She needs a husband. He needs a wife. Neither one planned to need each other.Burned-out Dublin coder Eimear Hanly inherits her grandfather's crumbling sheep farm on Ireland's Wild Atlantic Way, but only if she's married before August. Stoic farmer Aodhán O'Malley can't win custody of his orphaned niece without a stable two-parent home. A practical arrangement, strictly on paper: no strings, no feelings, no complications.Then the complications arrive.Renovating a tumbledown cottage together. Midnight stories on the cliff's edge. A small girl who starts calling Eimear by a name that isn't "Miss Hanly." Under Ballycove's wide summer skies, keeping things businesslike proves harder than either of them bargained for. And Aodhán's quiet steadiness is doing something very inconvenient to Eimear's carefully guarded heart.When a sharp-eyed social worker begins pulling at the threads of their whirlwind wedding, every stolen glance and almost-kiss could unravel everything. Aodhán can't lose his niece. Eimear can't survive another abandonment. And the only way to protect what they've built is to risk the one thing their contract never covered: the truth.Perfect for fans of sweet marriage-of-convenience romance, slow-burn Irish love stories, and found-family warmth. The Ballycove Vow is the prequel to the Love in Ballycove series, a wonderful place to start.