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Publisher: Avelrow Publishing
Pages: 370
Weight: 1.09
Height: 0.82 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
She spent her life making the world understandable for everyone else. He may be the first man who understands her without asking her to disappear.
A light can warn you away.
Or it show you the way home.
Orla NÃ RÃain has built her life around making things clear. As an interpreter, she knows the importance of being heard, understood and given the freedom to choose. Back in coastal Kerry to help her father recover and rebuild a life with fewer emergencies, she has one rule for herself: no more mistaking exhaustion for usefulness.
Then she meets Dara O'Shea.
Dara works with the harbour lights-the practical, weather-beaten systems that keep people safe when the sea turns difficult. He is steady, thoughtful and infuriatingly good at asking before stepping closer. He is also the father of Alva, a bright, fiercely capable girl whose world includes Irish Sign Language, star-covered ear defenders and absolutely no patience for adults making unnecessary drama.
Orla knows better than to blur professional boundaries.
So does Dara.
What grows between them has to happen somewhere else: over tea and storm warnings, community projects and quiet walks, small acts of competence, ridiculous labels and the increasingly dangerous discovery that being cared for does not have to mean surrendering control.
Around them, a coastal community is learning the same lesson. New harbour lights become a larger conversation about accessibility, dignity and what it really means to build a place that brings everyone safely home.
But Orla has spent too long being the person who copes.
To choose Dara, Alva and the possibility of a shared future, she will have to believe that love does not need rescuing, performing or earning.
Sometimes it only needs two people willing to keep asking the same simple question.
Signal check?
Signal Light is a warm, emotionally rich contemporary Irish romance about boundaries, belonging, accessible community, chosen family and a love built carefully enough to last.
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