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Mystery

A Broken Kind of Season

Aileen Muir

The hours before the ceremony had given no warning except the kind people ignore because ordinary life is noisy. Finn had woken to Nell singing to her cereal. His mother had coughed in the hallway and told everyone she was fine in a voice that meant she was absolutely not. His father had burned toast, scraped it, burned the scraped toast, and finally served everyone Weetabix with the solemnity of a man making legal reparations.

Gothic Romance / Historical Mystery

A Candle in the West Wing

Ailsa Crowe

Legal Thriller

A City of Small Mercies

Keir Devlin

Triage The first thing Róisín Hart heard when she stepped into the custody corridor was a man shouting that he knew his rights. The second thing was her mother’s voice, coming from somewhere behind the vending machine, saying, “I’m not being dramatic, love, but if you don’t ring me before eleven, I do assume you’re dead in a ditch.” Róisín stopped so sharply that the heel of her boot clipped the skirting board.

Historical Romance

A Duchess in the Rain

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.

Medieval Historical

A Glass Kind of Equation

Fergus MacAlpin

The glass cracked before the bell finished ringing. Not the sharp little complaint of a cup knocked from a trestle, nor the bright death of a bottle under a boot, but a long, singing wound that moved through the high east window of Saint Bride’s like a blade being drawn from a sheath. Every head in the nave lifted. Every whisper fell. Even the gulls outside seemed to hold their greedy throats.

Holiday Family Fiction

A Hearth for the Holidays

Nollaig Caird

The letter arrived on Christmas Eve with no stamp, no return address, and ash caught in the fold like a secret that had survived a fire. Orla Devane knew better than to touch it. She had spent fifteen years building a life out of that exact discipline: do not touch what can burn you, do not ask questions that have already cost you a home, do not go back to Emerald Harbour simply because an old woman dies and the dead get sentimental with timing.

Historical Women’s Fiction / Family Saga

A Honey Kind of Sisterhood

Evelyn MacLaren

Warmth and strain live side by side in A Honey Kind of Sisterhood. This historical family story follows women, loyalty and the ties that hold even when a household begins to change.

Book Club Fiction

A House Built Sideways

Fiadh Callister

The locket arrived in the committee room inside a cake tin that had once belonged to somebody’s grandmother, which meant, in Ardglass Junction, that no one touched it without first complimenting the tin. It was blue enamel, chipped along the rim, lined with greaseproof paper, and placed with theatrical care in the exact centre of the trestle table beneath the newly framed photograph of the restored station.

Contemporary Women's Fiction

A House Full Again

Laura Carpenter

Nearly a year after his wife’s death, Cork father Darragh Kavanagh is keeping five children moving through school runs, grief, and a house that no longer sounds the same. When family-support worker Niamh Sloane keeps the door open without trying to rescue him, practical help becomes companionship, and the crowded life Darragh thought was over begins filling up again.

Victorian Historical

A Last Kind of Empire

Isla Bannock

Elspeth Vale was supposed to secure her father’s future with one obedient yes. Instead, she refuses Lord Haverford before a room full of London witnesses—and before dawn a blood-marked ledger appears on the steps of her father’s Belgravia house. The book bears the crest of the Imperial Textile Concern and a warning: if she marries Haverford, the ledger disappears. If she wants to know what her father’s empire truly costs, she must come alone to an abandoned dye house before noon. Elspeth has spent her life learning the rules that keep respectable women safe. Now every rule points back toward silence. Following the ledger means risking family, reputation and the only world she has ever known. Ignoring it may mean becoming part of the machinery it records.

Marriage Fiction

A Marriage at Low Tide

Laura Carpenter

The first tribunal notice arrived in a brown envelope with the tide still low enough to show the black ribs of the harbour wall. Nessa Harte found it wedged under the schoolbag her daughter had abandoned beside the kitchen table, half hidden by a county jersey that should have been washed two nights ago and a lunch note that read: Remember the yogurt this time, Mam, because I am not emotionally built for a dry sandwich.

Small-Town Romance

A Photograph That Arrived Dry

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.

Celebrity Romance

A Star Comes Home

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

A Thousand Small Returns

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.

