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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.
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.
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 / 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.
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 Comedy / Community Romance
Bronagh Fairburn
Fionn Meadowes Romantic Comedies
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.