Briana Ortiz

Briana Ortiz is the whip-smart, independent ER doctor protagonist of Abby Jimenez's Yours Truly — a woman dealing with a difficult hospital administration decision that threatens her department, a pending divorce, and a family situation that gives her little time for her own feelings, who finds herself unexpectedly in written correspondence with Jacob Maddox, the doctor she thought was her enemy. Jimenez writes Briana with the energy of someone who is keeping more balls in the air than she can comfortably manage.

Jimenez's particular skill is writing protagonists who are simultaneously extremely competent and genuinely overwhelmed — Briana is excellent at her job, genuinely caring toward her patients and family, and almost completely unable to identify and act on her own emotional needs. The letter correspondence with Jacob gives her a space where she can be more honest than her daily life allows.

The ER setting gives Yours Truly the specific institutional and medical texture that makes Jimenez's contemporary romances feel grounded — the hospital politics, the patient care, and the specific culture of emergency medicine are all rendered with the research depth that distinguishes her work in the genre.

Begin with Yours Truly (2023).