Historical Women’s Fiction

A Velvet Kind of House

Isla Bannock

A house can keep its manners long after the people inside it stop believing in them. A Velvet Kind of House looks at family, expectation and the private cost of maintaining a polished life.

Family Secrets Fiction

A Voice Like Home

Rhys MacIan

Home can be a place, a person or simply the voice you recognise when everything else has changed. A Voice Like Home is family-centred women’s fiction about belonging, pressure and the relationships that call us back.

Speculative Fiction

A Window That Looks Back

Eira Vossan

The window had been bricked over for twenty-nine years, which was the first sensible thing about it. Clara Finch knew this because she had signed the repair ledger herself every December since her mother died, written the same neat line beside the same dead wall in the little back room of Finch House Library: no movement, no damp, no visible fracture. Her father had done it before her in a softer hand.

Epic Fantasy

AONMARA The Fifth Ring

Aisling Vire

Book One of The Fifth Ring Saga · Book 1

The Tide Went Wrong The tide went wrong three nights before the dead fisherman came home. Not with storm. Storms belonged to ordinary fear, and ordinary fear had rules. Storms broke masts. Storms drowned cattle in low fields. Storms tore slates from roofs and left women standing in doorways counting names into the dark with shaking hands and practical voices.

Reinvention Fiction

After the Last School Run

Mairéad Kellan

The last school run began with a lunchbox Maggie Byrne could not bring herself to throw away. It sat on the passenger seat of her car at twenty past eight on a wet Tuesday morning, pink plastic gone cloudy at the corners, one hinge cracked, the faded sticker of a cartoon fox half-peeled from the lid. There was nothing inside it except a folded kitchen towel and the stale ghost of apple slices, but Maggie had washed it twice the night before, dried it with the good tea towel, and set it by the kettle as though Aoife might come downstairs half asleep and ask where her blue jumper was.

Sports Romance

After the Match

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.

Family Drama / Film and Celebrity Romance

After the Silence

Iona Merrick

Lucy Steele had never seen so many mirrors. They lined every wall of the hallway, reflecting endless versions of herself — small and pale, eyes wide with cautious curiosity, dark curls bouncing slightly around her shoulders. She paused, mesmerized, reaching one finger out to touch her own reflection, leaving behind a smudge that blurred her image just enough to make it seem less real, more like a dream.

Contemporary Family Drama / Medical Romance

After the Wave

Laura Carpenter

When paediatric neurologist Niamh Kavanagh’s son suffers a seizure while his father Ciarán is trapped coordinating a flood response, an old fracture in their family opens again. Years later, when disaster forces duty, medicine and home onto the same fault line, Niamh and Ciarán must decide whether surviving the next wave means finally rebuilding what the last one broke.

Small-Town Romance

All the Little Safeties

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.

Marriage Fiction / Second-Chance Romance / Women's Fiction

All the Years I Never Saw You

Laura Carpenter

After actor Gabriel Hart's affair is exposed at a London premiere, his pregnant wife Clara must decide whether fifteen years of marriage can survive the truth. When a lost family locket sends Gabriel into twelve defining moments from their shared past, he learns that seeing what he missed cannot erase what he did—and that a second chance must be chosen in the present.

Contemporary Romance / Heritage Preservation Romance

Archivists Dare

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.

Celtic Fantasy

Ashes at Blackwater

Sadhbh Éireann

On the day Bríd Ó Corráin is buried, blood boils beneath a kettle in the Blackwater Arms and her missing St Brigid medal rises from it with a warning: the fourth ash wakes. As Niamh confronts the enigmatic Cian Vale and the secrets her family kept in the name of survival, a drowned kingdom lights beneath Blackwater Harbour and an ancient oath tied to her blood begins to break.

Space Opera

Asteriad

Cael Ardmore

the Asteriad Sequence · Book 1

Twelve years before every gate in human space learned her voice, Orla Kavanagh stood beneath Gate Twelve with a paper star in her pocket and a lie on her departure record. The lie was small enough to pass beneath notice. Archive tender maintenance. Three-person crew. Routine reciprocal inspection between Cork Ring and Vespera. Return window: four hours. Cargo: calibration glass, lattice probes, two sealed boxes of authenticated civic records, one spare pressure seal, and nothing that could inconvenience the Concord.

