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New Adult · Slow Burn · Emotional Damage

Scars, secrets, and
love that refuses to look away.

Slow-burn, steamy, unapologetically messy. Stories about the people who break you, and the ones who help you start over.

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Three series, six books (and counting). Pick your poison.

Fragile Things — cover Folkestone Sins · Book 01 Fragile
Things Samantha Lovelock

Fragile Things

#01

Where it all begins. In Folkestone, the Founding Families bury their secrets. And anyone who threatens to dig them up.
The Sea At Dawn — cover Preorder Heartbreak · Book 02 The Sea
At Dawn Samantha Lovelock

The Sea At Dawn

#02 · July 2026

Healing isn't pretty. Neither is falling in love. Kess and Vann's story (read The Sky At Night first).
Cruel Darlings — cover Preorder Rowthorne · Book 01 Cruel
Darlings Samantha Lovelock

Cruel Darlings

#01 · October 2026

Three best friends. Two broken promises. One deadly secret. Welcome to Rowthorne.

The Series

Three worlds, all chaotic in the best way.

Series One

Folkestone Sins

Four books so far · Wounded Things coming later 2026

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Series Two

Heartbreak duet

One book so far · The Sea At Dawn coming July 2026.

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Series Three

Welcome to Rowthorne

Three books ahead · Cruel Darlings coming October 2026.

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Readers say

"The power of this story lies in the contrast of hopelessness and fresh start, despair and new friendship, anger and forgiveness, pain and healing."
— PPs Bookshelf · ★★★★★
"Samantha’s writing is beautifully descriptive without going overboard and her characters are deliciously complicated."
— Reader review · The Sky At Night
"The banter is top notch and had me kicking my feet."
— ★★★★★ · Goodreads

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Samantha Lovelock

About Samantha

I write about the mess we make and the people who love us anyway.

I'm drawn to the slow burn, the grudge that becomes a crush, the healing that doesn't happen in a straight line. My books are for people who want the tension and the tenderness, no cutting corners on either.

Also: comfy pants, unhinged group chats, and enough flavours of tea to open a shop.

— Samantha
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