It's FINALLY time for some cozy fall vibes!


If you’re new, welcome! So glad to have ya. I’m Finley, and I write contemporary romance with heart, heat, and healing. You’re welcome to unsubscribe at any time if you decide I’m just not the author for you, and there’ll be absolutely no hard feelings.

Well, it’s mid-September, which means autumn officially starts in… let me math this up… 9 days! I’m excited. Autumn is my absolute favorite season. Warm days but evenings juuuuuust cool enough to sit by a bonfire, falling leaves in beautiful colors that crunch underfoot, pumpkin pumpkin PUMPKIN (seriously… I LOVE pumpkin…), and just the right window of light during the daytime hours. Plus, HELLOOOO???, Halloween! What’s not to love?!

It’s been roughly a month and a half since The Road Back Home was released, and I cannot believe the DMs and emails I’ve received from y’all with your reactions. I’m currently in that “post-book-release” slump that comes after I let one of my babies out into the world, so the lovely messages have been keeping me pushing on with writing. To celebrate, I’ve decided to offer any of my ebooks for free if you want it! Just reply to this email with the title of the book you’d like (or DM me on social media and let me know you’re a subscriber to my newsletter), and I’ll send you the download link.

Quasi-related: If you’d like to find my books on sites other than the ’Zon, you can find me at:

On the writing front: I’m currently taking a (very small) break from writing novels to work on a few winter-themed novellas/short stories (and even a freebie bonus scene for Max and Clay because I should’ve known I wasn’t finished with them! I love them too much). I’m hoping to get one of these novellas into an anthology—I say ‘hopefully’ because I applied and am waiting for a response and, well, we all know my brain. It’s kinda fickle.

While I’ve still got you, I just want to say thank you. So very much. Your support has meant everything to me since I started this journey. I genuinely can’t imagine where I’d be without you.

Anyway. I honestly can’t think of any other updates right now, so I’ll end this here so I can take Middlest to her hair appointment! We’re going purple!


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From Stardust by Meagan Kaye

A lost heritage, A 300-year old curse, A life changed forever.

Sweet Dreams, Lover Boy by Hazel Winters

They were high school sweethearts...

...now they are reconnecting after over ten years apart.

Sweet Dreams, Lover boy is the first in the Lovers of Brantley series. All books are stand-alone and don't require to be read in order.

Off-Limits Mr. Knight by Nora Palmer

Redesigning my world was never part of the plan...

Our hearts are at stake, and with each step forward, the risk grows...

Will we sacrifice our kingdoms for the love that's brought us back to life?

Brookings Forever by Aleesha Brown

I thought I had it all figured out in high school.

I planned to spend the remainder of the summer in peace but unfortunately, May has other ideas – she wants me to get the full high school experience. Whatever that means. Since she’s the only friend I got, I guess I have to go along with her.

There’s nothing worse than being surrounded by high school stereotypes. Or at least, it seemed that way until I met HIM.

Off-Limits Operations by Daisy Grace

Step into a world of high-stakes investigations, deadly betrayals, and undeniable chemistry with this electrifying romantic suspense collection! Featuring six stand-alone, full-length novels, Off-Limits Operations delivers bold detectives, fearless heroines, and twists that strike like lightning.

From enemies-to-lovers heat to second-chance tension, each case blurs the line between justice and desire. Secrets run deep, the danger runs deeper—and love? That might just be the riskiest mission of all.

Shattered Dreams by Linzvonc

BETRAYAL. HEARTBREAK. DEVASTATION.

He had a wife who loved him. A daughter who adored him. So why the betrayal? Wasn’t I enough?

Shattered Dreams is a raw, emotional marriage-in-crisis romance about lies, redemption, and the wreckage left behind when love is tested to its limits.

Influencing the Mountain Man by Eve Adams

She needs to save the resort. He needs to protect his mountain community. But when the Marketing Expert from Texas and her Mountain Man boss end up locked down by a blizzard, professional boundaries melt faster than Colorado snow.

Influencing the Mountain Man is a steamy, age-gap, forced proximity romance featuring a protective mountain man, a curvy city girl out of her element, and a snowed-in love story with a small-town happily ever after!


Music Corner

This month’s Music Corner is What I Am (acoustic) by Crown the Empire


Finley K. James writes
contemporary romance that
has both heart and heat.
Past Newsletters


Scars & Souvenirs
Dreams Reborn
Long Time Gone
Love Notes
The Road Back Home


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Finley K. James

I'm an 80-year-old woman in the body of a not-so-80-years-old woman. I write stories that bring heart and heat to the pages. My newsletter covers updates about my life, my writing, and book and song recommendations.

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