Women's Fiction / Small-Town Romantic Comedy

Aunties of the Apocalypse

Laura Carpenter

Small-town life is rarely quiet when the aunties have opinions. Aunties of the Apocalypse mixes community meddling, family loyalty and romantic chaos with the particular danger of everybody knowing everybody.

Celebrity Romance / Film-Set Family Romance

Backlot and Bedtimes

Caoimhe Kildare

Jacobite Historical

Before the Brave Key

Mairi Douglas

The key was still warm from the dead woman’s hand when Eilidh Cameron understood that loyalty had a sound: iron against bone, small as a breath, final as a kirk bell. She stood in the back passage of Harbour House with her apron streaked in lampblack and rain, while the dining room beyond the green baize door roared with men pretending history was something they could drink into obedience.

Edwardian Historical

Before the Broken Archive

Rowan Abernathy

The scandal began with a teacup, which was absurd enough to make London remember it. Not the kind of teacup a woman chose for comfort, not the thin blue china kept near a sickbed or the thick brown mug a kitchen maid wrapped both hands around before dawn. This one was porcelain from Limoges, painted with green vines and a rim of worn gilt, and it shattered against the marble hearth in the east drawing room of Ravenhurst House at precisely five minutes past four on an April afternoon in 1908.

Book Club Fiction

Before the Golden Promise

Fiadh Callister

The promise broke in front of everyone. It did not crack quietly in a kitchen or soften into something private and survivable; it snapped beneath the gold lights of the town hall, with three hundred phones raised, a minister smiling too hard, and Evelyn Hart standing at the lectern with her dead mother's brooch pinned over her heart like a little sun that had forgotten how to warm anything.

Medieval Historical

Before the Iron Chapel

Fergus MacAlpin

The bell from the iron chapel rang once before dawn, though every man in Emerald Harbour knew the chapel had no bell. It had not had one since the old raid, when fire took the roof, sea-wind took the ashes, and Lord Bradan's men swore the saints themselves had gone silent rather than bless the blood that soaked the flagstones. Fergus MacAlpin heard that single impossible note while standing ankle-deep in the tidal mud with a stolen child under his cloak and his own clan's oath-stone warm against his breast.

Historical Women's Fiction

Before the Lantern Sisterhood

Evelyn Ashford

When Elspeth March lifted the brass lantern from beneath her dead mother's bed, the handle came away black with soot and old blood. She did not scream. By twenty-nine, a woman who had buried a mother, kept a classroom through three winters of hunger, and learned to smile while men explained civilisation to her had spent all her screaming where no one could invoice her for the noise.

Irish Historical

Before the Last Ballad

Branna O'Dwyer

Emerald Harbour, 1882. Schoolmistress Nóra Friel turns a respectable charity concert into an act of rebellion when she sings the forbidden final verse of her father's ballad, exposing the hunger and evictions powerful men prefer unnamed. Arrested into the uneasy custody of Cormac Ó Dálaigh—a childhood friend now working among the very ledgers the town distrusts—Nóra discovers the song may point to proof of stolen relief, illegal evictions and a conspiracy her father died carrying.

Historical Women's Fiction

Before the Scarlet Ballad

Evelyn Ashford

The scarlet ribbon arrived before the accusation, which meant someone had planned mercy with one hand and ruin with the other. It lay across the silver salver like a vein drawn out of a living wrist, bright against the morning paper, brighter still against the ash-coloured light of the breakfast room. Clara Whitcombe did not touch it. A woman who had survived twenty-seven years in a house where silence was a language learned the value of letting objects speak first.

Irish Historical Fiction

Before the Scarlet Season

Branna O'Dwyer

Before the Scarlet Season lives in the uneasy space before change, when ordinary routines begin to carry a different weight. An Irish historical novel about family loyalties, private choices and what people sense before they are ready to name it.

Romantic Comedy

Berlin Balcony Bet

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

Blackthorn Mercy

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.

