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Small-Town Romance

All the Little Safeties

Laura Carpenter

Ana Byrne learned the weight of a secret at half past six on a Tuesday morning, standing barefoot on the cold tile of her bathroom with the sea still black beyond the window and a white plastic stick balanced on the rim of the sink like a verdict too small for the crime. The house was silent around her. Not peaceful. Silence, Ana had decided years ago, was only peace when someone had chosen it kindly.

Contemporary Romance / Market Community Romance

Bloom and Brine

Laura Carpenter

The house woke in layers: pipes first, then the low throat-clearing of the kettle, then the soft lamp in the hall throwing lemon-coloured light across the runner Ava kept bunching with her socks. Niamh moved through it all before dawn with the alert, practised quiet of a woman who could not afford a sloppy morning. She liked those first minutes because nobody wanted anything yet.

Small-Town Romance

Borrowed Cottage Hearts

Sorcha Lennox

Ronan O’Doherty had never liked the way the cottage fell quiet at night. It wasn’t real quiet, not with the wind coming in off the Atlantic and rattling the old storm windows, and the sea pushing itself up against the harbour wall like it might finally work out how to climb. The pipes clanked, the turf in the grate sighed and settled, and somewhere down the hall his father snored like a tractor that ought to be retired.

Small-Town Romance

Bowl and Broth

Laura Carpenter

Rain stitched the glass over the market into a soft quilt, each pane a patch catching the morning. Up in the loft nook, Aoife Hanratty set her fingertips to the centred clay and listened the way other people watch. A steady wheel, a steady breath. She opened the lump with her thumbs and drew the wall up, guarding it with her palms until a bowl stood there—simple, willing, almost itself.

Sports Romance / Community Women’s Fiction

Claddaghmore Gaels

Laura Carpenter

Claddaghmore Gaels sequence

Sport, community and the loyalties built around both sit at the heart of Claddaghmore Gaels. It is a romance about belonging to a team, a town and, eventually, to someone.

Sports Romance / Community Wedding Romance

County and Wedding

Nessa Calder

Claddaghmore Gaels sequence

A wedding brings the Claddaghmore community together with all the old loyalties, sporting rivalries and romantic complications that follow. County and Wedding is warm, lively and rooted in people who know one another too well.

Small-Town Romance

Girls of Copper Street

Sorcha Lennox

Ferry Ticket The ferry terminal at two in the morning looked less like a place for travel than a place where people came to be judged by fluorescent lights. Grace Mallon stood beneath one of them with her hood stuck to the back of her neck, her suitcase listing against her shin, and a paper cup of tea cooling in her hand because she had forgotten she was holding it.

Romantic Comedy / Community Romance

The Doctor Is on Air

Bronagh Fairburn

Fionn Meadowes Romantic Comedies

Romantic Comedy / Second-Chance Romance

The Plus-One Problem

Bronagh Fairburn

Two years after Aunt Deirdre’s death, Maeve Harrington receives one final instruction: bring a plus-one to her parents’ anniversary dinner, but not a safe lie. Then Rory Gallagher—the chaotic, camera-carrying man tied to the worst night of Maeve’s life—turns up on her doorstep. Three weeks, one empty chair and a town full of opinions leave Maeve facing the second chance she never planned to admit she wanted.

Holiday Romance

Wrong Chat Right Man

Aoife Winters

Molly Hayes knew the exact sound a lie made when it arrived in a town that still pretended gossip was community care. It came in bright little pings. It came dressed as concern. It came while she was flipping Sunday pancakes one-handed, holding her phone between chin and shoulder, and telling seven other mothers that yes, of course she had remembered the raffle tickets, the gluten-free buns, and the permission slips for the children who were allergic to everything except chaos.