Jes­si­ca Lepe is a for­mer social work­er turned web­site design­er who spends her days writ­ing, lis­ten­ing to mur­der pod­casts, and wran­gling knives out of her toddler’s hands (some­times all at the same time). She dis­cov­ered her love for read­ing after sneak­ing romance nov­els in her bible at her all-girls Catholic high school and in between the spines of her sid­dur at syn­a­gogue each Sat­ur­day and she hasn’t stopped read­ing romance since.

A proud and pas­sion­ate advo­cate for men­tal health, Jes­si­ca writes romances with com­plex and flawed char­ac­ters with mul­ti­cul­tur­al and reli­gious back­grounds that reflect the peo­ple she loves most in this world.