Jessica Scott is an American author of contemporary military romance, supernatural suspense, and nonfiction about soldiers returning from the

Iraq War The Iraq War (), also referred to as the Second Gulf War, was a prolonged conflict in Iraq lasting from 2003 to 2011. It began with 2003 invasion of Iraq, the invasion by a Multi-National Force – Iraq, United States-led coalition, which ...

and

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Biography

Education

She holds a PhD in Sociology from Duke University.

Military career

Scott was a former Sergeant First Class before she commissioned at Officer Candidate School at

Fort Benning Fort Benning (named Fort Moore from 2023–2025) is a United States Army post in the Columbus, Georgia area. Located on Georgia's border with Alabama, Fort Benning supports more than 120,000 active-duty military, family members, reserve compone ...

Literary career

Scott is the author of the Homefront series and the Falling series, both about soldiers and veterans adjusting to life after returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Her bestselling Falling series features soldiers integrating into life on college campuses. She has also written for the ''

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'' "At War" blog,

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'' POV'', and

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. Her debut novel ''Because of You'' launched the return of

Random House Random House is an imprint and publishing group of Penguin Random House. Founded in 1927 by businessmen Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer as an imprint of Modern Library, it quickly overtook Modern Library as the parent imprint. Over the foll ...

's "Loveswept" digital imprint. She was featured as one of ''

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''s Americans of the Year for 2012.

Bibliography

Coming Home series

* ''Because of You'' (2011) * ''Anything for You'' (2011) * ''Until There Was You'' - Loveswept (2012) * ''I'll Be Home for Christmas'' (2013) * ''Back to You'' - Grand Central Forever (2014) * ''All for You'' - Grand Central Forever (2014) * ''It's Always Been You'' - Grand Central Forever (2014)

Homefront series

* ''Come Home to Me'' (2014) * ''Homefront'' (2015) * ''After the War'' (2015) * ''Into the Fire'' (Previously ''Forged in Fire'') (2015)

Falling series

* ''Before I Fall'' (2015) * ''Break My Fall'' (2016) * ''After I Fall'' (2017) * ''Until I Fall'' (2018)

Supernatural suspense

*''The Long Night'' (2016)

Nonfiction

*''The Long Way Home: One Mom's Journey Home from War'' (2013) *''To Iraq & Back: On War and Writing'' (2014)

References

External links

Official Website

Goodreads Author's Page
{{DEFAULTSORT:Scott, Jessica Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American romantic fiction novelists American women romantic fiction writers Duke University alumni