Stories about toxic love, true love, and choosing yourself.
Samantha Zamora writes contemporary romance that confronts toxic love, celebrates true love, and follows characters learning to trust themselves again. Her stories explore the difference between chemistry that consumes you and connection that gives you room to grow. She is the author of Drawn Together and We Were Always Headed Here, with a third novel now in progress.
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Meet Zara and Julian
A standalone story from the world of Drawn Together about connection after loss, being seen as a whole person, and the right to define your own life. At its heart, the novel asks what true love looks like when it does not control, rescue, reduce, or treat anyone as fragile.
We Were Always Headed Here
On the day Zara walks out of her sister’s wedding to the man she once trusted, she ends up alone in a Koreatown bar. Julian is already there, carrying a profound loss and expecting nothing from the stranger who takes the only open table.
What begins as two people trading honesty becomes late night messages, accidental traditions, chosen family, and a connection neither of them planned. Their relationship asks both of them to look beyond grief, fear, and the stories other people think they already understand.
For the reader who finally chooses herself
Drawn Together
Laina Bennett arrives in Los Angeles with a suitcase, a sketchbook, and the heartbreak that finally taught her to leave. Then she meets Adrian Pierce, a Hollywood star exhausted by being everyone’s idea of perfection. Their lives look nothing alike, but the connection between them asks both to stop settling for a life half lived.
Meet Samantha in person
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Every story starts with surviving the first chapter
Some of my most important stories began with a notebook. Another began when a cat showed up at my doorstep and decided to stay. His name is Teddy. Like so many rescues, he did not simply find a home. He reminded me what love looks like when it chooses you back.
If you have the chance, adopt, rescue, foster, or feed a stray. A small act of kindness can change an entire life.
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Written with love, late nights, and a cat who refuses to share the keyboard.