Around the World in 80 Days Mini Reading Challenge: Ireland and Northern Ireland

Sam must decide if she's willing to risk losing her found family to find her happily ever after

When Brooke and Sam cross the line of friendship, they both yearn for more. A chance encounter initiates a journey to Sam’s birth family, revealing wounds that threaten their once indestructible friendship and any chance for more.

This sapphic romance features a neurodivergent lead who discovers love in found family.

Nora McNeill’s summer in Ireland is living up to her dreams, except for the ghost in her cottage.

As Nora’s ghost becomes more demanding, Briana watches Nora seem to fade away. Past and present are on a collision course, leaving Nora and Briana caught in a ghostly intrigue.

Sleep may never come easily again.

A sapphic Irish, neo-gothic haunted house story.

For Irish-Indian lesbian activist, JAYA DILLON, an outsider who craves belonging over all else, survival depends on hiding the truth of who she is and who she loves - from herself.

Jaya is drawn into a fictional world that may be truer than reality. As she fights to uncover the truth, everything she thought she knew about her politics and her place in the world turns on its head as she falls for the elusive Lana, is attracted to the charming, gay French-Algerian Ishmael and his beautiful sister Isabella, and confronts her unresolved feelings and dread over the choices Chloe is making.

KIRAN is the only vision painter working in Ireland, the only female in the ancient Indian profession.

As a vision painter, she paints the hopes and dreams of her clients into existence. Her practice is not doing well and she works as a waitress in a struggling restaurant in Connemara. When Kiran is asked to paint the forbidden, forces are unleashed that she cannot contain, including two infuriating women with whom she must work in a race to restore order and save her gift.

When Grace Danner finds out her great-aunt has passed away leaving her a flower shop in Ireland, she is anxious to get it off her hands as quickly as possible.

She meets real estate agent Kerry Mulligan who was consigned to the property quite by accident. Their relationship starts off rocky, and as much as Grace wants to get to know the red-haired Irish beauty in the short time she is there, Kerry is nothing but business. Can Grace break through Kerry’s icy disposition and open her up to a quick affair? Even if Grace manages to seduce Kerry, can she return unscathed to the life she left in Dallas?

A second chance romance about friendship, new beginnings, and putting the pieces back together.

Rae:

Real love has evaded me since Lindsay, my first love and the girl I left behind.

My second chance has come, and the girl I loved is now a woman with a broken heart. She’s a shadow, and everything in me yearns to coax her back to life.

In Dublin, 1918, a maternity ward at the height of the Great Flu is a small world of work, risk, death, and unlooked-for love, in "Donoghue's best novel since Room" (Kirkus Reviews).

In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city center, where expectant mothers who have come down with the terrible new Flu are quarantined together. Into Julia’s regimented world step two outsiders—Doctor Kathleen Lynn, a rumoured Rebel on the run from the police, and a young volunteer helper, Bridie Sweeney.

A Nice Clean Murder, the second in the Kate Ryan Mysteries series, finds Kate’s brother-in-law, Mac, heir to a small family estate in the wild west of Ireland; bequeathed to him by an uncle he barely knew.

Kate finds this a little suspicious, but as her family, she too is excited about Mac’s inheritance.

When a young Irishman collapses on Kate’s doorstep, her suspicions are justified. She is now sure that Mac’s Uncle Brian did not ‘accidentally fall off the cliff’ as reported. So, she agrees to accompany Mac and Teri on their trip across the Atlantic.

Haunting and lyrical, The Mermaid’s Daughter asks—how far we will go for those we love? And can the transformative power of music overcome a magic that has prevailed for generations?

A modern-day expansion of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid, this unforgettable debut novel weaves a spellbinding tale of magic and the power of love as a descendent of the original mermaid fights the terrible price of saving herself from a curse that has affected generations of women in her family.

Can a road trip through Ireland rekindle their love, ignite laughter, and offer the second chance they yearn for?

In the enchanting landscapes of Ireland, Fiona and Addison find their once-blissful romance teetering on the edge of collapse. After thirteen months of fiery love, their relationship has hit a rocky patch. Determined to salvage the love they hold dear, the couple embarks on a ten-day off the beaten track itinerary, seeking to rekindle the fiery heat they once had.

She had to travel thousands of miles to find her true love.

When eyes meet in Dublin Airport, Lori’s heart flutters. She knows that falling for a straight woman could lead to embarrassment or heartbreak. Kaitlyn has given up on romance but befriends the younger lesbian. What do they say about spaghetti?

From Northern Ireland to Southern California and back—a mother and daughter confront the violence of the past in an enthralling novel about the possibility of love and redemption during the most transforming and unsettled times.

It’s the final years of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, and Bríd and her sister, Ina, try to maintain a stable life in a divided country. Pushed by her mother’s fanaticism and a family tragedy, Bríd joins the IRA and makes a devastating choice. Frightened and guilt ridden, she flees, leaving behind Ireland and her family for America.

Years later, her guilt and tragic history still buried, Bríd is an overprotective mother raising her sensitive daughter, Bernie, in Southern California.

One woman finds an unforgettable love when worlds collide.

In 1982, when Jane meets Nancy, an American journalist in Northern Ireland, she becomes her guide and protector navigating the Troubles. Dangerous circumstances push Nancy into Jane’s arms, and they find themselves living lives they never dreamed possible.

It’s never too late to find your heart in this gentle, opposites attract lesbian romance.

Between their combined emotional baggage and badly misguided set-up attempts by the bride, Dani and Sophie struggle to find a way to be together.

Under the beautiful Irish night skies, can two unlikely, lonely souls discover love?

Ellie, Kate, Peggy and Aggie are off on a trip to Northern Ireland.

They hope to unite Ellie with her long lost half brother. Murder and hijinks follow the group however and Ellie must join forces with an old school friend to solve a murder at a hippie commune.