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Love in Ballycove
A complete 6-book series with a free prequel novel!
– Wild Atlantic charm, heart-warming small-town romance –
Escape to Ballycove, a windswept jewel on Ireland’s Wild Atlantic Way, where cosy pubs, colourful cottages and found-family friendships set the stage for six clean & wholesome small-town romances.
Author Maeve McBride pairs beloved tropes (second chance, grumpy-sunshine, fake fiancé, friends-to-lovers, single dad, and a holiday wedding) with slow-burn chemistry, zero-heat sweetness and guaranteed happily-ever-afters. If you crave Irish charm, Hallmark-style feels, rugged cliffs, rolling green hills and “one-more-chapter” page-turns, dive into Love in Ballycove.
Perfect for fans of sweet contemporary romance, feel-good beach reads, found-family sagas, Kindle Unlimited binges and anyone searching for their next uplifting, heart-warming small-town Irish love story.
FREE Prequel!
FREE 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.
One fake ring, one broken heart—and a second chance at love.
Big-city marketing star Tara Quinn returns to windswept Ballycove only to inherit a dilapidated cliff-top cottage—and the memories of the teenage sweetheart she left behind. Local carpenter Cillian Byrne offers a daring solution: announce a pretend engagement so nosy villagers, greedy developers, and Tara’s guilt all stay off her back while they restore the house.
It’s strictly business, zero feelings, no risk… until shared sunsets, salt-brushed laughter, and one stolen almost-kiss start turning the fakest romance in Ireland achingly real. As Cillian and Tara hammer at sagging roofs and dodge relentless gossip, Ballycove’s richest developer circles, eager to swap Granny’s roses for luxury lodges. Selling would solve Tara’s money worries and wipe out Cillian’s livelihood.
One daring design, one cautious surfer, and a love painted across Ballycove’s summer skies.
For muralist Niamh O’Shea, Ballycove’s first Arts & Waves Festival is her dream canvas... if the town will let her splash a thirty-foot sea-dragon across its iconic cliffs. Former pro surfer Rory Donnelly, now owner of the Board & Bike shop, sees disaster in neon paint and tourist selfies. Thrown together as festival co-chairs, the pair agree on exactly one thing: they can’t stand each other. But late-night planning sessions, salt-sweet breezes, and shared secrets blur the bright line between clashing and chemistry.
When a slick outside investor dangles Rory a lucrative sponsorship—only if Niamh’s daring mural is replaced by bland corporate branding—Ballycove’s summer showcase teeters on sell-out. Rory must choose between safe profit and the village’s creative soul; Niamh’s hard-won reputation hangs on finishing her bold design.
One harvest fair, one looming goodbye and a friendship on the edge of forever.
Autumn paints Ballycove gold just as primary-school teacher Aoife Flynn throws herself into planning the village harvest fair. Her best friend since nappies, Finn Murphy—paramedic and dare-devil cliff-rescue volunteer—steps in to help, hiding the letter in his pocket: a dream job interview in Galway that could take him sixty miles, and a lifetime, away.
Between bonfire rehearsals, Gaelic songs, and cider-sweet sunsets, long-buried feelings spark. But risking the perfect friendship that’s carried them since childhood may cost them both more than distance ever could.
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.
A single dad, a wandering librarian and Christmas lights bright enough to heal lonely hearts!
Lonely lighthouse keeper Declan Hayes keeps Ballycove’s beam cutting through November gales, yet grief still clouds his days. Enter Bríd Callahan, the new librarian whose mobile book van and radiant hope make even the wild cliffs feel like home. Her story-times enchant Declan's six-year-old Molly and coax rare smiles from Declan.
Then a fierce storm maroons Bríd overnight in the lighthouse, where candlelit cocoa and whispered dreams kindle the first glow of a Christmas miracle—for a father, a daughter, and a wanderer alike.
A grumpy pub owner and a sunshine principal, one Christmas wedding neither planned!
Pub owner Seamus Gallagher prefers peace, pints, and zero tinsel. Primary-school principal Sorcha Ní Riain runs on lists, glitter glue, and Christmas cheer. When Father Colm wins a radio contest that funds exactly one Christmas Eve wedding and Ballycove votes the longtime sparring partners to tie the knot, the pair strike a strictly practical bargain: save Seamus’s leaking pub roof, secure Sorcha’s new school wing, then part ways. But mistletoe, snowstorms, and a meddling village have merrier plans for their reluctant hearts.
From rehearsal disasters to supply shortages, Seamus and Sorcha tackle every crisis with trademark banter—until a roaring Atlantic storm tears the pub roof apart and plunges Ballycove into darkness a week before the ceremony.
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