Science Fiction

Blackwater Paradox

E. M. Keane

Time-Split Hearts · Book 1

At 19:07 on Blackwater Bridge, a temporal overlap opens and Elias Mercer comes face to face with Nora Bell—the woman he remembers as his wife, and who does not remember him at all. A handwritten note, a watch and physical traces from another timeline suggest their impossible marriage was real, while the lab studying the anomaly grows dangerously interested in what can cross between worlds. Blackwater Paradox is a time-slip romantic suspense novel about memory, evidence and whether love can survive when time itself keeps rewriting the record.

Contemporary Women's Fiction

Blackwater Road Club

Laura Carpenter

Rain came sideways over the Blackwater Road pitch, the sort of rain that did not fall so much as arrive with an opinion. It drove under hoods, into sleeves, behind collars, into the soft places at the back of the knees where tracksuit bottoms clung and gave up. By half past seven on a February evening, every coat along the sideline had gone the same dark colour.

Contemporary Romance / Market Community Romance

Bloom and Brine

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

Borrowed Bridesmaid

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.

Sports Romance / Community Women’s Fiction

Claddaghmore Gaels

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.

Chapter Books

Clodagh and the Teacup Train

Clodagh Fairlie

Avelrow Chapter Book Shelf

The first coat lifted off its peg at ten minutes past four, which was a terrible time for a coat to develop opinions. It was Mrs Hegarty's yellow raincoat, the one with two pockets full of old receipts and one sleeve that smelt faintly of peppermint creams. It rose slowly, as if trying not to be noticed, and bumped its hood against the ceiling of St Brigid Community Hall.

Psychological Horror

Come Home, Mara Vale

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.

Sports Romance / Community Wedding Romance

County and Wedding

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.

Contemporary Women's Fiction

Crossing Home

Laura Carpenter

The ferry bell rang once for the living and twice for the dead, and on Inish Rua everyone knew which count the sea preferred. By nine that November night, Captain Niall O’Rourke had already carried three nurses, a crate of antibiotics, two sacks of lamb meal, and one furious priest across a black channel that had no interest in mercy. The fourth crossing should have been cancelled.

Cozy Mystery

Death at the Jam Table

Bridie Rowan

At Ballycuan's St Brigid fair, jam judge Fintan Vale is found dead beside two near-identical blackberry jars—one bearing Mara Kelleher's name. As librarian Cillian Struan notices an old recipe card, a stained heritage map and a storm lamp tied to secrets the village would rather preserve, a cozy competition becomes an investigation into buried family and community history.

Contemporary Family Drama / Protective Romance

Doors Before Diamonds

Laura Carpenter

All the Law The mornings settled themselves into a choreography no one had rehearsed but all of them somehow knew. Maeve kept one palm curved under Sorcha’s small skull and the other balancing Seamus’s bottle while the kettle ticked itself toward the boil. RJ clattered bowls like cymbals, delighted to be assigned “dry hand” for the breakfast-table clean-line; Ellie prowled barefoot in her bunny pyjamas until she made her choice—up, always up—and scaled Rowan as if he were the only mountain on the island, koala-clinging to his shoulder with the solemn focus of a mountaineer and then dissolving into giggles when he swayed.

Contemporary Romance / Celebrity Family Drama

Doorways

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.

Music-Industry Romantic Suspense / Celebrity Romance

Encore for Two

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.

Contemporary Women's Fiction

Every Room Has a Witness

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.

Missing Person Thriller

Everyone Saw Her Leave

Aidan Kerrigan

Emerald Harbour Missing • · Book 1

1989 By half nine the summer carnival had stopped pretending it belonged to children. The toddlers with painted cheeks had been carried home sticky with sugar. The parish raffle had ended in a dispute over a ham nobody admitted wanting. Teenagers had taken possession of the grass behind Saint Brigid’s Hall, the older boys leaning against the railings as if they had personally invented cigarettes, the girls moving in bright packs between the music tent and the harbour road.

Women's Fiction / Romantic Suspense

Ferry Weather

Rhys MacIan

On the Galway coast, Nora Fahey faces a possession notice that threatens Ardglass House and uncovers a buried family scandal, while Ciaran Vale returns with evidence that the fight over her home reaches far beyond property. A women's fiction romantic suspense novel about family, inheritance, truth, and the price of staying.

