the weight of a secret at half past six on a Tuesday morning, standing barefoot on the cold tile of her bathroom with the sea still black beyond the window and a white plastic stick balanced on the rim of the sink like a verdict too small for the crime. The house was silent around her. Not peaceful. Silence, Ana had decided years ago, was only peace when someone had chosen it kindly.
Contemporary Romance / Heritage Preservation Romance
Laura Carpenter
Archives are built to preserve the past, but deciding what deserves a future is harder. Archivists Dare is a contemporary romance where heritage, conviction and attraction refuse to stay in separate boxes.
Celebrity Romance / Film-Set Family Romance
Caoimhe Kildare
Celebrity Romance
Caoimhe Kildare
Ninety minutes before the country began pretending it had not been waiting for him to fall apart, Jamie Vale stood in a disabled toilet off Studio Three and tried to remember the order of ordinary things. Water first. Face after. Breathing somewhere in between.
Music Industry Romance
Ivy Donnachaidh
The microphone waited under a square of amber light, old chrome polished to a shine that made every secret in the Grand Ole Hall look expensive. Tate McGraw stood three feet from it with his guitar strap cutting a familiar line across his shoulder and his wedding ring hidden in the watch pocket of his black jeans, because some sins were too small for confession and too large for comfort.
Romantic Comedy
Bronagh Fairburn
The Basil War By half past six on a Thursday morning, Lena Hartmann had already ruined one blouse, insulted a basil plant, and discovered that the man in 4B owned a watering can shaped like a duck. The blouse had been white. That was its first mistake. Its second mistake was existing within range of the espresso machine in Lena's kitchen, which had started the day with a cough, a hiss, and then a violent brown sneeze across her ribs.
Gothic Romance
Ailsa Crowe
The solicitor had said Blackthorn House would be difficult to miss. Mara Quinn thought that was the sort of thing men said when they had never arrived anywhere in a hire car during hard rain with a cracked phone screen, a dying battery, and the sick certainty that the past had been sitting upright all these years, waiting for her to come back and look it in the face.
Gothic Romance
Ailsa Crowe
The Summons The letter arrived at 6:17 on a Thursday evening, when Dr Eve Harkin was standing barefoot on her kitchen tile with a mug of cold tea in one hand and a police transcript in the other. She noticed the envelope before she noticed the knock. Cream paper. Heavy. Her name written in black ink by a hand that had either been trained in convent cruelty or old money.
Contemporary Romance / Market Community Romance
Laura Carpenter
The house woke in layers: pipes first, then the low throat-clearing of the kettle, then the soft lamp in the hall throwing lemon-coloured light across the runner Ava kept bunching with her socks. Niamh moved through it all before dawn with the alert, practised quiet of a woman who could not afford a sloppy morning. She liked those first minutes because nobody wanted anything yet.
Contemporary Romance
Bronagh Fairburn
Wedding planner Aoife Byrne is used to fixing other people's disasters, but when a bridesmaid vanishes on the morning of a Boston wedding, Aoife ends up in the satin dress herself. Cian Fairchild—the groom's blunt, practical half-brother from Donegal—sees straight through her emergency-plan armour. What begins as one impossible wedding becomes a romance stretched between Boston and Donegal, where choosing each other means making room for work, family, distance, weather, and a life neither of them has to abandon.
Small-Town Romance
Sorcha Lennox
Ronan O’Doherty had never liked the way the cottage fell quiet at night. It wasn’t real quiet, not with the wind coming in off the Atlantic and rattling the old storm windows, and the sea pushing itself up against the harbour wall like it might finally work out how to climb. The pipes clanked, the turf in the grate sighed and settled, and somewhere down the hall his father snored like a tractor that ought to be retired.
Romantic Comedy
Laura Carpenter
Evidence The morning I finally take the tickets out again, I do it like I’m handling evidence. They’ve been living in the back of my handbag for months, wedged behind receipts and lip balm, as if hiding them could make them less real. Two names printed in neat black type. Two seats. Two weeks in Venice. A honeymoon that never happened because my fiancé left before the wedding and the world kept moving as if heartbreak were a weather system.
Small-Town Romance
Laura Carpenter
Rain stitched the glass over the market into a soft quilt, each pane a patch catching the morning. Up in the loft nook, Aoife Hanratty set her fingertips to the centred clay and listened the way other people watch. A steady wheel, a steady breath. She opened the lump with her thumbs and drew the wall up, guarding it with her palms until a bowl stood there—simple, willing, almost itself.
