Tucson Festival of Books

JL Seegars (she/her)



Kadarius Seegars

J.L. Seegars is a romance author from the sticks of South Carolina who has been in love with love for as long as she can remember. Known to her readers as a smut peddler, and occasional heartbreaker, she takes pride in writing books like "Restore Me" that make people swoon, cry and swoon again. Her works center around Black women and the lovingly possessive men who are obsessed with them. Their stories, like their love, are full of passion and tinged with heartbreak, but she always delivers the coveted HEA (happily ever after).

Awards: USA Today Bestseller

Communities: African American


Scheduled events:
Smiling Through the Tears
Don't you just love a romance that gives you all the feels? In this session, three contemporary romance authors discuss the space of emotionally charged, serious romance, and how the genre has shifted with the increased focus on rom-coms.

Koffler Room 216 (Seats 89, Wheelchair accessible)  View this venue on the Festival map
Sat, Mar 14, 4:00 pm - 4:55 pm
Romance
Signing area: Sales & Signing Koffler/Commons (following presentation)

Panelists: Regina Black, Ali Rosen, JL Seegars
Moderator: Jocelynne Simone
Sponsors: Session made possible courtesy of Research Corporation for Science Advancement, Sundt Construction, Inc.
Don't Want You to Want Me
Forbidden love, amirite? Whether it's because of timing, personality, or circumstances, that crush you can't help can always leave us wary. These authors talk about putting their characters through the wringer, and how much fun it is to torture them.

Student Union Kachina (Seats 100)  View this venue on the Festival map
Sun, Mar 15, 1:00 pm - 1:55 pm
Romance
Signing area: UA Campus Store Book Sales (Mall) (following presentation)  View this venue on the Festival map

Panelists: Jonny Garza Villa, Ali Rosen, JL Seegars
Moderator: Bethany Demott
Sponsor: Session made possible courtesy of Bourn Companies
J.L. Seegars
Restore Me (Deluxe Edition): Restore Me is a forbidden enemies to lovers romance about love after loss. It is the first book in the New Haven series, interconnected standalones featuring second chances, fiery passion, and Black heroines who get their happily ever afters. Sloane Dominic Alexander is my late husband's best friend and the last man on Earth that I should want. He's arrogant, dismissive, and up until recently has only ever used those dark eyes of his to look right through me. For the last twelve years, he's taken a sick pleasure in making me feel paper thin, like my entire existence is of no consequence to him at all. But now, things are different. After one drunken night and a surprisingly sexy act of heroism, he's started to be...nice. Treating me like something other than the physical embodiment of his annoyance, which would be nice if it didn't make me feel all the things I swore to never feel for another man after my husband died. Dominic Sloane Kent is going to be my undoing. What's worse: I think I'm going to enjoy being unraveled by the gold flecks in her hazel eyes and the adorable little way she scrunches her nose up when we're arguing, which we've done a lot of over the past decade. She thinks it's because I hate her, and I've always let her think that because the alternative is...untenable. But something is changing between us, and I don't know how to stop myself from breaking every promise I've ever made to myself regarding my best friend's wife. Promises that include never telling her that there's a long list of things I feel about her, but hate isn't one of them.

Steamy Lit, Booth #114 (Seats 1)
Sun, Mar 15, 3:00 pm - 3:50 pm
Romance

Author: JL Seegars

Book:
Restore Me
Romance
Sourcebooks, Incorporated
January 2026
ISBN 9781464267437
576 pages
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