Cindee Bartholomew, the woman behind the pen name Jessika Klide, lives in LA —Lower Alabama where writing erotic romance in 2014 deep in the Bible Belt made anonymity important. Rebounding off Fifty Shades phenomenAL success, her debut series, Siri’s Saga, has reached the #4 ranking in the entire Kindle store and she discovered with success came acceptance.

Cindee married her high school sweetheart in 1981, who went on to become a Warrant Officer for the US Army and flew UH1 Huey helicopters. Stationed in Germany, they traveled to italy where they fell in love with the history. Then returned to Alabama.

in 2014, after suffering a Multiple Sclerous attack which threaten her mobility, she chased her childhood dream of writing and publishing.

As a former military spouse, The Depth of her characters reflect the strength, decisiveness, and determination of military men. While her female characters are headstrong, independent, and brimming with sass.

Cindee’s firm belief in love at first sight and soulmates is often a theme in her work as her personal experience proved true. she strives to bring her readers the perfect blend of heat, heart, and happy endings in every book.

upon her debut success of Siri’s saga, Cindee published an alternate plot version of Siri and Aurei’s love story, now titled Deceit and Truth, under her real name, because her mother wanted to read her writing, just not the erotic version. While this alternate storyline, which Also received bestseller banners, has plenty of steamy romantic prose, it lacks the erotic shock and awe, for example, of The Cocktail Party. Click HERE to check them out.

Stepping outside the contemporary romance genre, Cindee also writes military, mission-oriented, steamy, romantic suspense thrillers as Stingray23, a pen name picked by her husband. Click out her no love left behind: Target Series HERE.