For fans of The Holiday & Letters to Juliet comes a delicious story about losing your way and finding your life . . . in Ireland. Book 1 of The Irish Heart Series Original Trilogy.
Elizabeth Lara built a perfect life as San Francisco's top divorce attorney, but when she loses her great-aunt Mags, the woman who raised her, she boards a plane and leaves it all behind.
Mags has left Elizabeth a box of seventeen lettersexpressly written to help guide Elizabeth back to herself. The first reveals a shocking truth, kept secret for thirty-five years.
Reeling from the revelation, Elizabeth thinks Ireland will be the perfect place to find some peace.
But her serene Irish escape isn't the respite from reality she expected. Fate instead delivers an embarrassing encounter with Irishman Connor Bannonthe striking cottage owner, Ireland's most eligible bachelor, and her nearest neighbor.
Elizabeth's aching to feel like herself again, but escaping her life of black and gray and learning to live again won't be easy. The letters help, the fresh Irish air too, but nothing moves the needle quite like the man just up the lake . . . Connor.
With the help of Mags' letters, the colorful townspeople of Dingle, and Connor, Elizabeth uncovers decades-old family secrets, kicks up her heels to the Irish music, lets her hair down, and finds a way back to who she really is.
Come journey with Elizabeth in a story that explores the twists and turns of life, the magic of new beginnings, and the timeless allure of Ireland.
This is more than a romantic storyit's an invitation to rediscover life's possibilities.
Lose your way and find your life in Ireland.
Reading Order:
The Irish Heart Series Original Trilogy:
The Irish Cottage: Finding Elizabeth (Book 1)
The London Flat: Second Chances (Book 2)
The Paris Apartment: Fated Journey (Book 3)
. . . and for the readers who wanted more . . . 5 years later . . .
The Irish Heart Series Continuing Trilogy:
The Irish Castle: Keeping Elizabeth (Book 4)
The Irish Secret: Wild Fire (Book 5)
The Irish Wedding: A Novel Romance (Book 6)
Juliet Gauvin's books are feel-good romantic women's fiction. They include international travel, holidays, contemporary women, and epic love.
A Note From Juliet:
Be forewarned you might not want to start this book late at nightseveral readers have reported "gobbling it up" and going on to the next book immediately. This book is romantic women's fiction, it is not a traditional romance.
It's a trilogy, not a standalone. All three books are vital to the story: The Irish Cottage, The London Flat, and The Paris Apartment. That being said, I've found that traditional romance readers are VERY happy at the end of London. So take a ride with me, first to Ireland and then the world.
INTERVIEW WITH THE AUTHOR Q: How did you come up with The Irish Cottage? Juliet: Well the story came together in pieces. I love Ireland, I've always been attracted to the country, the people, the music, the dancing. I've spent time traveling the country so I knew I wanted to set the book there. And then the character of Elizabeth was based on a lot of the experiences I had when I was in law in San Francisco. When I was immersed in that world--it was a very dark time, and I really did lose my way--like Elizabeth. I even let long-time relationships die because I was in such a dark place, i