Jessie Mattis

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Jessie Mattis is an award-winning author, Jesus-loving wife, and homeschooling mom of three teenagers. She crafts twentieth-century fiction inspired by family history, hoping to breathe new life into unique bits of America’s past. Jessie’s Middlefork Series hits shelves in July 2026 with the release of A MESS OF DREAMS, the first of her four-book historical romance series.

Road trips, laughter, and space heaters are some of her favorite things, and any day she doesn’t have to put on shoes is a good day. Jessie lives in Indiana with her incredible family and Guster the labradoodle, who naps in the most inconvenient places.

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Sneak Peek

Christmas from the Heart: A Collection of Christmas Romances

Experience the joy of Christmas through the eyes of women surprised by love. Can sparks fly on an ice rink? Can a woman jaded by love find it in the Rocky Mountains? Despite age, place, or past, each of these six novellas assures that love, hope, and redemption are possible because God first loved us.

  • Power Up

    If God spoke directly to you, would you listen? Would you still say God is good if tragedy came knocking on your door? Join Lexi on her journey of empowerment and Holy-Spirit-discovery. Sometimes the most important things unfold in unexpected ways.

  • Love on a Whim

    A chance encounter with a soldier as his train passes through leads to a pen-pal relationship in the midst of never-ending WWII. But when silence hits the mailbox and Yvonne’s first love returns to her doorstep, can she trust the path God has for her?