Claddagh and Carnage

Love. Loyalty. Death. In Belfast, they all play the same tune.

Three years ago on Valentine’s Day, Róisín Malloy lost everything—her brother, her future, and the boy she would have burned the world for. She thought Finnian O’Callaghan betrayed her, so she buried a blade in his flesh…and let the music of her violin fall silent.

Now the lies rotting beneath their war-torn city are surfacing. Finn needs a name—one only Róisín might know.

He finds her broken and bleeding, bow in hand, planning to take what he came for and disappear. But some obsessions don’t die easy. Not when her blood is still on his hands. Not when her music still haunts his nights like sin.

He was her first kiss.

She was his first kill.

And in Belfast, Valentine’s Day never ends without carnage—only a final, fatal note.