Welcome to the Highland Repair Shop, where mending broken things – be they clocks, compasses or hearts – is a way of life.

After a gruelling few years in city hospitals, trainee doctor Alice hopes a new, small-town post will bring quiet to her racing mind. Instead, she finds a place brimming with eccentricity and curiosity, and people who seem to see straight through her carefully controlled facade.

Murray has returned to his hometown with a broken heart and his tail between his legs. Volunteering at the family-run repair shop is meant to be temporary… until a chance encounter starts to crack his emotional armour.

Meanwhile, mountain ranger Finlay lives for solitude and the wild and rugged scenery. But when a broken compass draws him reluctantly into town life, he finds himself pulled not just into a community project, but into the kind of tangled feelings he’s spent a lifetime avoiding.

As a new garden is built and winter weather rages, lives will be patched, polished, and set on entirely new courses. Can these lonely hearts be mended and finally find happiness and love?

Titles in The Highland Repair Shop series include:  Fixing a Broken Heart at the Highland Repair Shop ~ Mending Lost Dreams at the Highland Repair Shop ~ Making Sparks Fly at the Highland Repair Shop ~

Title:  Mending Lost Dreams at the Highland Repair Shop
Series:  The Highland Repair Shop #2
Author:  Kiley Dunbar
Published:  November 22, 2025
Publisher:  Boldwood Books
My Rating:  4 stars

Mending Lost Dreams at the Highland Repair Shop is the second title in The Highland Repair Shop series.  I hadn’t yet read the first story in the series, and didn’t feel the least bit lost.  So, you could definitely read this one as a standalone, but I fully intend to go back to the beginning.

I thoroughly enjoyed this story full of quirky characters, some that I’d love to smack upside the head and others who drew me in while I desperately wanted to give them a well-deserved hug.  In other words, a lovely small town full of interesting characters, all a bit different, and all add to the enjoyment of this story.  It also addresses some mental health issues in a compassionate, understanding way, which I appreciated.

I found Mending Lost Dreams at the Highland Repair Shop by Kiley Dunbar to be well-written, full of all types of emotions, in a community that pulls together when things get rough.  Her characters come alive on the page, and I was fully invested in each one finding their eventual happiness.

*I received an e-ARC of this novel from the publisher via NetGalley, and I sincerely thank the author or publishing house for their trust. It is my choice to leave a review giving my personal opinion about this book.*

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