Drifting Dawn: Scottish Isles Series, Book 2

Eighteen years is a long time to nurse a broken heart—but apparently not long enough.

When family obligation drags Taran back to the rugged Scottish Isles she swore she'd never call home again, the last person she expects to find waiting is Quinn McQuarrie. He's older now, steadier, devastatingly handsome—and the single father the entire town has decided deserves his happy ending. What the town doesn't know is that Quinn is also the man who shattered Taran's world before she was old enough to recover from it.

Taran's plan is simple: fulfill her duty, keep her walls up, and leave. Quinn, for his part, seems just as determined to maintain a careful distance. The problem is that distance becomes impossible when Taran throws herself into rescuing the local lifeboat service from collapse, and the only contractor capable of making it happen is Quinn himself.

Working side by side on Scotland's windswept coastline, surrounded by crashing tides and a community that's watching their every move, the carefully constructed barriers between them begin to crack. Old wounds resurface alongside older feelings, and Taran starts to wonder whether she's been holding onto the right memories—or just the painful ones.

Quinn isn't the boy who hurt her anymore. But trusting the man he's become might cost her everything she's spent eighteen years protecting.

*Drifting Dawn* is a slow-burn second-chance romance that proves some hearts only find their harbor after weathering the storm.