Books

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...

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,...

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...

Velvet Mercy unfolds on a windswept Irish hill where a once-derelict chapel has been remade into a place that keeps faith with people—not dogma. Mercy, a woman who has learned to repair timber and lives with the splinters of her past, opens the door and never asks for the right words. Lumen, fierce and funny, is the girl learning to belong...

Justice fails where process leaks. Defence counsel Cassidy Hart has built a career on keeping the pipes clean—and on never promising what the facts can’t carry. When a woman falls from a luxury tower, the city chooses its most convenient suspect: Aidan Ward, a contractor with proximity, motive-shaped rumours, and the wrong midnight on a CCTV...

Rain-slicked Belfast. A family on the brink. A woman who refuses to go down on the mat.

Stronger Than Fists is an emotionally charged Belfast novel about resilience, found family, and the complicated tenderness between love and survival. When Maeve Kelly is pulled back to the city she swore she’d left behind—her mother in hospital, her younger...

Ballad of the Broken
A Novel of Found Family, Fierce Hope, and Songs That Refuse to Die
By Laura Carpenter

They came from nowhere. A bus stop. A fire escape. A back-alley open mic and a final voicemail never returned. Strangers, misfits, dreamers—each of them battered by their own private heartbreak, drawn together by a city that chews up talent...

She Stayed Anyway is not a love story.It’s the story of what happens after the fairytale ends.From award-nominated Irish author Laura Carpenter comes a searing, lyrical novel about a woman who gave her body, her voice, her youth—and stayed in the aftermath of silence. Inspired by true events and told through letters, cassette tapes, and journal...

The Songs We Never Finished
A Novel by Laura Carpenter

Some stories don’t end. They echo through generations.

Mara O’Connell has always feared silence more than sorrow. Raised in a home where music was memory and grief was inherited like bone structure, she thought she knew how to carry pain—until the day she lost her mother, her voice, and her way...

Velvet
By Laura Carpenter
A House Built on Secrets. A Contract Bound in Desire. A Dynasty at War.

He’s the king of couture. She’s the girl who was never supposed to return.

When Eliza Morelli walks back into the glittering world of high fashion, she’s not a muse. She’s not a model. She’s the daughter of the seamstress who vanished without a trace—...

When life gets loud, calm can feel like something other people are born with. It isn’t. Calm is a skill — and you can build it in small, believable steps.
The Calm After Chaos is a plain-language guide for overwhelmed, capable people who keep showing up even when their bodies are tense, their minds won’t stop, and the world won’t slow down....

A kiss at the back of the church wall turns Maeve O’Rourke into parish gossip overnight. Now Sean Dolan is back in her orbit, her daughter is listening, and Maeve has to decide whether she’ll keep surviving—or finally choose love on her own terms.

Maeve O’Rourke doesn’t do scandal—until she’s caught kissing a man at the back of the church wall.
By...

He’s a widowed dad holding his home together with sheer will.
She’s the woman trying to keep the whole community from falling apart.
After Aisling’s death, Darragh Kavanagh survives on routine: school runs, packed lunches, and the kind of grief that hides in ordinary things. Niamh works at the local family centre—the place people go when they’re...

She built her life on steadiness.
On rules.
On never needing anyone to hold the door open for her.
Then a complaint lands on her desk—calculated, malicious, designed to unravel everything she’s worked for.
And in the middle of the fallout, she discovers she’s pregnant.
Alone.
Except she isn’t.
Because the man who once knew her better than anyone—the...

Every system leaves ashes.
Some women light the match.
When investigative journalist Dara Quinn’s closest friend dies under circumstances the city calls “unfortunate,” Dara calls it what it is: deliberate.
Belfast is built on stone, silence, and men who believe power belongs to them.
Dara has spent years reporting around the edges of corruption. Now...

An Irish-set paranormal romance with romantasy worldbuilding, where a rare hybrid and an alpha heir choose their bond in defiance of fate.

She was marked by the Veil before she ever chose it.
Now she’ll decide what the mark means.
Saoirse Ní Dhorchaí has lived her whole life between systems—between homes, between rules, between worlds. A rare...

Síofra’s job is to cover golf—not become the headline.
Ciarán’s job is to win, smile for the cameras, and keep his private life private.
Then one small “incident” turns Holywood and Belfast into a rumour factory, and suddenly the presenter and the golfer are stuck in the same storm: dodging gossip, managing egos, and pretending their banter isn’t...

In a town where the distillery keeps the lights on and the stories alive, Niamh knows how to measure what matters—flavour, timing, distance. She’s a chemist and a taster, brought in to help launch a flagship whiskey that could save the place… or sell its soul.
Jamie has spent his life in the cooperage, hands blackened by iron hoops and oak dust,...

Some loves don’t burn out.
They don’t explode and disappear.
They sink deeper with time.
From award-winning author Laura Carpenter comes Book Two in the Devlin Grove Trilogy — a sweeping Irish romance about second chances, unfinished love, and the courage to choose connection over fear.
She left to survive.
He stayed to hold everything together.
Years...

Devlin Grove has a way of holding on to people. It keeps your history close, your secrets closer, and your heart right where it can be found—usually when you least expect it.
From award-winning author Laura Carpenter comes the final book in the Devlin Grove Trilogy: What the River Takes, an emotional Irish romance about love that endures, the...