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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.
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.