An intimate analysis of the first timeNervous, inexperienced, confused. For most, losing your virginity is one of life's most significant moments, always to be remembered. Of course, experiences vary, but Laura Carpenter asks: Is there an ideal way to lose it? What would constitute a "positive" experience? What often compels the big step? And, further, what does "going all the way" really mean for young gays and lesbians?In this first comprehensive study of v...

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 motherhood, found family, and the fight to reclaim what was lost. If you love deeply rooted romance, Irish drama, and protective boys who never...

In a city where every breath can be counted, Aoife Quinn survives by discipline: angles, exits, wind direction, and the quiet rules that keep people alive. Ronan is the calm voice in her ear—the one who steadies her hands, keeps her grounded, and never asks for more than the work requires.Then someone begins turning voices into weapons.As an unseen antagonist splices audio, twists consent into spectacle, and feeds public scrutiny into pressure points, Aoife and Ronan are fo...

In a city that never stops listening, Maeve Dornan has learned how to keep her world quiet.A paediatrician with a gift for steady hands and hard boundaries, Maeve doesn't believe in public miracles—only private ones: a child's breathing easing, a frightened mother exhaling, a small life made safer by choosing the right words at the right moment. But when a high-profile campaign collides with the realities she protects every day, Maeve faces a decision that will cost her something r...

Sive Ní Chathasaigh runs her training ground like a promise: clear rules, hard work, and nothing published that puts her girls at risk. When a reporter arrives with a notebook and manners—too early, too steady, too willing to listen—she doesn't soften. She sets boundaries.Niall Daly has made a career out of getting the story right without stealing people's lives. He's learned what headlines can do to a town—and what they can do to a girl with talent and no protection. Sive's rules ...

Some people fall in love at first sight.Aoife Gallagher falls into it while arguing about a four-hundred-pound designer golf-club headcover.Working weddings at one of Ireland's most exclusive golf clubs wasn't part of Aoife's dream life. Neither was becoming the accidental headline beside the country's most famous golfer.Declan Quinn has spent years living under cameras, sponsors, impossible expectations, and the crushing weight of being everyone's golden boy. After...

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 she's stepping into its centre.A flare in the rain.A recording t...

Maeve O'Rourke doesn't do scandal—until she's caught kissing a man at the back of the church wall.By morning, the whole parish knows. By lunch, they've decided what it means.Maeve's got a daughter to protect, a reputation she's tired of carrying, and a life she built after everything fell apart. The last thing she needs is Sean Dolan back in her orbit—steady, stubborn, and far too familiar.But one kiss becomes a rumour, and the rumour becomes a reckoning. Because in...

Midnight is supposed to be quiet—the hour when the world slows and secrets feel safe.Until the phone rings.A voice cuts through the static. A stranger who knows her name. Her past. Her fears. Details no outsider should ever know.What starts as one unsettling call becomes a pattern—each message more intimate, more dangerous, more impossible to ignore. Someone is watching. Someone is listening. Someone is ready to destroy everything she's built.Because the mid...

After a workplace accident erases years of her memory, a young nurse wakes to discover she has a baby—and no recollection of becoming a mother.In Reykjavík's quiet winter light, she begins rebuilding her life with the help of a gentle photojournalist who has loved her through every version of herself.Through video diaries, small rituals, and fragile trust, she learns that memory is not the only foundation for love.Sometimes, choosing the present is braver than recla...

A rising sports captain, a woman who refuses to be collateral damage, and a love story split by ambition and fear. The Captains of Her Heart is a powerful Irish second-chance romance about agency, motherhood, and choosing yourself without losing love.

Aoife Byrne built her life on systems: manifests, routes, colour-coded crates, locks that click shut with certainty. In the quiet hours of a Dundalk depot, order is safety—and safety is something she's fought for, earned, and refused to apologise for.Then a note appears inside her paperwork.Not a threat. Not a demand. Just a private detail no stranger should know.At first she tells herself it's a joke, a coincidence, a tired mind seeing patterns where none exist. Bu...