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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.
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.
Psychological Horror
Lachlan Ashen
Independent investigator Mara Vale is publicly discredited at a national integrity hearing when impossible ash, a sealed childhood institution called Ash House, and the voice of her missing brother force her back toward the family secrets and official records she has spent her career exposing.
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 Women's Fiction
Laura Carpenter
The first notice arrived folded into the mouth of a brown envelope and stamped twice, as if the county itself had lost patience and struck the paper harder the second time. Nóra Harte found it on the kitchen table at six fourteen in the morning, beneath the chipped blue mug her mother had used until the day she died, beside a school permission slip for Finn’s hurling blitz and three coins saved for the hospital vending machine.
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.
Medical-Legal Thriller
E. L. Doherty
The gavel cracked once—sharp, echoing against the wood-paneled walls—and every muscle in Nina Daley’s body went rigid. She told herself it was muscle memory. Pavlov’s dog with a baritone hammer. The sound that had ended her life once before. Her fingers brushed the worn leather of the briefcase at her side, a second-hand buy from a consignment shop near Dupont Circle, the place that catered to the daughters of ambassadors who didn’t care where the money came from.
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.