I’m Kiley Dunbar, a Scottish, working class author of romantic fiction. I have two kids, one Bedlington Terrier and I live in England with my partner of twenty five (!) years.
Join in the romantic fun in summer 2025 as I launch a brand new series, starting with Fixing a Broken Heart at the Highland Repair Shop for the magnificent Boldwood Books.
I can’t wait to take you to the little Cairngorms Fixing Factory where nobody ever takes broken for an answer, and that goes for broken hearts too!
Publishing romantic fiction felt like nothing but a dream right up until I turned forty in 2019. That’s when my debut novel, One Summer’s Night, was released by the fabulous Hera Books (and was a Joan Hessayon Award for New Writers finalist). Before that I’d poured all my writing mojo into a doctorate and an academic career, but a campus closure and impending redundancy gave me the push I needed to start dreaming of telling the love stories I’d wanted to write for years. I have published eleven novels including my bestselling The Borrow a Bookshop Holiday. You can buy my books here.
Would you like to write your novel with me? You can access my new romance writing webinar series with Patreon.
I hope you enjoy reading my books. I love taking a destination close to my heart and adding a wee bit of drama, magic and romance to really make it my own.
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Love, Kiley, x
