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.