Medical Romance
Cormac Kearney
Night Ward · Book 1
At Galway University Hospital, the distance between keeping someone alive and letting someone close can be measured in seconds. Breaking Sterile launches Night Ward with two medical professionals carrying impossible pressure, private wounds and a trust neither of them can afford to fake. In a place where life hangs by a thread, intimacy is not an escape from the work — it is another risk with consequences.
Sports Romance
Nessa Calder
Rain stitched the evening into something close and salt-tanged, and Sive Ní Chathasaigh stood with her back to the chain-link, watching cones go down in perfect rows. Her girls trotted out in twos and threes, chatter bouncing; hurleys tapped like impatient metronomes against shins. The floodlights kept their own weather—moths, tiny halos, a hard white sheen on wet grass.
Contemporary Romance / Distillery Romance
Laura Carpenter
A distillery, a complicated attraction and more history than either side can neatly bottle. Cask Strength is a contemporary romance with warmth, friction and a strong sense of place.
Holiday Romance
Aoife Winters
The lighthouse lamp failed twelve days before Christmas, and the first person to notice was the woman everyone in Emerald Harbour had learned not to pity. Mara Keane stood at the end of the pier with a box of donated paper angels under one arm, a municipal clipboard under the other, and the taste of old panic at the back of her throat. Across the black water, Lighthouse Point should have been breathing its steady white pulse over the bay—three seconds of light, three seconds of dark, the town’s oldest reassurance.
Sports Romance / Community Women’s Fiction
Laura Carpenter
Claddaghmore Gaels sequence
Sport, community and the loyalties built around both sit at the heart of Claddaghmore Gaels. It is a romance about belonging to a team, a town and, eventually, to someone.
Sports Romance / Community Wedding Romance
Nessa Calder
Claddaghmore Gaels sequence
A wedding brings the Claddaghmore community together with all the old loyalties, sporting rivalries and romantic complications that follow. County and Wedding is warm, lively and rooted in people who know one another too well.
Romantic Suspense / Journalist-Protector Romance
Skye MacLeod
Sentinel Agency
A journalist, a protector and a story dangerous enough to put both under pressure. Crossfire Vows is romantic suspense where trust has to hold while the truth keeps moving.
Contemporary Romance / Celebrity Family Drama
Laura Carpenter
Public lives and private family fractures meet in Doorways. This contemporary romance is shaped by celebrity, loyalty and the choices made when a familiar life opens onto something new.
Holiday Romance
Aoife Winters
Emergency Contact: Ex Aoife Winters Emergency Contact Ex · Book 1
The first time Maeve Callaghan became someone’s emergency contact, she was half drunk on cheap prosecco and completely sober about the disaster she was marrying. Not that she was marrying him, exactly. Not then. Back then, Finn O’Rourke was twenty-eight, beautiful in a way that annoyed sensible women, and standing in the corridor outside Studio Three with a bleeding eyebrow, a microphone lead round his ankle, and the kind of grin that could get a man forgiven before the crime had even finished introducing itself.
Music-Industry Romantic Suspense / Celebrity Romance
Ivy Donnachaidh
Crisis manager Nora Vale is hired to steady widowed music icon Rowan Keane after a comeback-show leak resurrects a decades-old disappearance. As buried recordings, family loyalties and public scandal close in, the pair must decide whether truth can protect the people they love without destroying the second chance growing between them.
Celebrity Romance
Caoimhe Kildare
Crown & Clover — The Brighthelm Saga
The first lie Maeve Devlin ever told Rowan of Brighthelm was that she had only agreed to the tour because the palace had asked nicely. It was a ridiculous lie, for several reasons. The palace did not ask nicely. It issued invitations in cream envelopes thick enough to stop a small draught, with embossing that looked as if it had been pressed by a man who believed democracy was a passing fever.
Cyber Romantic Suspense / Tech Thriller
Rowan Kincaid
Green Metronome The monitor’s heartbeat went from a green metronome to a jagged hymn and then to a flat white line that sang with a sound Helena Kincaid had spent a decade training her body not to flinch at. NICU. Red wash lighting. A nurse with a halo of flyaway curls whispered keep breathing, little love, and the generator coughed like an old man clearing smoke.