Later-Life Romance / Multigenerational Family Fiction

Forever Ours

Laura Carpenter

Evergreen Market

Family Saga

Four Generations of June

Malcolm Inveraray

On the morning the house chose its witness, June Muir laid four photographs on the kitchen table and turned each one face down. She did it with the care other women reserved for communion cloths or newborn cardigans: thumb at the corner, breath held, heart behaving itself only because she had trained it, over seventy-six years, to keep quiet in company. The table was older than any living person in Ardglassan.

Contemporary Women's Fiction

Fragment of Us

Laura Carpenter

First Light Ciara remembered forever as a word Daniel had once spoken without ceremony, in a doorway dampened by rain, when neither of them yet understood how memory could turn a promise into disputed evidence. The kettle worried at the quiet behind her. Rain silvered the window, and the flat seemed to gather itself around the question he had brought home. Daniel stood with rain darkening his shoulders, steady and uncertain at once, as though courage were simply the refusal to leave before hearing the answer.

Historical Romance / Family Saga

Hearth

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.

Holiday Romance

Killarney Christmas

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

Laurelvow

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.

Medical-Legal Thriller

Lets Go Counsel

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.

Reinvention Fiction

Marrowglass After Closing

Mairéad Kellan

The cracked blue teacup was waiting on the coffin as if the dead woman had set it down herself and nipped out to scold the caterers. Nobody admitted seeing who put it there. Nobody admitted anything at Marrowglass House unless admission came with a tax advantage, a photographer, or a solicitor present. Mairéad Callan noticed it first because she had spent forty-two years noticing the thing everyone else tried to look past.

Civic Cozy Mystery

Minutes of a Marriage That Did Not Sit

Orla Ashdown

Councillor and part-time actress Imogen Vale discovers the official minutes say she cast the deciding vote to demolish St Brigid's Court—the estate where her sister lives—even though the same record marks her absent and she was performing miles away. A mysterious notation points to an obsolete spousal-proxy rule and drags her estranged husband, county archivist Daniel, into a civic mystery about forged procedure, altered records and who has the power to make a false decision become official truth.

Mother–Daughter Fiction

Mother of the Bride and Other Wars

Fiona Ainslie

The first war began with a seating plan and a dead woman’s handwriting. It was not the dramatic sort of war, not at first. No one threw a vase, no one fainted beautifully into the arms of a man with a square jaw and an inconveniently available inheritance, and no one announced a secret pregnancy over smoked salmon. It began, as most family wars do, with a woman standing alone in a kitchen at midnight, holding a piece of paper that should have been blank.

Sports Drama Romance

Off Course

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.

Equestrian Romantic Suspense / Sports Romance

Reinbound

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.

Adventure Readers

Ruairi and the River That Ran Uphill

Ruairí Faolán

Twelve-year-old Ruairi Faolan knows water is supposed to run downhill—until the stream outside Harbour House School climbs the yard and an old Ravenmere ledger knocks beneath his hand. When a century-old ferry ticket appears with his name on it and a sealed school wing opens onto an impossible stair, Ruairi learns the town once borrowed ten children from the river and never properly returned them.

Memoir

Salt on the Good China

Fiona Strathmore

The ring was in the salt jar because my mother had trusted salt more than banks, solicitors, priests, daughters, and men with clean cuffs. Cillian Struan found it with his thumb bleeding into a saucer of coarse flakes while half the parish stood behind him pretending not to stare. I was holding the good china when he said my name, and for one bright, stupid second I thought he had broken a cup.

Historical Romance / Family Saga

Saltwater Vows

Eilidh Ross

Family Secrets Fiction

Summer of Almost Everything

Rhys MacIan

Contemporary Irish Coastal Romance

THE LION'S LOST HEIR

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.

Scottish Historical Fiction / Political Saga

The Broken Crown Legacy

Alina MacRae

The Broken Crown Legacy

Power passes through families as surely as memory does. The Broken Crown Legacy is a Scottish political saga about inheritance, divided loyalties and what survives after authority itself begins to fracture.

Contemporary Romance / Women's Fiction / Family Mystery

The Cottage We Promised

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.

