I hope you all had a wonderful holiday and can spend a few days relaxing between now and the new year. My plans for the next week (I don't have to go back to work until January 2nd) are to read, write, and workout. Not necessarily in that order. Oh, and to graze on the endless goodies in my fridge.

After cleaning up, I spent a good portion of my morning loading up my Kindle with twenty free books and another hour walking on my elliptical while I scrolled through my TBR and decided on a book to read. Where did I find these books? On Romance Book Worms Stuff Your Kindle website. There are hundreds and hundreds of books for free! You can search by genre or vibe. It can be overwhelming, so I stopped after a bit, but I plan to return for more tonight.

In the meantime, I can make your scrolling easy by linking my freebie, Staying Grounded. It's the first book in my Rocky Harbor series, centered around four foster kids adopted by the same family when they were teens. Now they're all adults and looking for their happily ever after. Well, they're not all looking, but it comes knocking on their door whether they're ready or not.

Staying Grounded:

Graham Riley's world is in freefall. After a public altercation with a passenger goes viral, the hotshot pilot is grounded—his wings clipped until he completes anger management classes. Desperate to escape the media circus in Texas, he heads to Rocky Harbor, Maine, to lay low at his adopted parents’ home. But the small-town refuge might be just what he needs to figure out his next move. Or it might be the last place he expects to find a distraction that could derail everything.

Maggie O’Fallon lives a life built on control. With a career as a therapist and a love for all things steady and predictable, she only dates men with normal 9-5 jobs. But when Graham walks into her office with his rugged charm and those arresting steel-blue eyes, all her rules go out the window. There’s an undeniable chemistry between them, but Maggie isn’t sure she can risk her heart on a man who lives in the skies—and can disappear just as easily.

When a private investigator starts threatening to expose their growing connection, Graham must decide whether to stand and fight, or follow his usual instinct and take flight. And for Maggie, the stakes are higher than ever—her reputation and career are on the line, along with her heart.

As a lawsuit looms and the pressure builds, Graham faces a choice: keep running, or finally land where his heart belongs. But is Maggie ready to take a leap of faith with him, or will he lose her forever?

This time, love may be the one thing he can't escape.

Happy reading and Happy New Year!

Marianne xoxoxo