Life is for Living in the Earth and Sky Series is Book 2, following Love in the Forest, and preceding Lost in Your Rhythm, by Janina Grey. All three books (available at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Soul Mate Publishing, focus on the lives of staff members at Earth and Sky, a healing retreat in the Adirondack Mountains in Upstate New York. The neat paranormal twist is that the many of the people live Pagan lifestyles and consider themselves witches. By day, their lives are filled with job stresses, relationship woes, life trauma, and family dysfunction many people can relate to at some point. But after hours, they show us glimpses at what life is really like for modern day practitioners. While there isn’t any sparks flying from their fingertips or pacts with demons, they do communicate with the dead, use Tarot, follow the Wheel of the Year, and devote their lives to Goddess.

Janina welcome to Romance Lives Forever. I’m Kayelle Allen, author and owner of this blog. Happy to have you here! Please tell us about your series.

Earth and Sky Series by Janina Grey

Genre Contemporary Romance, Paranormal
Book heat level (based on movie ratings): R

Single mom Jayde MacMillan does not need the headache of another man in her life, as she devotes her every breath for caring for her two toddler twins, and working full time to give them a stable and happy home.

Daniel Cameron is a free-spirited lover of all things beautiful—including women. He’s perfectly content with drumming around a fire and winding his way barefoot through the forests of upstate New York.

Neither expected to see each other again after a wild and passionate night of lovemaking at a local spring festival. A chance encounter and two precocious toddlers four years later says Fate has other plans for Jayde and Dan.

Some one-night stands are meant to last forever.

Which book is this in the series?

Life is for Living is Book 2 of the Earth and Sky series.

How many books do you plan for the series?

I planned on stopping at three books, but suddenly a mysterious cowboy named Brose Morgan joined the brand new Earth and Sky Equine therapy team. He and I are still getting to know one another. At this point I’ve only planned three, but who knows what the future holds?

How many books are completed?

My third book, Lost In Your Rhythm, is set to be released on May 17, 2023. So all three books are finished!

What characters are the main stars in your series?

In Love In The Forest, Book1, Brooke Meadows, the camp photographer for Earth and Sky Retreats meets Joshua Quinn, struggling to come to terms with the death of his wife and daughters a few years earlier. A photographer by day and witch by night, Brooke is affectionately known as a death walker, and soon learns Joshua’s dead wife is trying to set them up.

In Book 2, Life Is For Living, Barefoot Dan, the lovable Pagan drummer sworn to bachelorhood we meet in Book 1, discovers the one night stand who broke his heart at a Beltaine, May Day festival four years earlier, is the mother of his children. Can he win Jayde’s trust? Does he even want to?

Jayde would be just fine without Dan, and does everything in her power to keep him out of her life.

In Lost In Your Rhythm, Book 3, Liza Purkypile, the new Earth and Sky camp photographer and recent cancer survivor is determined to find her independence and success in Demilune, where her new job is located. Jack Issa, a local music shop owner who has escaped his past and taking a time out from life to heal mentally, emotionally, and physically, meets Liza and decides this is the woman he wants to grow old with. Not knowing how much time she has left, Liza realizes cancer was an easy battle compared to the war waging within her heart.

What is the overall theme in this series?

The overall theme of the series is to show how Paganism is real, and witches do not shoot fire from their fingertips, have drug-induced orgies, or make pacts with the devil. They live, work, and play like everyone else as they search for their very own happily ever after.

Please list the series titles below, in any order you prefer.

Lost In Your Rhythm, Book 3, release date May 17.
Life Is For Living, Book 2, And,
Love In The Forest, Book 1.

What did you like best about writing this series?

I loved how the characters told their stories through me. It was as if they were dictating and all I had to do was make sure I got it right. They became a part of my life for the last three years, kept me company through the pandemic, and even helped me face a few of my own inner demons.

What other books (not in this series, have you written?)

I’ve written and published one other book with Soul Mate Publishing, Ten Bucks And A Wish, which was my first ever romance published. That takes place on Long Island, NY and is totally different from the Earth and Sky Series. No witches.

Where can we find links for all your books?

Website https://www.janinagrey.com
Amazon Author Page https://amazon.com/author/janinagrey

Where to buy Life Is For Living

Publisher www.soulmatepublishing.com
Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Life-Living-Earth-Sky-Book-ebook/dp/B09WNG7J7F
Barnes and Noble https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/life-is-for-living-janina-grey/1141939531
Universal Buy Link https://books2read.com/u/bMzPp5

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Janina Grey has been writing since she could hold a crayon, and there has been no stopping her since. Journaling, short stories, poetry, newsletters, news, feature, columns, Op/Eds, and press releases have kept her busy her whole life. But it was the sweet Harlequin romances she read in her downtime that stayed forever in her heart and gave her the inspiration to write her own contemporary romances now published with Soul Mate Publishing.
By day, Janina guides domestic and sexual assault survivors down their path of healing and empowerment. But in the wee hours of the morning, she hunkers down at her childhood writing desk with Imagine Dragons, Coldplay, Elton John, Fleetwood Mac, or Led Zep streaming through her earbuds while she brings to life her characters as they face their real-life sorrows and successes, and best of all, their happily-ever-afters.
Growing up on Long Island and living periodically in Tennessee as a youth has given her the opportunity to meet many different types of people and experience many different lifestyles. After moving from Long Island to settle in the Mohawk Valley in Upstate New York with her family, she found the support needed to pursue her writing endeavors with Central New York Romance Writers and Romance Writers of America.
When Janina is not writing, she may be marching for women’s rights, kayaking, camping, drumming, or dancing around the fire.
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