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Kavanagh Irish Mafia · Book 1

Forged

A Kavanagh Irish Mafia Romance

Ciaran Kavanagh & Larkin Anderson

Heat and pressure make something harder. They also make it impossible to return to its original shape.

Ciaran runs the trades and keeps the family’s machinery moving. Larkin works special investigations for a commercial insurer—and she has found a name on his payroll that should not exist.

Ghost employees, missing materials, and a signature Ciaran never wrote force them into the same investigation. The closer they get to the truth, the more each of them decides what the other is allowed to carry.

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Content & trigger warnings

Spoiler note: Specific warnings can reveal plot elements. Open the level of detail that feels right for you.

Catalog baseline warnings
  • Explicit sexual content, on-page, scorching heat level
  • Organized crime and criminal-enterprise settings
  • Morally gray to morally black heroes
  • Possessive and protective hero dynamics
  • Power imbalance handled within the fantasy
  • Guns, physical violence, or threat of violence, varying by title
  • Death and grief, on-page and referenced
  • Heavy alcohol use
  • Adult language throughout
  • Catholic religious content and imagery
  • Family dysfunction and estrangement

Every Cara Hollis book ends with a Happily Ever After. That is a promise.

Forged — spoiler-light notes

FORGED is a dark romance with a guaranteed Happily Ever After. The darkness lives in the world and the stakes, never in how the hero treats the heroine. These notes are intentionally spoiler-light.

On the page

  • Explicit open-door sexual content, strong language, and alcohol use, including heavy drinking
  • Organized crime and criminal activity, including financial crime
  • The sudden death of a family member, followed by grief, a wake, and funeral content
  • One scene of physical violence
  • A broken engagement involving secondary characters
  • Emotional withdrawal during a crisis and betrayals of trust involving family and longtime friends

Referenced or in the background

  • A manipulative parent and adult-child estrangement
  • A historical killing in the family’s past
  • Catholic faith, ritual, and guilt

If you have a specific concern that is not answered here, email author-cara@carahollis.com and I’ll tell you plainly.

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