Bøker av Jessica Terry

Jazlyn Mackie and Rome Ellis were platonic best buddies...until they're snowed in together during a blizzard and end up keeping each other warm all night. After that, they're feeling anything but platonic about each other. All would be beautiful except for the fact that they were both in relationships, however imperfect, and only one of them is feeling the guilt over what they did. Then Rome's jilted girlfriend Nell hits Jazlyn with a strange request: 'give' Rome back to her for one month so she can prove her love for him. Who will Rome choose after the month is up? Will he decide his evolved feelings for Jazlyn are just a fluke and go back to Nell, or will he stay with the woman who took over his heart after one amazing night?

Kia Love was determined to enjoy her Christmas, despite having to work all day waiting tables. Never mind that she'd had a rather crappy Christmas Eve and eighteen months of bad luck before that; she tried to keep smiling, regardless.Disgruntled vet Jalil Dunn isn't exactly riding high on holiday spirit, and when he and Kia cross paths after many years of not seeing each other, he's nowhere near warm and fuzzy.Yet when he witnesses Kia have an uncharacteristic meltdown, he feels compelled to go check on her. They decide to ride out the rest of their subpar Christmases together and thanks to some forgotten mistletoe, maybe it won't suck so much after all. Content warning: brief mention of attack/death (off page).

'The main reason I'd agreed to marry Aurora - sex - was the very thing that was making me hate her.' Montrel Burns knew he'd made a mistake marrying Aurora. But he figured he'd made his bed and he was stuck in it. Especially since choosing Aurora cost him the love of his life, Claire. Aurora Chadwick loved Montrel…in her own way. Their marriage might not have been conventional but she wanted it to be. Yet every time she vowed to commit to being a 'real' wife to Montrel, her urges overcame her and she ended up right back where she started. Montrel had no idea he'd married a sex addict. And if that wasn't enough, he felt he was just wasting his life. Would he be able to get out and find direction before Aurora crushed his soul completely? Content warning: Sex addiction, adultery, depression, brief mentions of STDs and suicide contemplation, and miscarriage.

E.J. Bell is disciplined, successful, and extremely stubborn. No one likes getting on his bad side, but the one person he never thought he'd have to worry about breaking his trust was his wife, Natalia. Once their marriage hits the ten-year mark, though, he realizes how wrong he was. Natalia Bell is headstrong, blunt, and not scared of anything...except losing E.J. So when she has to admit that she had no intentions of giving him the child she made him wait ten years for, she fears that her marriage will be as good as over. Can they come back from this, especially once E.J. finds out that's not the only thing she's been keeping from him?

For most women, getting dumped on their birthday - and not for the first time - would be enough of a lesson. But for Claire Hutchinson, letting go of Montrel Burns is easier said than done, despite his pattern of dissing her, missing her, and then dissing her again. She tries to move on with the respectful and romantic good guy Warner, but there's something about Montrel that keeps sucking her back in... Montrel swears he's not a monster. He loves Claire and is sure they'll end up together eventually; he just needs time to be ready. But seeing Claire with anyone else in the meantime drives him crazy. Will Claire wise up and focus on Warner, or will she let Montrel waste her time one time too many?

Adele Mozley was used to the friend zone. Men liked hanging with her but when it came time to get romantic, she usually got the polite stiff-arm. But so what, right? She had a job she liked, a loyal BFF, an amazing son and slightly-curmudgeonly father, and Friday nights with Jamaican takeout and her remote. That's not so bad. Enter Kingston Ferrell, who is persistent, younger…and so hot it's almost intimidating. And he has eyes only for her. Adele didn't lack self-esteem, but she couldn't quite let herself believe that this hunk would be interested in a 40-something widow with a teenage son. So will she get out of her own way and let him love her? Or will she go back to spending her nights alone with forbidden dairy and regrets?

In this compilation of shorts from The Introvert Series: An Introverts Christmas: When Lola gets dumped right before Christmas, her friends make it their mission to cheer her up, to her chagrin. Wooing the Introvert:Cupid's bow strikes Lola at a Valentine's Day party, though not all of her friends are thrilled about it. The Introvert Roast:Lola meets her man's family for the first time on Thanksgiving, and the drama only increases when an unexpected guest shows up. I, Take Thee Introvert:Lola is over the moon when her man pops the question...but then she remembers they have to tell people about it.

Sahara is thrown for a major loop when her husband Kyle leaves her for her scheming cousin, Wanda. Inexperienced in the ways of dating, she doesn't know what to do with herself or how to get on with her life. When she finally begins to come out of her shell, she begins making up for lost time. Pretty soon, she becomes a little too carefree, and her child and business begin taking a backseat to her new social life. And her ex-husband becomes too consumed with who she's spending time with, to Wanda's dismay. After a while, Sahara has to be yanked back to reality and come to some realizations about herself. Maybe what she thought she wanted isn't necessarily what she needed...

Ava and Harper's honeymoon phase came to a screeching halt as soon as she met Mario. Ava battled with the guilt of fantasizing about one man while being married to another...even if the one she was married to increasingly felt like a stranger the more she learned about him. Mario knew Ava was taken, but that didn't stop him from wanting her. And when he and Ava keep getting thrown together, the sparks can't help but fly, despite their efforts to resist. Pretty soon Ava, Mario, and Harper are in a very weird, very uncomfortable love triangle that is a ticking time bomb waiting to explode. And when it does, the damage may be irreparable.

