Ruined by the Irish Mob
(2026)(The third book in the Maguire Irish Family series)
A Story by Cora J Riley
He built something of his own. She came to write about it. Neither of them planned for the rest.
Con Fennelly has a Bib Gourmand, a Wicklow restaurant he built from nothing, and one rule: the past stays where it is. He cooked in Ronan Maguire's household from sixteen to twenty and left when a door opened and didn't look back. He just cooks. He's very good at it.
Nell Marsh arrives from London with a brief — warm profile, eight hundred words, in and out — and a predisposition to be unimpressed by rural Irish food writing. She is not unimpressed. She is furious about not being unimpressed. She writes significant problem in her notebook after the first course and stays for five weeks.
Con couldn't care less what the critic thinks. He has a kitchen to run, a tasting menu to execute, and no interest in a woman who came here to write something and leave. Except she keeps coming back. And he keeps letting her in. And somewhere between the spoon and the kitchen garden and the November celeriac, it stops being manageable.
When the past he buried resurfaces and follows her into the life she's building in his orbit, Con has to face the history he's never told anyone — and she has to decide how much she's willing to risk for a story that's become something more than a story.
Ruined by the Irish Mob is a dark romance featuring a chef who built something entirely his own and a critic who can't stop pulling at the threads, found family, a kitchen garden with garlic planted fifteen centimetres apart, and the particular catastrophe of falling for someone who was supposed to be temporary.
Standalone HEA. Book Three of four. Can be read independently — richer with the series behind it.
Genre: Romance
Con Fennelly has a Bib Gourmand, a Wicklow restaurant he built from nothing, and one rule: the past stays where it is. He cooked in Ronan Maguire's household from sixteen to twenty and left when a door opened and didn't look back. He just cooks. He's very good at it.
Nell Marsh arrives from London with a brief — warm profile, eight hundred words, in and out — and a predisposition to be unimpressed by rural Irish food writing. She is not unimpressed. She is furious about not being unimpressed. She writes significant problem in her notebook after the first course and stays for five weeks.
Con couldn't care less what the critic thinks. He has a kitchen to run, a tasting menu to execute, and no interest in a woman who came here to write something and leave. Except she keeps coming back. And he keeps letting her in. And somewhere between the spoon and the kitchen garden and the November celeriac, it stops being manageable.
When the past he buried resurfaces and follows her into the life she's building in his orbit, Con has to face the history he's never told anyone — and she has to decide how much she's willing to risk for a story that's become something more than a story.
Ruined by the Irish Mob is a dark romance featuring a chef who built something entirely his own and a critic who can't stop pulling at the threads, found family, a kitchen garden with garlic planted fifteen centimetres apart, and the particular catastrophe of falling for someone who was supposed to be temporary.
Standalone HEA. Book Three of four. Can be read independently — richer with the series behind it.
Genre: Romance
Used availability for Cora J Riley's Ruined by the Irish Mob