The wall. The warmth. The crack that becomes a door. Ciarán Doyle has been Ronan Maguire's most trusted man for eleven years. Contained. Reliable. Present. He doesn't show things. He doesn't ask for things. He doesn't let people in — not because he won't, but because nobody ever taught him how. Until Síofra Keane takes his handkerchief at a wedding and looks at him like he's already fine. Seventeen phone calls. Three drives. One emergency in a Dublin café... moreThe wall. The warmth. The crack that becomes a door. Ciarán Doyle has been Ronan Maguire's most trusted man for eleven years. Contained. Reliable. Present. He doesn't show things. He doesn't ask for things. He doesn't let people in — not because he won't, but because nobody ever taught him how. Until Síofra Keane takes his handkerchief at a wedding and looks at him like he's already fine. Seventeen phone calls. Three drives. One emergency in a Dublin café. And a man who's spent his whole life being useful to everyone but himself slowly, carefully, terrifyingly learning what it means to let someone in. Síofra sees the pattern of him from the first night — the door, the light under it, the handle on his side that he doesn't know is there. She's patient. She's decided. She knocks until he hears it. When his past surfaces and uses her as leverage against the operation, Ciarán discovers the limit of what he'll tolerate and what he'll do about it. And what it means to protect something you finally admitted you wanted. Claimed by the Irish Mob is a slow-burn dark romance featuring an emotionally closed hero learning to let himself have things, a warm and relentless heroine who finds every crack, found family, a workshop above a hardware shop, and the linen-and-silk cloth that is the record of all of it. Standalone HEA. Book Two of the Kept by the Irish Mob Series. Can be read independently but is richer after Book One. less
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