Romantic Comedy
Bronagh Fairburn
The first time Clara Hart flirted with the wrong brother, she was holding a dead centrepiece, wearing one shoe, and lying to a parish priest. In her defence, the centrepiece had not been dead when she collected it from the van. It had been merely dramatic, which was different. White roses were allowed to droop if the room was warm, if the florist had overwatered the foam, or if God had decided that a wedding in Ballycove should begin with a small floral martyrdom.
Later-Life Romance / Multigenerational Family Fiction
Laura Carpenter
Evergreen Market
Small-Town Romance
Sorcha Lennox
Ferry Ticket The ferry terminal at two in the morning looked less like a place for travel than a place where people came to be judged by fluorescent lights. Grace Mallon stood beneath one of them with her hood stuck to the back of her neck, her suitcase listing against her shin, and a paper cup of tea cooling in her hand because she had forgotten she was holding it.

Romantic Suspense / Celebrity Protection
Laura Carpenter
Sentinel Files · Book 2
Protection is supposed to create distance. In Guarded Lights, celebrity, danger and unwanted closeness make that impossible in a romantic suspense story about trust under watch.
Protector Romance
Skye MacLeod
The letter arrived in a dead man’s waterproof coat. Not in the post, not with a neat stamp and a civilised knock, but folded into the oilskin pocket of a fisherman who had been dragged from the Minch with his hands still clenched as if he had tried to hold the sea shut. Isla Kerr saw the coat before she saw the body, and that was what stayed with her: the yellow sleeve lifting in the wind like a warning flag, the black buttons shining wet, the torn cuff caught on the rusted hook beside the pier office door.
Historical Romance / Family Saga
Laura Carpenter
Rowan Glen · Book 1
She was promised a future. She chose a life. Hearth opens the Rowan Glen saga with two people looking across a hard-won Scottish landscape and deciding that home will not be something inherited, granted or guaranteed — it will be something they build. Warm, sweeping and grounded in the practical work of love, family and survival, this is a story about choosing each other when the future has to be made from almost nothing.
Celebrity Romance
Caoimhe Kildare
Highland Hearts · Book 1
The first thing Sorcha Byrne noticed about Ewan MacLeod was that he had learned how to make himself smaller. It was ridiculous, because there was nothing small about him. Not his height, not the breadth of him in the dark wool coat he had not bothered to take off, not the quiet pull he seemed to exert on every person in the holding room without offering them so much as a smile.
Holiday Romance
Aoife Winters
Killarney Wakes Killarney wakes in a hush that tastes of pine and the sea, a breath held between weather fronts, and Niamh Kelleher sets her shoulder to the morning like it’s an old friend. The fairy lights along the front parlour window blink in a slow heartbeat while she ices trays of cinnamon buns, a flurry of sugar settling on the oak like first snow. Radio Kerry chimes the forecast—“a cold snap, mind yourselves”—and in the pause before the kettle clicks, she hears a taxi’s tyres hiss past the guesthouse and splash the kerb.
Historical Romance / Ancient Rome
Eilidh Ross
Laurelvow Romances • Book One
In ancient Rome, physician Aurelia is called beneath the arena to save Cassian Varro, a celebrated champion whose promised freedom is being turned into public spectacle. As medicine, politics, coercive contracts and powerful patrons close around them, Aurelia and Cassian must decide what freedom means when bodies, labour and even the official record can be owned by someone else. Laurelvow is a historical romance about consent, survival and a love that begins where ownership ends.
Contemporary Romance
Laura Carpenter
Wall Notes & Warm Coats
Walls are thin, neighbours notice everything and privacy is never quite as private as hoped. Notting Dale Neighbors finds its romance in proximity, everyday kindness and the trouble of becoming familiar.
Dark Romance
Ciara Voss
Rules of Power · Book 1
Independent counsel Priya Sen is hired to investigate Kade International after a leaked dossier alleges surveillance, coercion and abuse of private data. Adrian Kade expects scrutiny; he does not expect the one woman determined to keep him outside the investigation—or the power exchange neither of them can treat as harmless. A dark contemporary romance about consent, control, privacy and what happens when desire collides with accountability.
Sports Drama Romance
Bronagh Fairburn
High Tide Trilogy · Book 1
After a near-catastrophic rig failure threatens his offshore racing campaign, skipper Ronan Kearney needs one strategist brilliant enough to keep the team competitive: Maeve Sullivan, the navigator tied to the part of his past he has never managed to put right. Bringing her back to County Down means old loyalties, old hurt and championship pressure collide on the same deck. Off Course is a high-stakes sports romance about trust under pressure, second chances and two people learning that winning means very little if they repeat the same old mistakes.
