☘️ The Ballycove Vow (Love in Ballycove, Prequel) ☘️

One summer. One chance for love on Ireland’s Wild Atlantic Way!

Burned-out Dublin coder Eimear Hanly inherits her grandfather’s crumbling sheep farm in Ballycove—but only if she’s married before August. Stoic farmer Aodhán O’Malley can’t secure custody of his orphaned niece without a stable “two-parent” home. A tidy, paper-only answer seems obvious: a marriage of convenience, no strings, no feelings.

Yet under the golden skies of Ireland’s Wild Atlantic Way, renovating the old cottage, sharing seaside picnics, and swapping midnight stories ignite a slow-burn spark neither of them expected. Keeping their arrangement strictly business proves harder than fencing sheep. Eimear plans to flip the farm and sprint back to tech life, but Ballycove’s rolling fields—and Aodhán’s steadfast kindness—start claiming space in her code-cluttered heart.

When a sharp-eyed social worker digs into their whirlwind wedding, every shared glance and almost-kiss risks exposing the ruse. Aodhán can’t lose his niece; Eimear won’t survive another abandonment. To stay together, they must risk the one clause their contract never mentioned: real love.

Will a forged promise shatter three fragile hearts—or blossom into Ballycove’s sweetest midsummer miracle?

☘️ A Second Bloom in October (Love in Ballycove, Book 4) ☘️

First love returns, autumn leaves, and a widowed bookseller’s heart blooms again!

Fifty-five-year-old bookseller Fiona Doyle treasures quiet October mornings in Ballycove’s Curlew Bookshop, shelves scented with peat smoke and stories. When Seán McGrath—her teenage sweetheart turned celebrated historian—strides in needing space to archive village letters, Fiona’s orderly empty-nest life tilts. The boy who once promised forever left for academia thirty-eight years ago; now his rueful smile stirs long-dormant hope beneath falling gold leaves. But memories of Fiona’s late husband, and Seán’s burden of guilt, threaten to keep the past tightly closed.

Cataloguing dusty diaries side by side, they rediscover stolen dances, whispered poems, a future they almost claimed. Yet Fiona’s loyalty to her late husband—and the bookstore she built in his name—binds her heart. Seán longs to atone for decades of silence, but every tender moment risks reopening old wounds. When an Atlantic storm collapses Fiona’s cottage roof and Seán braves the gale to rescue her treasured first editions, both must decide whether second chances are meant for stories…or for the storytellers themselves.

October’s last rose is blooming—will they let it fade, or dare to love twice in one lifetime?