Bio

Despite her start as a journalist for a faith-based news publication two decades ago, Jessica Stone has always loved fiction. She believes that her testimony and message come most clearly through storytelling, and she loves the process of developing deep—and deeply flawed—characters who find redemption and learn to accept grace, just as she is herself.

Jessica and her husband reside in Raleigh, North Carolina, near her parents and other family. Her mother/daughter-centric stories—and her confidence to write them—are inspired by her own Gilmore Girls-esque relationship with her daughter, who is living out her dreams as a fashion designer in Paris.

Beauty in the Bittersweet is her debut novel and the first in her A Thornbush and Juniper Story four-book series. She is currently finishing the rest of that series while seeking a publishing home for a trio of romantic-comedies.