When the Shamrocks Turn Gold (Love in Ballymara, #3)

Enemies-to-Lovers Small-Town Irish Romance

One festival week, a reluctant sponsor, and a spark neither of them can ignore!

To save The Seaglass Inn, they must steal the spotlight. Falling for each other is the risk!

March blows into Ballymara with marching drums, green bunting, and tourists hungry for a picture-perfect village! Róisín, the sharp-tongued pub manager of The Mariner’s Rest, has no patience for outsiders, especially not Declan, the returning golden boy whose sponsorship could make or break Seaglass. Then the developer announces a polished launch party timed for St Patrick’s week, designed to win the town and press. Róisín and Declan strike a truce: they will outshine it with a community parade and a ceilí night no one forgets!

Róisín runs on competence and grit. She carried the pub, the committee, and half the village’s worries on her back for years. She refuses to watch Ballymara be packaged and sold. Declan claims he is only here to donate money and keep his head down, but his careful distance feels like judgement. He is too polished, too calm, too used to leaving when things get messy...

Except Declan is not calm. Not really. He watches Róisín move through chaos like a general, and something in him loosens. He knows what it is to be the one who left. He knows what it is to come back carrying regret and call it success. Working together means late-night planning, last-minute disasters, and the kind of teamwork that turns sparks into heat. Róisín hates how easily Declan matches her. Declan hates how much he wants her approval.

Then they find the fine print: A quiet legal threat that could cut Ballymara off from its prized coastal path and hand the headland to the developer forever. Suddenly the festival is not just celebration. It’s a fight!

And in the middle of it all, Róisín and Declan must decide what they are willing to risk for The Seaglass Inn, for Ballymara, and for each other.

If they lose this week, they lose the headland. If they win, they might not be able to walk away...