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Book Club Fiction
Fiadh Callister
The first thing Dr. Nessa Byrne noticed about a bad night was never the screaming. People imagined the screaming. They imagined sirens coming in hot, blood on white floors, doctors running with heroic urgency and someone shouting for a crash trolley while the music swelled. That was television. In Mercy South Hospital, on the north side of Cork city in the third week of January, bad nights usually announced themselves with quieter things.
Sports Romance
Nessa Calder
Physiotherapist and single mother Aoife Byrne has built a careful life around work, community and her fierce nine-year-old daughter. When football star Eoin Daly returns home for a testimonial season, the boy she once loved walks back into the leisure centre carrying an injured knee, a changed life and the history neither of them has quite buried. As school visits, family loyalties and the pressure of public attention pull them closer, Aoife and Eoin must decide whether a second chance can be built from something quieter than grand gestures: trust, ordinary reliability, and the courage to stay after the match is over.
Book Club Fiction
Fiadh Callister
Borrowed Vows · Book 1
Promise Law Lantern Rain came in sideways, the kind that found the gap between collar and skin and wrote its name there. Aisling stood beneath the Civic Offices overhang, watching the Liffey move like a dark thought. The river threw up the city in little broken pieces—lamp filigree, bus lights, the pale oval of a gull—and she let it. Her hands were stuffed into her coat pockets, fingers worrying the corner of an index card until it went soft at the edges.
Medical Romance
Cormac Kearney
Night Ward · Book 1
At Galway University Hospital, the distance between keeping someone alive and letting someone close can be measured in seconds. Breaking Sterile launches Night Ward with two medical professionals carrying impossible pressure, private wounds and a trust neither of them can afford to fake. In a place where life hangs by a thread, intimacy is not an escape from the work — it is another risk with consequences.
Psychological Horror
Lachlan Ashen
Independent investigator Mara Vale is publicly discredited at a national integrity hearing when impossible ash, a sealed childhood institution called Ash House, and the voice of her missing brother force her back toward the family secrets and official records she has spent her career exposing.
Romantic Suspense / Journalist-Protector Romance
Skye MacLeod
Sentinel Agency
A journalist, a protector and a story dangerous enough to put both under pressure. Crossfire Vows is romantic suspense where trust has to hold while the truth keeps moving.
Urban Fantasy
Aislin Morrigan
The first rule at Daywalker Inc was not written on the glass wall in the lobby, or printed in the employee handbook with its expensive paper and its suspiciously cheerful diagrams about workplace wellness. It was not mentioned in the induction video, which featured smiling interns pretending not to fear the blood-fridge, or in the legal disclaimer that ran for eleven minutes before anyone was allowed near a needle.
Medical-Legal Thriller
E. L. Doherty
The sea had a way of pretending it was innocent. From the lane above the cliffs it looked almost gentle — slate-grey, flecked with pale foam, breathing in and out like something asleep. The wind did the loud work, flinging rain sideways, rattling the gorse, making a song of the wire fences. Down below, the tide kept its own counsel. Nora Fallon walked that path with her coat pulled tight and her hair half loose, as if she’d forgotten she was meant to be careful.
Contemporary Women's Fiction
Laura Carpenter
The first notice arrived folded into the mouth of a brown envelope and stamped twice, as if the county itself had lost patience and struck the paper harder the second time. Nóra Harte found it on the kitchen table at six fourteen in the morning, beneath the chipped blue mug her mother had used until the day she died, beside a school permission slip for Finn’s hurling blitz and three coins saved for the hospital vending machine.
Protector Romance
Skye MacLeod
The letter arrived in a dead man’s waterproof coat. Not in the post, not with a neat stamp and a civilised knock, but folded into the oilskin pocket of a fisherman who had been dragged from the Minch with his hands still clenched as if he had tried to hold the sea shut. Isla Kerr saw the coat before she saw the body, and that was what stayed with her: the yellow sleeve lifting in the wind like a warning flag, the black buttons shining wet, the torn cuff caught on the rusted hook beside the pier office door.
Medical-Legal Thriller
E. L. Doherty
The gavel cracked once—sharp, echoing against the wood-paneled walls—and every muscle in Nina Daley’s body went rigid. She told herself it was muscle memory. Pavlov’s dog with a baritone hammer. The sound that had ended her life once before. Her fingers brushed the worn leather of the briefcase at her side, a second-hand buy from a consignment shop near Dupont Circle, the place that catered to the daughters of ambassadors who didn’t care where the money came from.
Dark Romance
Ciara Voss
Rules of Power · Book 1
Independent counsel Priya Sen is hired to investigate Kade International after a leaked dossier alleges surveillance, coercion and abuse of private data. Adrian Kade expects scrutiny; he does not expect the one woman determined to keep him outside the investigation—or the power exchange neither of them can treat as harmless. A dark contemporary romance about consent, control, privacy and what happens when desire collides with accountability.