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They were childhood soulmates, torn apart by violence and silence. Now he’s back — a stranger with a famous face and the same blue eyes that haunt her son. In a Belfast divided by politics and pain, can love survive the scars left behind?

The Ties That Made Us is the first novel in the Devlin Grove saga — a sweeping, emotional story of young...

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The contract sat on Lucia’s desk like a dare she hadn’t dared to take—a promise bound in ink and ribbons, and a wound that refused to heal. Once, she believed Jamie’s vow that signing meant he “didn’t trust she was already his.” Now, three years after fleeing Paris with nothing but a suitcase full of regrets, Lucia has built a life...

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—...

Some silences feel like safety. Some bury you alive.In a village wrapped around the broken stones of an ancient ringfort, one woman has spent her whole life swallowing her story — the bruises hidden by jumpers, the truths folded into hush after hush. It’s the kind of quiet that passes down through bloodlines like bad luck. But hushes don’t last...

No one saves the witch but herself.

On the edge of the Irish bog, where the mist never lifts and the wind carries old secrets, Brigid O’Shea lives beneath the shadow of a curse that has haunted her bloodline for centuries. She is the last of the O’Shea witches—a healer, a mother, and the keeper of an ancient ledger that records every bargain and...

She came home to bury a father… and uncovered the story that could ruin them all.Clíodhna Fallon thought she’d left Inishvale behind—its small-town whispers, the man who broke her heart on-air, and the legacy of a newspaper clinging to life. But when her father dies, she inherits not just the Gazette… but a locked metal box of buried secrets.
To...

Daughter of the Morrígan

By Laura Carpenter

A girl born of prophecy. A bloodline bound to the Morrígan. A storm rising in the hills of ancient Ireland.

Seventeen-year-old Neasa Byrne has always heard whispers—about the cursed bloodline she carries, about her missing mother, about the crows that linger where they shouldn’t. Raised in a...

Bloodbound By Laura Carpenter “Some fates are carved in fire. Some are bound in blood.” Eirn never asked for power. She only asked to be left alone. But when the gods remember her name — and the blood she carries — her world fractures. Torn from the quiet life she’s built, Eirn is thrust into a Trial older than myth itself, bound by forces she...

HER NAME WAS NEVER SPOKEN
A Keane Case File
By Laura Carpenter

“Some monsters don’t hide in the dark. Some live behind your smile.”

FBI profiler Cerys Keane doesn’t chase headlines.
She chases ghosts.

For ten years, Cerys has lived in the aftermath of an unspeakable trauma—her twin sister’s murder, her mother’s silence, and a media storm that branded...

In a land divided by blood, borders, and silence—how far would you go to protect love?
Belfast, 1969.
Clara Devane is a young Catholic paediatric nurse on the frontlines of a city being torn apart. On a day etched into history as Bloody Friday, Clara shields her infant son beneath a triage cot while tending to victims of a bombing. Her act of...

interfaith family saga, Irish Canadian novel, Fraser Valley fiction, farmhouse comedy book, big family humorous drama, multigenerational secrets novel, bread baking fiction, found family romcom, Derry Girls book vibe, Shameless style novel, goat farm humor, multicultural dinner story, chaotic family dinners novel, religious diversity fiction,...

Almost Always
A Hollywood Legacy Novel – Book One
by Laura Carpenter

She played their daughter in the movie. No one knew she already was.

Seven-year-old Lucy never asked to be part of a scandal. All she wanted was to act. To tell stories. To be seen.

When she lands the breakout role of the decade—playing the daughter of two legendary actors in a...

They made her a bride. She made them remember.On the morning of her wedding, Eileen Quinn vanishes without a trace. The gown still hangs. The veil is left behind. The estate she was meant to marry into—the cold, prestigious Ashbourne house—erupts with panic and suspicion. But this is not a runaway bride story. This is a reckoning.Raised on the...

Ballad of the Broken
By Laura Carpenter

Some love stories are inked in blood, sealed with silence, and buried beneath the weight of what was never said.

When Maeve Keegan left behind the Irish coast she once called home, she thought she’d buried the heartbreak, the headlines, and the boy who shattered her. But the past has a cruel way of rising —...

When the prison walls fall, the real battle begins…

Once a decorated agent. Now a pawn in the Mafia’s game.
In a crumbling city ruled by crime lords and corruption, Kai Mercer has survived the underground fight pits for four years — forced to brawl for the entertainment of the same Mafia empire that destroyed his life. He’s lost count of how many...

HERON HOUSE
A Novel by Laura Carpenter

They say you can never go home again. But what if home won’t let you go?

When matriarch Brenda McEvoy passes away, the five McEvoy siblings — Aoife, Colm, Maeve, Eimear, and Darragh — are summoned back to Heron House, the weathered Dublin family home that’s been both a sanctuary and a battleground for...

Blood & Honey

Our love broke the curse. Our child is the weapon. The world should have let us die.

In the hidden corridors between Dublin’s brutal underworld and the haunted alleyways of Naples, an ancient blood feud is about to be rewritten in flesh, fire, and betrayal.

Keira Lynch — the bastard queenpin of the O’Connell crime dynasty — was...

