Drawn Together by Samantha Zamora
A love story about survival, self-discovery, and the courage to believe that you might not be too broken to be loved.
If you gravitate to emotionally messy heroines, simmering tension, and a city that feels like a character, Drawn Together is that dog eared paperback you keep lending to friends and never get back.
“Drawn Together masterfully balances love, trauma, and emotional recovery. Laina’s story is raw, beautiful, and unforgettable.”
Rabia Tanveer, Readers’ Favorite
Drawn Together: What Happens When You Finally Choose Yourself
Laina Bennett arrives in Los Angeles with a suitcase, a sketchbook, and the kind of heartbreak that forces you to grow a new spine overnight. She knows she should have left long before she did, but it takes one final blow for her to walk away from the life that nearly erased her. LA feels enormous, electric, and unforgiving, which is exactly why she stays. If she can make it here, it means she did not survive everything for nothing.
Then she meets Adrian Pierce, the last person she expects to run into in a tiny art store. Everyone else sees a Hollywood legend. Laina sees someone exhausted by being everyone’s idea of perfection. Their first conversations last longer than they should. Their chemistry grows faster than either of them is ready for. LA pulls them into late night drives, rooftop moments, and a connection that feels like momentum rather than escape.
Their lives look nothing alike. He has fame, pressure, and a career that belongs to millions of strangers. She has talent, fire, and nothing left to lose. Somehow they still fit. Not because he rescues her or she rescues him, but because they both stop pretending they are fine with a life that feels half awake.
Drawn Together is a romance about second chances, ambition, and falling into a love that feels impossible in every way except the one that matters. It is for readers who want passion, chaos, tenderness, and two people who refuse to shrink for anyone ever again.
A new Los Angeles love story about betrayal, starting over from nothing, found family, and the fierce relief of finally being seen.
For readers who love broken engagement drama, he falls first energy, and a hero who is tired of being anyone’s lesson.
Readers’ Favorite Five Star Award
Readers’ Favorite is an international book review site that connects everyday readers, librarians, and reviewers with indie and traditionally published authors. Their reviewers read the full book and give a true rating rather than a quick skim.
Drawn Together received a full five star review, along with praise for its honest portrayal of heartbreak, healing, and family history. The quote above is from that editorial review, not a paid pull quote.
In book world language, that tiny silver circle means this story hit a nerve in the best way. It is for readers who see themselves in the girl who keeps giving one more chance and finally learns that she deserves better.
We Were Always Headed Here: A Love Story That Begins On The Worst Day
On the day Zara Whitmore is supposed to watch her sister marry the man she once trusted with her entire twenties, she walks out. She leaves the dress, the speeches, the guests, all of it. One step becomes two. Two steps become a journey through Koreatown. She ends up in a bar that smells like citrus and old stories and takes the only open table.
Julian is already there with a book and the kind of tired focus that belongs to someone who rebuilt his life the hard way.
Julian notices her the way artists notice things, the kind of beauty that comes from someone who has lived through fire and still shows up anyway. She notices the way he skips the empty chatter and goes straight to the real stuff, like he has no interest in pretending for strangers. Neither of them means to stay long. Neither of them ends up leaving when they say they will.
Zara has no idea that Julian has already lived through the kind of night that splits a life into before and after. His apartment is filled with color, rescued animals, and the small rituals that keep him steady. Letting someone new close asks for more courage than he meant to spend, right up until the girl who wandered in acting like she wasn’t falling apart sits across from him and refuses to treat him like a tragedy.
What begins as strangers trading honesty over watered cocktails turns into late night messages, inside jokes, accidental traditions, and a pull that keeps dragging them back into each other’s orbit. Family storms, old grief, and the secret that changed Julian’s life all wait for their moment, but so does the possibility that this time, neither of them runs.
We Were Always Headed Here is a contemporary romance for readers who want emotional chaos, found family, and a relationship that feels earned. Think city lights, rescue pets, holiday nights, and the dizzy relief of realizing that the right person showed up exactly when your life fell apart.
Launching Winter 2025, ideal for curling up with during holiday chaos or gifting to the romance lover who wants their heart wrecked and put back together in one book.
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