Diaspora Hearts, (Paperback)

<p>Aisling thought distance would fix it.</p><p>One flight. One suitcase. One clean break from Belfast-its gossip, its silence, and the family who looked at her like she'd turned into a stranger in her own kitchen.</p><p>Toronto is supposed to be a restart: long shifts, quiet streets, new routines. A place where nobody knows her name, or what she's done. But loneliness has a way of echoing, and some homes follow you across oceans.</p><p>Then she meets Mark O'Connor-steady hands, quiet humour, and a life built from the same kind of Irish inheritance: stories, stubbornness, and a heart that doesn't scare easily. He's the sort of man who fixes what's broken without making you feel like the damage is who you are.</p><p>As Aisling begins to rebuild, the past refuses to stay buried. A letter arrives. Belfast calls. And the question stops being can she start again-and becomes can she go back and face what she left behind... without losing the life she's finally begun to claim?</p><p>Diaspora Hearts is an emotionally grounded Irish romance about exile and belonging, the families who wound us, and the love that helps us come home-first to ourselves, and then to everything we were afraid to face.</p>

• Diaspora Hearts, (Paperback)
• Author: Laura Carpenter
• ISBN: 9798233826092
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2026-01-15
• Page Count: 270