Books 1 & 2 out now

The Hartigans of Kilmurrin

Five feel-good romances set in a windswept Connemara village where everyone knows your business, the weather has opinions, and love turns up at the least convenient moment.

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The series

Five Hartigans. Five happily-ever-afters.

One big-hearted family, one tiny harbour village, and five people who are absolutely, definitely not looking for love. (Kilmurrin has other ideas.)

  1. The Inn at Last Chance Bay by E. H. Quill: Nell and Callum outside the Salt & Heather inn with a goat, above Kilmurrin harbour Book 1

    The Inn at Last Chance Bay

    Nell & Callum

    Seventy-four days to save the inn, and one architect sent to knock it down.

    Out now on Kindle
  2. Fake It Till You Bake It by E. H. Quill: Róisín at her bakery counter with Finn the vet and a goat, Kilmurrin harbour at sunset Book 2

    Fake It Till You Bake It

    Róisín & Finn

    A fake engagement, a wedding cake, and a vet who has loved her since he was fourteen.

    Out now on Kindle
  3. Across the Harbour by E. H. Quill: Aoife and chef Luca at a candlelit harbourside table at Christmas, with a goat Book 3

    Across the Harbour

    Aoife & Luca

    A formidable solicitor, a TV chef across the harbour, and a stew competition.

    Coming soon
  4. Where the Puffins Nest by E. H. Quill: Maeve with a camera and skipper Declan on the boat Molly-B with a goat, puffins and sea stacks behind Book 4

    Where the Puffins Nest

    Declan & Maeve

    Ten years ago he let her go. Now she needs his boat, and he can’t stop being seasick.

    Coming soon
  5. The Last Hartigan by E. H. Quill: Tess reading a guestbook at the Salt & Heather while Rory the postman writes, with a goat Book 5

    The Last Hartigan

    Tess & Rory

    An anonymous guestbook, a shy postman, and someone who has been writing all along.

    Coming soon
Book 1 · Out now The Inn at Last Chance Bay by E. H. Quill: Nell and Callum outside the Salt & Heather inn with a goat, above Kilmurrin harbour
The Hartigans of Kilmurrin · Book 1

Nell Hartigan has seventy-four days to save the Salt & Heather before the bank takes the keys.

The Inn at Last Chance Bay

She has a plan, a spreadsheet for the plan, and no time for anything that isn’t on it.

Then Callum Vance arrives. He’s the architect sent by the developer who wants to buy the inn, and he’s exactly the kind of man Nell doesn’t need: sharp-suited, relentlessly practical and far too interested in every crack, leak and questionable bit of plumbing in the building.

A storm keeps him at the Salt & Heather longer than either of them planned. Somewhere between the failing boiler, the leaking roof and one deeply unhelpful goat, Callum stops looking for reasons to tear the place down.

Worse, Nell starts to realise he may be the first person in years who sees how much she’s carrying.

Saving the inn was supposed to be the hard part.

  • 🏚️ Save the inn
  • ⛈️ Stranded by a storm
  • 📋 Spreadsheet heroine
  • 📐 Sharp-suited hero
  • 🐐 Chaos goat
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What you'll find in Kilmurrin

  • Small-town romance
  • Big, meddling family
  • Forced proximity
  • Opposites attract
  • Banter-filled slow burn
  • Found family
  • Seaside village life
  • Guaranteed happy endings
Welcome to

Kilmurrin

Heather on the cliffs, gorse along the harbour wall, and a pub-sized population that treats your love life as a community project.

The stone harbour at Kilmurrin with a red-and-white lighthouse and fishing boats

The harbour

Fishing boats, a lighthouse, and a sea wall where every piece of village gossip gets its first airing.

The goat

Deeply unhelpful. Frequently involved. Answers to no one.

The heather

Pink on the hills, purple in the window boxes, and, somehow, in every scene that matters.

Inside the Salt & Heather: a window seat, the guestbook and a view of the harbour

The Salt & Heather

The inn at the heart of the village: creaky, leaky, and loved. It has seventy-four days left, unless Nell has anything to say about it.

The weather

Sunshine at breakfast, a gale by lunch. Excellent for stranding handsome strangers.

The Hartigans

Five of them, one family, and not a single one of them can mind their own business.

Also by E. H. Quill

For darker nights

The Ashes and Silk series

Before Kilmurrin there was Vale House: a completed dark romantic suspense trilogy of debts, locked doors, morally grey billionaires and secrets buried in the walls.

Heads up: Ashes and Silk is dark romance, with a very different mood from the Hartigans. Best read in order, starting with The Debt He Claimed.

Explore the trilogy

  1. The Debt He Claimed by E. H. Quill, book cover

    The Debt He Claimed

    Book 1 · Out now
  2. The Last File by E. H. Quill, book cover

    The Last File

    Book 2 · Out now
  3. Lies That Kept Her by E. H. Quill, book cover

    Lies That Kept Her

    Book 3 · Out now
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The author

Hello, I'm E. H. Quill

I write love stories with big feelings and bigger stakes. The Hartigans of Kilmurrin is my sunniest series yet: warm, funny, small-town romance about a family who love fiercely, argue loudly and fall in love at the worst possible moment.

If you like your romance darker, my Ashes and Silk trilogy is waiting behind the locked doors of Vale House. Either way, there's always a happy ending. Some just take a stranger road to get there.

E. H. Quill

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