FINAL FALL
A Psychological Thriller from : Laura Carpenter

Sometimes the past doesn’t stay buried.Sometimes it hunts.

Rain claws at the windows. The streets of Belfast glisten with secrets. And someone is killing women in a way that feels hauntingly familiar.

When forensic pathologist Elisha Reade is called home after the death of a woman found...

The Hush That Endures — Final Cinematic BlurbThe hush isn’t just silence. It’s survival. It’s song. It’s the breath you hold between goodbye and what comes next.The Hush That Endures is a story stitched together with bramble blood, peat smoke, and the soft heartbeat of seven children standing guard against a god that refuses to stay dead. This...

Children of the Crows

Book One of the Crowmarked Saga
By Laura Carpenter
Tagline: A girl who died. A version that shouldn’t exist. A story that refuses to let her go.

Syra Ward remembers dying.

She remembers the crows, their impossible wings glitching through a broken sky. She remembers the fire under her skin, the scream that split her chest, and...

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...

The void is not absence but the echo of all we have lost.”Across the scarred edges of a broken galaxy, four children carry marks that should have destroyed them. Instead, the void whispered their names—and gave them back to each other.
Sol, the girl who writes echoes into a journal no one else can read.
Niko, a fallen prince whose family crest is...

We Were Wild, We Were Left is a haunting Irish coastal suspense about family.Twenty years ago, the Fallon children left their small Irish town in the wake of tragedy. Their mother, Nora, was found dead at the cliff path, her fall ruled an accident. Her daughter Maeve never believed it. Her son Cormac refused to question it. Both ran from the...

Bury the Fruit is a sweeping Gothic romantic thriller of love, betrayal, and inheritance, set in the storm-lashed orchards of Wicklow. With echoes of Kate Morton and Sarah Perry, it blends family saga, atmospheric suspense, and a love story shadowed by legacy.

In the wild hills above the Irish Sea, an orchard waits. It remembers every lie, every...

The Sharp Edge of Mercy
by Laura Carpenter

When every cut can save—or destroy—a life, mercy becomes the sharpest blade of all.

Dr. Wren Lorne once belonged to St. Iver’s Memorial Hospital. She was the prodigy surgeon, the rising star, the woman whose hands could pull a child back from the brink with nothing but courage and a scalpel. Until the...

Some secrets break us. Others bind us forever.

The Weight of Always is a haunting, emotionally charged Irish romantic suspense about the lies we live with, the family we fight for, and the love that refuses to die. When Nolan—the bruiser who once owned Maeve’s heart—walks back into her small coastal town, the past doesn’t just knock. It kicks...

When silence is policy, truth becomes deadly.In the fluorescent corridors of St Brigid’s Hospital, every second can save a life or erase the evidence of one lost. The Silence Protocol is a high-stakes medical thriller where institutional secrecy collides with the courage of those who refuse to look away. Fans of Robin Cook, Michael Crichton, and...

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...

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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...

She fasted for faith. She bled for family. But sainthood demands more than silence.

In a forgotten orchard parish where relics hum behind locked glass and women are taught to starve their longing into virtue, one woman is vanishing.

Her body is shrinking. Her voice is quiet. Her hunger is holy.

Married young to a man who believes devotion is...

Some girls survive the fire. Others become it.



When the last funeral ends and the ash settles across the moorlands, one girl walks barefoot into the ruin of her mother’s world and doesn’t look back. Raised in silence. Forged in shame. She is the daughter of a vanished name — and the heir to a curse she never asked to carry.



In the shadow of a...

They called her a ghost. A rebel. A girl made of fire and ruin.

Belfast, 1987. In a city carved by war, Mercy O’Callaghan smuggles secrets beneath her skin and a pistol in her coat. Raised on grief and grit, she once loved a girl who vanished into the mist — and left behind a trail of blood. Now Mercy walks the line between martyr and monster,...

HOLLOW BOUNDA novel by Laura CarpenterLiterary Fiction Women’s Fiction Intergenerational Drama Irish-Canadian IdentityA red ribbon. A boarded-up house. A silence that was never just silence.When Maeve Brennan returns to her family homestead in the rural borderlands between memory and myth, she doesn’t expect to find a ribbon tied to the...

HER NAME WAS FIRE
By Laura Carpenter
www.lauracarpenterbooks.com
@lauracarpenterbooks

She forgot her name. But the fire remembered.

In a world rebuilt from ruin, memory is no longer something we carry — it’s something that can be bought, erased, edited. Cities rise from ash, powered by clean algorithms and cleaner lies. The past is a forbidden...

Some loves never die. Some secrets never stay buried.

They were childhood soulmates, torn apart by violence, silence, and choices no one should have to make.

Now he’s back — older, famous, and a stranger with the same haunted blue eyes as the boy she lost… and the son she’s raising alone.

Set in Belfast, where the past is never truly buried and...

Sexual beliefs, behaviors and identities are interwoven throughout our lives, from childhood to old age. An edited collection of original empirical contributions united through its use of a distinctive, cutting-edge theoretical framework, Sex for Life critically examines sexuality across the entire lifespan. Rooted in diverse disciplines and...