Release & Review: Drifting Dawn

 

Release date: 4/16/2026

🩵 Dual POV
🌊 Enemies to Lovers
🩵 First Love
🌊 Forced Proximity
🩵 Found Family
🌊 It’s Always Been You
🩵 Mental Health Rep
🌊 Scottish Countryside
🩵 Second Chance
🌊 Single Dad
🩵 Slow Burn

Book Blurb

After eighteen years, I’ve come home to the Scottish island of my childhood. It’s the place I vowed I wouldn’t return to so I never again had to see the man who broke my heart into a million pieces.

Yet family has inevitably brought me back, and avoiding my ex, Quinn McQuarrie, is proving impossible when he insists on digging up the past every time we meet.

Quinn is now a single dad, the local contractor, and the person the entire town is rooting for to get his happily ever after. The problem is, he wants me to be his HEA, and I just want to move on. When Quinn sees my plans to save the town’s volunteer lifeboat service as an opportunity to work together, I’m stuck with him. And, unfortunately, I soon realize there’s no denying that the chemistry we share has only grown more intense with the passing of time.

I know Quinn wants more than just a physical relationship, but it’s all I can promise with so much hurt and distrust between us.

However, when strange disturbances escalate to harassment, our lives are turned upside down, and Quinn proves he will do anything in his power to protect me. Even if it means losing each other before we ever get our second chance…

Drifting Dawn (Scottish Isles Series Book 2)

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Review

This is book 2 in the Scottish Isles series and is just as fabulous as the first book. We meet quin in the first book. He is the contractor on the island. This is a true second chance romance.  Hearts were never sour, they just needed to remember each other again. 

Lots of water under the bridge in 18 years. Regardless of the why, these two were meant to be together. They were both young and inexperienced in love when Tarren left for university. Now Quinn is a single dad. Tarren is back on the island. They are bound to see each other.

So do they fall back in love because they are together again? Would they have sought each other out if Tarren's mother hadn't passed? Not sure. Regardless, they worked through some angst, worked through their  truths and decide to give it a go again. 

This author always gives us some suspense to tie into the story. I don't know that in this case it was a benefit to the writing. There was a lot to manage just with the two of them and their families and friends.  

I do love the setting so much. I love the town.  I am looking forward to book 3. 

I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

About  the  Author

Samantha is a New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, #1 Amazon bestselling author and a Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee. She has written over 65 books and is published in 31 countries. Samantha writes contemporary romance and romantic suspense novels, often set where she resides — in her beloved home country of Scotland. She also writes paranormal and fantasy novels under her pen name S. Young. When Samantha’s not writing she splits her time between her family and chasing after two very mischievous cavapoos.

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