Above the Fold: A Newsroom Romantic Suspense

By Laura Carpenter

Some promises wash away. Ink doesn't.When her father-the editor who raised a town on headlines-dies, Cl odhna "Clio" Fallon inherits a failing Irish weekly and a battered lockbox with one name set in lead: Larkin. The mayor is Inishvale's golden boy. The box is a map of hush money, a missing girl's paper trail, and a secret that could wreck a family-and a town that prefers its stories tidy.
Keeping the Gazette alive means more than swapping toner and sorting obits; it means printing what the powerful won't. It also means partnering with the one man Clio swore off: Ruar O'Shea, the raven-voiced podcaster who turned their breakup into a public implosion. He is the last person she wants in her pressroom. He may be the only person who can help her resurrect it.
As the presses rumble back to life, old loyalties snap. Sources go quiet. Advertisers threaten. Someone slips the lock on the newsroom door. Between funeral casseroles and council meetings, between the comfort of what's always been and the fear of what truth will cost, Clio and Ruar chase a story that keeps changing shape-until it drops a byline on the one place neither of them can ignore: home.
The deeper they dig, the clearer the choice: protect the people they love or print the thing that will burn it all down. But there's a reason headlines sit above the fold. They're the first thing you see. They're the promise a paper makes about what matters.
Set against rain-bright streets and the thunder of an old press, Above the Fold is a romantic, propulsive story about inheritance and accountability, about the difference between gossip and news, and about the kind of courage that comes ink-stained and imperfect. Clio must decide what she owes to the dead who taught her to tell the truth-and to the living who might break under it. Ruar must decide whether chasing a story means losing the woman who is, maddeningly, the whole of his.
For readers who love small-town stakes with big-city voltage, newsroom grit with second-chance heat, and mysteries that unwind one column inch at a time. If you've ever kept a clipping, if you've ever loved someone you had no business loving, if you've ever watched a press start and felt something in your chest answer back-this one's for you.
Above the Fold proves that some stories refuse to be buried. And once the truth is set in type, it's forever.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0G2JDP49G
• ISBN13: 9798274681889
• Release Date: November 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 322 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"