Abby Jimenez is a New York Times bestselling author of six adult contemporary romance novels: The Friend Zone (2019), The Happy Ever After Playlist (2020), Life’s Too Short (2021), Part of Your World (2022), Yours Truly (2023), and Just for the Summer (2024). Jimenez is a Minnesota resident with a passion for baking. She founded her bakery, Nadia Cakes, in 2007 and it has since gone on to win several Food Network competitions.

Jimenez incorporates real-life psychological and familial issues into her novels, including narcissistic emotional abuse, physical and domestic violence, mental health, and parental neglect. Jimenez’s life experiences also inform aspects of her novels’ characters and plots. Her experience with chronic kidney disease serves as an inspiration for the character Benny in Yours Truly. Her passion for coffee and baking is apparent in the hobbies many of her characters share: in Just for the Summer, Emma professes a love for coffee while Justin boasts a talent for cooking. Jimenez attributes the funny banter between Kristen and Josh in The Friend Zone to actual conversations she’s had with her husband. Her own battles with anxiety helped inform her characterization of Jacob in Yours Truly.