Adult Contemporary Romance · Sharp Banter · Emotional Intimacy
Love stories for people old enough to know better.
Tessa Loren writes contemporary romance about smart, capable adults with full lives, complicated histories, and one particular person who makes all that hard-earned competence considerably less useful. Tessa Loren is the contemporary-romance pen name of T. L. Johnson; meet all three author identities here. Her stories pair sharp dialogue and grown-up chemistry with friendship, work, desire, and the intimate negotiations that begin when attraction becomes something neither person can neatly contain.
Contact: tessaloren@midnighthavenbooks.com
The Tessa Loren promise
Smart people. Bad ideas. Excellent chemistry.
These are love stories about people who already have lives before romance complicates them. They care about their work. Their friendships have history. Their habits existed before chapter one. Attraction collides with the rest of adulthood rather than replacing it—and occasionally leaves otherwise reasonable people making decisions they will absolutely have to discuss later.
The Tessa Loren books
Chemistry has consequences.
Contemporary romance with grown-up lives, complicated timing, sharp dialogue, and feelings that refuse to remain hypothetical.
Friends-to-Lovers · Adult Contemporary Romance
We Should Probably Stop Doing This
Seven years of friendship. One kiss in an empty movie theater. Eight increasingly useless rules.
Elena and Declan were very good at being friends. Then one spectacularly inconvenient kiss turns a seven-year friendship into something neither of them can quite put back where it belongs. What begins with rules, boundaries, and the mutual understanding that this definitely should not become a thing grows considerably harder to explain once knowing each other this well becomes the very reason stopping feels impossible.
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Fake Dating · Workplace Rivals · One Bed · Open Door
Plus One, Apparently
Two professional rivals. One Director role. Two family events. One extremely manageable fake relationship. Apparently.
Audrina Delaney and Graham Mercer have spent four and a half years learning exactly how to challenge each other. Then Audrina invents a boyfriend to survive her brother’s wedding weekend—and Graham, hearing his own name, decides the lie could solve a family problem of his too. The arrangement comes with clear terms, competing ambition, a destination wedding, and one bed. The trouble is that pretending to know each other is considerably less convincing when they already do.
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Friends-to-Lovers · Across-the-Hall Proximity · Adult Contemporary Romance
Since You’re Here
They’ve known each other for years. Living across the hall makes familiarity considerably more dangerous.
Audrey and Theo already know each other’s habits, histories, and tells. What changes is the distance between them. Shared dinners, borrowed chargers, work stories, questionable socks, and a long-delayed attraction turn ordinary proximity into something neither can dismiss. Their romance is about wanting someone in your life without disappearing into theirs—and choosing the same place to come home to because both of you actually mean it.
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