Kept by the Irish Mob
(2026)(The first book in the Maguire Irish Family series)
A novel by Cora J Riley
She arrived in a hood with her wrists bound. His enemy's daughter. Delivered as a message.
Ronan Maguire didn't ask for Orla Walsh. He didn't ask for a woman who smiled at his best man thirty seconds after the hood came off, who dismantled her zip ties before she'd even arrived, who sat across his desk on the first morning and told him she'd already worked out his negotiating position — and wasn't particularly impressed by it.
He told himself she was useful. Intelligence on her father's operation, freely given, strategically priceless. He told himself that was all it was.
He was wrong from approximately the second morning.
Orla Walsh spent ten years building a life that had nothing to do with the world she was born into. She knows exactly what Ronan Maguire is. She's seen the room. She knows what it's used for. She can hold both things at once — the man who left a window open so the piano music could come out, and the man who built a room with a drain in the floor — and she's not pretending either of them isn't real.
She's just not going to fall for him.
She fails at that. Comprehensively.
When her father makes one last move and uses her to make it, Ronan has to decide what she's worth to him — and what he's willing to burn down to protect it.
It turns out the answer is: everything.
Content warning: dark themes, captivity, descriptions of torture, sexual threat, explicit sexual content. This is a dark romance — the hero is not a good man. He's something more complicated than that.
Ronan Maguire didn't ask for Orla Walsh. He didn't ask for a woman who smiled at his best man thirty seconds after the hood came off, who dismantled her zip ties before she'd even arrived, who sat across his desk on the first morning and told him she'd already worked out his negotiating position — and wasn't particularly impressed by it.
He told himself she was useful. Intelligence on her father's operation, freely given, strategically priceless. He told himself that was all it was.
He was wrong from approximately the second morning.
Orla Walsh spent ten years building a life that had nothing to do with the world she was born into. She knows exactly what Ronan Maguire is. She's seen the room. She knows what it's used for. She can hold both things at once — the man who left a window open so the piano music could come out, and the man who built a room with a drain in the floor — and she's not pretending either of them isn't real.
She's just not going to fall for him.
She fails at that. Comprehensively.
When her father makes one last move and uses her to make it, Ronan has to decide what she's worth to him — and what he's willing to burn down to protect it.
It turns out the answer is: everything.
Content warning: dark themes, captivity, descriptions of torture, sexual threat, explicit sexual content. This is a dark romance — the hero is not a good man. He's something more complicated than that.
Used availability for Cora J Riley's Kept by the Irish Mob