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—...

In a rainy Irish coastal town, the market runs on three things: gossip, second chances, and whoever remembered to put the kettle on.
She’s not here for grand gestures. She’s here for stability—routine, work that feels honest, and a life that doesn’t fall apart the second someone raises their voice. After a stretch of bad luck and worse choices,...

In Derry, privacy is a kind of oath.
Maeve has built a life on rules—quiet ones, the kind that keep you standing when your past comes knocking. The kettle goes on. The door stays shut. The line is clear.
Then Rowan comes back.
He’s the man she loved, the man she lost, and the one person who can still pull truth out of her with a single look. Old...

A Cork morning is its own kind of weather—rain on the zebra crossing, small hands gripping backpacks, and a town that runs on routine, humour, and the quiet bravery of getting everyone safely to the other side.
Mairéad Keegan is the art teacher who arrives early with spare socks, warm cocoa, and a plan for every small crisis. Declan Ward is the...

A broken-down bookmobile, a single mum who keeps time for a county, and the mechanic who quietly learns her heart’s routes.

Niamh Murphy runs her life by routes and timetables.
By day she drives the county bookmobile, stamping dates and handing out stories from parish halls and school yards. By night she’s raising two kids who know that love looks...

Siofra Lane has three rules for survival:
Clean hands. True records. No heroics.
As a contract archivist and single mum, she moves from one crumbling collection to the next, stabilising the past just long enough for someone else to cut the ribbon and take the photographs. This time she’s in charge of a historic Irish house-museum where the...

When the wave took everything, she swore she would never come back.
Years after the accident that shattered her coastal Irish town, Orla Quinn has built a careful, landlocked life in Dublin—no sea, no storms, no reminders of the night the ocean decided who it would keep. But when a family emergency drags her home to the windswept village she once...

When the roof starts leaking in the town’s shabby-but-beloved community hall, nobody expects the Thursday choir to become the glue holding everyone together. Rowan, a widowed father doing his best not to over-rescue the world, just wants a place where his daughter can breathe steady. Eliza, the hall manager with a pencil behind her ear and a...

Some love stories don’t begin with a spark.

They begin with a history.

They know each other’s tells—the pause before a lie, the hand that hovers before it reaches, the way I’m fine can mean please don’t leave. They’ve already loved once. They’ve already broken. And they’ve sworn they won’t make the same mistakes again.

When two people who once...

Some houses are inherited.
Others inherit you.
When a long-held family home on the edge of a small Irish town is left to a fractured group of relatives and near-strangers, the will is clear—and uncompromising. To keep the house, they must all live in it together for one year. If they fail, the house will be sold.
No one expects it to work.
Old...

Some love stories aren’t rebuilt from memory.
They’re rebuilt from choice.
When a house fire on a quiet Belfast street brings firefighter Peter O’Callaghan face-to-face with the woman he once loved, he doesn’t recognise her. Or the children watching him from the pavement. Or the life he apparently walked away from.
Evie remembers everything.
They...