Contemporary Women's Fiction

The Council of Sisters

Laura Carpenter

On national election count day in Wicklow, Nóra Kelleher receives evidence that could destroy careers, expose a buried family scandal, and prove that the women dismissed as background players have been keeping the county’s real record all along. As political pressure closes in, sisters, mothers and daughters must decide whether protecting family still means protecting the lie.

Romantic Comedy / Community Romance

The Doctor Is on Air

Bronagh Fairburn

Fionn Meadowes Romantic Comedies

Epic Fantasy

The Drowned Oath

Aisling Vire

Dúnmara Chronicles · Book 4

The drowned boat came home without its men at the hour when the tide should have been going out. By then, Cara O’Dálaigh had learned to distrust every mercy that arrived clean. A boat returning was supposed to be a blessing. A small one, perhaps, compared with childbirth, harvest, fever breaking before dawn, or a husband’s hand finding yours beneath a table while men argued law around you as if women were furniture with opinions.

Gothic Romance

The Ghost at Ravensmere

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.

Cozy Romantasy

The Hearth Witch and the Sea Prince

Iseabail Moonan

House Six Romantasy • Book One

Hearth magic meets saltwater royalty in The Hearth Witch and the Sea Prince. A cosy romantasy about belonging, bargains and two very different worlds finding common ground.

Contemporary Women's Fiction

The Man Who Stayed

Laura Carpenter

The kettle was cold. That was the first thing Aisling Moore noticed when she opened the back door of her father’s house and let herself into the kitchen where half her childhood had happened in steam, quarrels, rashers, and people pretending not to cry. Not the dust lying grey along the windowsill. Not the stack of unopened letters held down by a chipped mug with GARDA COMMUNITY RAFFLE 2009 fading from blue to a tired sort of purple.

Women’s Fiction / Institutional Suspense

The Mercy Name

Laura Carpenter

Names can protect, conceal and bind people to institutions long after the paperwork says otherwise. The Mercy Name blends women’s fiction with institutional suspense, keeping family, identity and accountability close to the centre.

Contemporary Women's Fiction

The Radio Hour

Laura Carpenter

When a community radio broadcast exposes missing housing files and coerced family decisions, production assistant Nóra Hynes learns how quickly a microphone can become evidence. Years later, with the old scandal threatening the fragile life she has built, Nóra must decide whether protecting her family means keeping quiet—or turning the red light back on and letting the county hear what powerful people worked so hard to bury.

Edwardian Historical Fiction / Women’s Historical Fiction

The River Ballad

Rowan Abernathy

An Edwardian historical novel from Rowan Abernathy, pairing women's historical fiction with intimate consequence, social pressure and emotionally grounded storytelling.

Contemporary Women's Fiction

The Sons of Emergency Light

Laura Carpenter

The first emergency light in the Galway count centre went red at twenty-three minutes past six, and every person beneath it pretended not to notice. That was how counties survived themselves: by giving danger a polite nod, making room for it beside the tea urn, and calling the whole performance community. Maeve Killeen noticed. She always noticed. Door codes, lanyard colours, the way a superintendent held his phone face down when a councillor’s wife passed, the little pause before a clerk said a name that used to be protected by old money.

Upmarket Women’s Fiction

The Summer We Told the Truth

Seren Muir

Some summers divide a life into before and after. The Summer We Told the Truth is a quiet, emotionally observant novel about family truths, reinvention and what becomes possible once silence is no longer useful.

Romantic Suspense / Family-Safety Romance

The Ties That Made Us

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.

Scottish Historical Fiction / Historical Romance

The Winter Republic

Alina MacRae

When Eilidh Ross splits the king’s seal and refuses an order for winter evictions, one act of defiance turns the Scottish town of Inverglass into the beginning of a republic. With soldiers closing the roads and ordinary families forced to choose between obedience and survival, Captain Fraser becomes an uneasy ally in a cause neither of them can control—and a dangerous intimacy neither expected.

Contemporary Women’s Fiction / Romance

Where We Stayed

Laura Carpenter

Leaving and staying are rarely opposites when a place is tangled up with family and love. Where We Stayed is contemporary women’s fiction about attachment, change and the relationships that make home difficult to define.

Holiday Romance

Wrong Chat Right Man

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.