Hi! I’m Jenna Harte!

I’m the author of over a dozen romance and mystery novels, two author organizers, and an author marketing planner. I’m also the managing editor of Tender & Tempting Tales, a romance anthology and zine. I own and manage Write with Harte, an online resource for romance writers.

What do you like to read?

🩷If you enjoy romantic mystery with a bit of spice, check out the Valentine Mysteries. Jack and Tess are a passionate couple who stumble over dead bodies by day and into bed at night. “Deadly Valentine,” the first book in the series, reached the quarter-finals in Amazon’s Breakthrough Novel Award in 2013.

🩷Like steamy southern small town contemporary romance? Take a look at the Southern Heat series. Each story has a lot of heart and hope, plus some spice. You’ll find all your favorite tropes: grumpy-sunshine, enemies-to-lovers, billionaire, second chance, marriage of convenience, and more.

🩷Prefer cozy mysteries? (no spice) Check out the Sophie Parker Coupon Mystery series, starting with book one, Death of a Debtor.

More About Jenna

I have a bundle of stories filled with romance, mystery, and even time travel rattling around in my head and am eager for the day when a device is created that will allow me to download what’s in my brain onto my computer. All of a sudden, that seems like it could become a possibility!

I’m passionate about chocolate, strong, dark coffee, and Disney. My dream is to live on a beach with a large lanai, a banana, coconut, and mango tree where I can write and never be cold.

When I’m not telling stories, I work by day as a romance ghostwriter, blogger, and managing editor for Tender & Tempting Tales. I’m an empty-nester living in central Virginia with my husband.

Here are some interesting (or maybe not so interesting) factoids about me:

1. Writing always terrified me, so I’m baffled as to how I got here.

2. I first started writing fiction in sixth grade by writing about characters on my favorite television show (the term fan fiction hadn’t been invented yet. Neither had the Internet.)

3. My favorite fiction involves mystery and romance.

4. My favorite authors are J.D. Robb, Janet Evanovich, Sandra Brown, and Carl Hiaasen. I also love Jane Austen, but tend to stay away from literature unless I know it will end well.

5. Currently, I’ve finished seven books and a two novellas in the Valentine Mysteries, and am plotting book eight, lovingly referred to as “dead guy in a rowboat.”

6. Both the Valentine and Delecoeur Mysteries pay homage to one of my favorite movies, The Thin Man, and to Nick and Nora Charles’ more modern-day (if the 1980s can be considered modern-day) counterparts, Jonathan and Jennifer Hart.

7. I have another series idea rattling around in my head that pays tribute to another favorite old movie, Topper.

8. I’m not as old as my love of old movies would suggest. I am as old as my love of Hart to Hart suggests.

9. Like my character Tess, I love good chocolate and old R&B tunes. I’m still working on getting some Carine Gilson underwear to see if I’d love them as much as Tess does. A set can cost several hundred dollars, so I have to wait until more books sell.

10. I’ve recently started a new pen name to write a Southern Gothic paranormal urban fantasy romance series set in New Orleans, my spirit city.

Please stop by my author page at Amazon.com to learn more and check out currently published works.

And don’t forget to connect with me on Instagram.

Finally… want to keep up with me to hear about upcoming releases, beta-reading opportunities, and more? Please sign up for my email list and receive a free copy of Back to Us, a Southern Heat prequel romance story.