Romantic Comedy
Bronagh Fairburn
Kiss & Cry Club • · Book 1
The Last Ordinary Thing The first sign that Evan Mercer was about to ruin Róisín Quinn’s life was that he stopped protecting his left shoulder. Not recklessly. Evan Mercer had not survived seventeen years of pair skating, two Olympic cycles, four surgeries, one wedding, seven coaches, eleven international flights delayed by weather, and a deeply personal feud with airline baggage handlers by being reckless.
Equestrian Romantic Suspense / Sports Romance
Keela Northmere
After a championship accident shatters elite rider Maeve Callaghan’s certainty, recovery pulls her back into a world of horses, family pressure, sabotage and surveillance—where trust must be rebuilt carefully enough to become a choice rather than another command.
Contemporary Irish Coastal Romance
Bridie Byrne McGuinness
The needle liked to sing when Willow worked—thin notes of metal and breath that soothed brides and steadied her own hands. Today it trembled. She tightened the corset laces the way her mother had taught her—two pulls, one whisper—and the bodice closed like a secret around the young woman’s ribs. Outside the atelier’s front glass, two men in municipal jackets loitered beside a clipboard and a strip of yellow tape that was not quite tape, not yet.
Contemporary Romance / Neurodiversity-Aware Women's Fiction
Laura Carpenter
Paediatric occupational therapist Keira believes environments can be made kinder. Carpenter Liam believes broken things deserve patient hands. A sensory-friendly school project brings them together—and shows them that love, like a good room, is built through listening, boundaries, and small acts repeated until safety feels ordinary.
Contemporary Romance / Women's Fiction / Family Mystery
Laura Carpenter
Cottage Inheritance · Book 1
Aoife Byrne expects to inherit Primrose Cottage. She does not expect Cillian Hayes to own half of it—or a will requiring them to live there before either can sell. Then a second key opens a room under the stairs, and an old family feud begins to look less like history than a cover story.
Romantic Comedy / Community Romance
Bronagh Fairburn
Fionn Meadowes Romantic Comedies
Romantic Fantasy
Aisling Vire
Dúnmara Chronicles · Book 1
Gothic Romance
Ailsa Crowe
Some legacies should stay buried. Some loves refuse to. The Ghost at Ravensmere opens the gates to a moonlit coastal estate where inheritance, desire and dangerous truths refuse to remain politely in the past. Ailsa Crowe blends gothic atmosphere, haunted family history and romance into a story where the house remembers more than its living occupants are prepared to admit.
Contemporary Romantic Suspense / Infrastructure Thriller
Keir Devlin
Infrastructure engineer Isla MacCrae catches an abnormal tilt at a rain-battered viaduct while management calls it weather and reputational risk. Coastguard rescuer Ewan hears the danger too. As failed cameras, altered logs and overloaded freight point toward deliberate interference, Isla must hold the line long enough to keep a sleeper train—and the town beneath it—safe, while trusting the steady man who refuses to let her stand alone.
Romantic Comedy / Second-Chance Romance
Bronagh Fairburn
Two years after Aunt Deirdre’s death, Maeve Harrington receives one final instruction: bring a plus-one to her parents’ anniversary dinner, but not a safe lie. Then Rory Gallagher—the chaotic, camera-carrying man tied to the worst night of Maeve’s life—turns up on her doorstep. Three weeks, one empty chair and a town full of opinions leave Maeve facing the second chance she never planned to admit she wanted.
Romantic Suspense / Family-Safety Romance
Laura Carpenter
Devlin Grove
Four years after Cillian Devlin left Belfast at seventeen for a life in London, he returns to Devlin Grove and finds Saoirse Tierney raising the twins he never knew. Saoirse survived pregnancy, violence, and the years he missed; wanting back in is not enough. As Cillian learns the ordinary work of fatherhood and Saoirse decides whether staying can ever feel safer than leaving, the tree where they first promised forever becomes the witness to a second chance neither of them can claim without earning.
Holiday Romance
Aoife Winters
Molly Hayes knew the exact sound a lie made when it arrived in a town that still pretended gossip was community care. It came in bright little pings. It came dressed as concern. It came while she was flipping Sunday pancakes one-handed, holding her phone between chin and shoulder, and telling seven other mothers that yes, of course she had remembered the raffle tickets, the gluten-free buns, and the permission slips for the children who were allergic to everything except chaos.