
Deep fried Drop Dead Gorgeous meets Pretty Little Liars, PRETTY PERFECT is a southern comedy full of beauty pageant drama, laugh-out-loud shenanigans and enough whodunit to keep readers guessing.
In the picturesque town of Friendly, Tennessee, the Miss Friendly Pageant is a beloved institution. Girls dream about being crowned Miss Friendly as soon as they’re old enough to do the wave-and-cry.
Contestant June Bell understands what it takes to be a winner. She’s spent eighteen years perfecting her beauty walk, running interview questions and practicing her one-woman handbell solo. Expertly trained by her mother, who won the pageant as a teen, the family motto has been drilled into June since birth – you must be perfect in every way. But as more and more contestants are injured in strange and coincidental accidents, suspicions point to June and her inflated ambition. As the whole town turns against her, June finds solace in swoony, confident Casey, the cute bakery boy from the next town over.
With the pageant days away, tensions mount and friendships are tested. June must figure out who’s attacking the pageant or lose the crown she was born to win.
One tour. Two artists. A secret that could unravel it all.
The only thing Penny Lovejoy wants more than a shot at a music career is to escape her pop star sister’s larger-than-life persona. When she learns Nashville hitmakers Sparrow are searching for a tour opener, she auditions using a stage name – Mari Gold. She’s determined to get onto the tour with her talent, not her famous last name.
But Mari didn’t count on Kick Raines, the insanely hot guy she spent a recent party locked lip-to-lip with. When he shows up to the audition it throws Mari’s whole plan for a loop. Even worse? Sparrow decides to take them both on tour. As a duo.
On tour, Mari and Kick’s on-stage chemistry is undeniable, sparking online fan theories and hours long meet-and-greets after every show. Offstage, their will-they-won’t-they is as charged as it is complicated. Until Mari discovers a shocking backdoor deal that threatens to jeopardize it all – the tour, her budding career, and her chance at a future with Kick.
This laugh out loud, banter-fueled, make out-to-friends-to-lovers backstage peek at life on tour is the happily ever after every romance lover craves.
“Time allegedly heals all wounds, right? What about a wound inflicted by time itself? How am I supposed to heal from that?”
It’s the first day of senior year and Brolly J. Parker is running late. When a storm knocks the power out, she finds an old umbrella in her mom’s closet. But when she opens the umbrella, Brolly is thrown through time, landing on the shore of a lakeside French castle in the year 1826. With the umbrella lost and no way for her to get home, Brolly does her best to adjust to 19th century life, including spending time with the castle’s enigmatic Lord Westbourne. She desperately misses her family, her best friends and her budding relationship, but can’t deny her growing feelings for the confounding but kind Lord Westbourne. After opening her heart, and on the brink of starting a new life in a new time, Brolly finally finds the long missing umbrella. It’s then she’s faced with an impossible choice – stay with the person she loves or go back to her own time and a life without him.
A time travel coming of age packed with laugh out loud humor, unforgettable best friends, and big, swoony love.

High school is ending and Amelia cannot take one more second of people telling her to cherish every moment and be excited for the future when her future is anything but certain. Needing a change of scenery, Amelia hatches a plan to steal her best friend’s time traveling umbrella. She’s expecting the same adventure her best friend had – castles and gowns and falling in love with an enigmatic Lord. Instead, she lands in the dusty, unfriendly Wild West where she runs into trouble with a gang of outlaws, is harshly judged by the entire town and becomes entangled with a handsome cowboy. Forced into pioneer life, including a healthy dose of death around every corner, Amelia discovers she’s capable of more than she ever imagined.
A companion to The Black Umbrella, Amelia Goes West is a time travel coming of age packed with laugh out loud humor, breathtaking adventure and big, swoony love.


Featuring a mix of adult and young adult, JoAnna Illingworth’s books are character driven, fun, engaging reads. Her fast-paced storytelling, smart, funny characters, and swoony love interests keep readers hooked from start to finish.
JoAnna lives in Nashville’s suburbia with her husband and two boys.




