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 the bells ring before dawn, the law wakes.
Archivist Seraphine Mire has spent her life guarding the kingdom’s most dangerous secrets inside the Blood Archive. When the king is found murdered in a ritual meant to trigger ancient succession law, those secrets suddenly become weapons.
The realm’s most powerful houses descend on the cathedral to...

In a coastal Irish town where summer makes everything feel possible, Nora is pulled back toward the people, memories, and unfinished truths she thought she had outgrown.
What begins as a return becomes something far messier: a house full of history, a family shaped by grief, a mother’s hidden pages, and the quiet shock of realising the past has...

She came to build winners, not lose her head over one impossible man.

But under stadium lights and Galway rain, ambition, loyalty, and attraction start colliding fast. In a club built on structure, ritual, and ordinary care, one woman is about to discover that love can be as dangerous—and as thrilling—as the final minutes of a season-defining...

Borrowed Honeymoon
Two strangers.
One fake honeymoon.
A love neither of them planned

She was supposed to be on her honeymoon.Just… not alone.
When Clare’s wedding collapses days before the ceremony, she’s left with two non-refundable tickets to Venice and a heart she’s not sure how to carry anymore.
The last thing she expects is an offer from Eamon —...

Eliza never planned to return.
Not to the city that knew her name. Not to the life she escaped. And definitely not to James—whose silence after their breakup left scars that never healed.
But when a major film production pulls Eliza into the spotlight again, the past comes looking for payment. James is older now, sharper, guarded—and still the one...

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...