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Laura Carpenter

Laura Carpenter

Laura Carpenter is an award-winning Irish-hearted storyteller who has published more than forty books across multiple romance and fiction universes. She writes about storms and courage, found families, quiet revolutions, and love that protects. Her stories live where everyday life meets extraordinary human resilience — in community halls, coastal harbours, sports grounds, kitchens lit by kettle steam, and the places we hold each other together.
She is the creator behind Emerald Harbour House, her publishing home for many imprints and pen names — from soft community romances and coastal emotional dramas to Crown & Clover prestige sagas, ethical sports love stories, velvet-dark glamour romances, myth-threaded Belfast fantasy as Nessa Morrigan, and procedural fiction as L. M. Ward.
Across every lane and alias, Laura writes with the same promise: no cheap cruelty, no broken trust, emotionally safe journeys, deeply earned love, and endings that take care of the reader’s heart.
With an ever-growing catalogue and readership, she is building something rare — a universe of books readers don’t just consume, but live inside.

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Emerald pitch

He’s the king of the pitch. She’s the girl who walked away before the final whistle.Jamie Harte has built his life around GAA — captain, hometown hero, the man everyone in the club counts on when the game is tight and the lights are blinding. Off the field, though, his life is a tangle of old mistakes and half-finished apologies, and there’s one...

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A Better Ending

In an Irish coastal city where the wind carries every secret, two people who should know better decide to risk a different kind of truth. A Better Ending is an upmarket contemporary romance about consent, care, and the quiet bravery it takes to build a family-first future in public.

She’s spent years curating calm—courtroom composure, tidy lists,...

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Borrow Skin

Rain beads on the glass. On the bench lies a folded note — When you’re ready. Inside a room that isn’t meant to save anyone, two people learn the slow grammar of care.Borrowed Skin is an intimate, book-club romance about consent, ritual, and the quiet courage it takes to begin again. In a coastal Irish town where storms roll in without asking...

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A Day in the Life of an Author Who Refuses to Relax

(Or: How I Publish Like a Machine While Parenting 3 Kids, Herding 3 Cats, Surviving Legal Admin… and Still Rebuilding My...

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Put the kettle on, take a breath, and settle in with me for a moment—because this isn’t just an update. This is a milestone. A “look how far we’ve come,...

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