Broken by the Irish Mob
(2026)(The fourth book in the Maguire Irish Family series)
A Story by Cora J Riley
The wrong laneway. The right time. Both things true.
Dara has the easiest grin in Ronan Maguire's operation. It's been working for eight years — nobody looks behind it, nobody asks what it's covering, and that's exactly the point. He's useful, reliable, present. He makes everyone around him feel good and he doesn't let anyone close enough to see what it costs him.
Aoife Brennan walks into the wrong laneway on a Tuesday evening and becomes his associate by accident, his confidante by Thursday, and his problem — in the best possible sense — by the time the week is out. She's a secondary school teacher. She spots the grin in under ten minutes because she uses the same tricks and you can always recognise your own.
The debt Dara's been carrying for twelve years ''' loyalty owed to the wrong man, a number that keeps growing, a secret he's kept from Ronan because he didn't want to bring his past into the house — is about to run out of patience. Feely is in Wicklow. Feely knows about Aoife. And the thing Dara's been hiding is now the one thing that can be used against him.
He tells Ronan. Ronan moves. And in the space that opens up when the weight finally lifts, Dara finds out what was there the whole time — what the grin was always covering, what he's been calling too much to want, what Aoife decided on in a dark laneway and has been holding to ever since.
Broken by the Irish Mob is a dark romance featuring a man who made a grin into a life strategy and the woman who saw through it in a Tuesday laneway, found family who had been waiting for him to put the weight down, surfing practised badly in the October rain, and the particular spring that comes after a very long winter.
Standalone HEA. Book Four and series closer for the Kept by the Irish Mob series. Can be read independently — richer as the conclusion to all four books.
Genre: Romance
Dara has the easiest grin in Ronan Maguire's operation. It's been working for eight years — nobody looks behind it, nobody asks what it's covering, and that's exactly the point. He's useful, reliable, present. He makes everyone around him feel good and he doesn't let anyone close enough to see what it costs him.
Aoife Brennan walks into the wrong laneway on a Tuesday evening and becomes his associate by accident, his confidante by Thursday, and his problem — in the best possible sense — by the time the week is out. She's a secondary school teacher. She spots the grin in under ten minutes because she uses the same tricks and you can always recognise your own.
The debt Dara's been carrying for twelve years ''' loyalty owed to the wrong man, a number that keeps growing, a secret he's kept from Ronan because he didn't want to bring his past into the house — is about to run out of patience. Feely is in Wicklow. Feely knows about Aoife. And the thing Dara's been hiding is now the one thing that can be used against him.
He tells Ronan. Ronan moves. And in the space that opens up when the weight finally lifts, Dara finds out what was there the whole time — what the grin was always covering, what he's been calling too much to want, what Aoife decided on in a dark laneway and has been holding to ever since.
Broken by the Irish Mob is a dark romance featuring a man who made a grin into a life strategy and the woman who saw through it in a Tuesday laneway, found family who had been waiting for him to put the weight down, surfing practised badly in the October rain, and the particular spring that comes after a very long winter.
Standalone HEA. Book Four and series closer for the Kept by the Irish Mob series. Can be read independently — richer as the conclusion to all four books.
Genre: Romance
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