Ronnie thought she had it all together until her husband surprised her with a set of moving boxes and a request for divorce. With nowhere to go, no work experience, and almost nothing of her own, Ronnie is forced to move back in with her estranged father Pat, who she hadn't spoken to in years. Pat Duncan had problems of his own. His wife just up and left one day without a word, and he spent every day for the past twenty years waiting for her to come back. So when his daughter comes back and disrupts the life he had settled into, it only threatens to push them even further apart. While trying to navigate constant new changes, discoveries, and long-held secrets, this stubborn father and daughter have to learn each other all over again. Despite constantly butting heads, they have to accept that they need each other, like it or not...

Tonette liked her life as an elementary school teacher, though most usually considered it boring. Deciding that her vacation to Barbados would be her chance to step outside of herself and let loose, free-spirited 'Toni' was born.She figured it was harmless to adopt a new vacation persona. Fun and adventure were the only things on her agenda, after all. But she didn't count on falling for sexy islander Troy. Or worse, him falling for her alter ego.Once her vacation was over, though, she never expected to see Troy again. But when he shows up at her door in Atlanta, she pretends to be Toni's twin, kicking off a new wave of lies and deception.Things begin to unravel as Tonette falls deeper into her charade. And if she doesn't fix things, she could lose Troy and everything she didn't even realize she wanted for good.

Sylvia always hated her average looks and her strict mother. She just wanted to enjoy her teenage years and hang with her friends, and did what she had to do to get boys' attention. The only thing she liked about high school was getting to see her crush, Dub, the twin brother of not-so-nice Deuce. When her sneaking out and defying her mother's rules results in her winding up pregnant at fifteen, she learns who her real friends are. And with her mother never missing a chance to remind her how she's messed up her life, Sylvia vows that she would be the total opposite of her mother, and her child will grow up to the best friend she apparently didn't have. But years later, when her daughter Candy is fifteen and has no interest in being her friend, Sylvia just tries harder to force the kind of mother-daughter relationship she always wished she'd had herself. She ignores the constant advice that she needs to be her children's mother, not their friend. Candy is turning out to be just like Sylvia was, and when Sylvia's son Valencio starts behaving less like her golden child and more like another problem child, Sylvia slowly starts to realize that she had gone about everything all wrong. All the while, Sylvia still has her crush on Dub, is still being mistreated by Deuce, ignores her son's father Bryce, and battles the growing realization that she just hasn't done much with her life, and her daughter is following right in her footsteps. But when she tries to start laying down the law, things only get worse, and Sylvia realizes she really does need to make some major changes with herself. But is it too late?**CW: This book contains scenes of attempted kidnapping, drugs, and teenage sex.

"How I met Cam - the love of my life, whether he knew it or not - could either be considered really cute or really embarassing." Ever since Cam came to Nyla's rescue, they've been best buds. Only thing is, Nyla keeps having various fantasies about her buddy that are anything but platonic. When Cam starts dating her new roommate, Nyla starts to wonder if she should even continue the friendship, since seeing (and hearing) him with someone else is just too hard. She wants him to see her as a woman, not just the friend he feels obligated to protect. But severing ties with Cam is way easier said than done. And there is a chance that she's wrong about how he sees her. Will Nyla keep chickening out, or will she finally go for what she wants?

Desiree Mashburn did her dirt without thinking karma would eventually come calling. But screwing over her best friend to win a man's affections was apparently the final straw.Her life begins going from sweet to sour fast, and worst of all, she's lost the best friend she knows she'll ever have in Lovey Tate. Desiree aches to reconcile, but winning Lovey's trust back might be too tall of an order.Lovey finally has everything she's wanted in life, including Roland, the man she and Desiree battled over. But she has her own issues, and can't help but question Desiree's motives. She misses her friend, but doesn't want to be a fool again.But when a painful part of Desiree's past resurfaces, she knows she needs Lovey more than ever. Can she win her trust back, or is it too little too late?

High school sweethearts Ike and Anika Mayhew have hit a rough patch in their 12-year marriage, and neither knows what to do to alleviate the growing tension between them. Then, Ike makes a suggestion to shake things up that Anika initially scoffs at, but finds herself more and more intrigued by...Chrisette and Dorian Clarke were more than shocked when Ike asks them for this huge favor. Chrisette sees it as a way to break out of her good-girl persona, and Dorian only agrees because his wife does. The friends agree to one night together, with no inhibitions and no regrets.But everything changes when both women wind up pregnant. The pregnancies bring one couple closer but drives the other apart, and they all fight for their friendships, their marriages, and their privacy. Many truths are revealed and each of them is tested as they prepare for the births. One couple won't be able to come back from it...

After her devastating break-up with Davion, Natasha thought she had found everything she needed in Sharif. But when Davion shows up to her wedding and proves he's not quite out of the picture yet, Natasha is torn between her past and her present, not being willing to let go of either. When things come to a head, Natasha has to make a decision, or have it made for her...