When Cillian Devlin comes home to Belfast, it's supposed to be for one last duty: say goodbye to the woman who held their family together. But grief has a way of dragging the living into the truth, and the truth waiting in Devlin's Café has a name he still can't say without bleeding-Saoirse.
Years ago, he left with big promises and no plan for keeping them. She stayed, built a life from exhaustion and love, and raised two bright, feral little lions who make the café feel like a home again. The problem is, Cillian doesn't just have to earn Saoirse back-he has to earn the right to be part of the family he didn't know existed.
Set in a city that remembers, The Ties That Made Us is a second-chance romance about found family, old wounds, and the quiet heroics of showing up-day after day-until love stops feeling like a risk and starts feeling like shelter.
A Belfast second-chance romance: he comes home for a funeral, walks into a life that moved on without him, and discovers the family he never knew he had. Tender, funny, and fierce, this story is about grief, forgiveness, found family, and earning love the hard way.
