Palessa is the author of the Baxter Family Saga series, Sacked & Tackled as well as Eyubea Girls, a historical fiction story that is currently fully available on Wattpad. Unchained Hearts, book 1 in the Baxter series, was published by Beau Coup Publishing in 2013. It's a plot twisted roller coaster story that gives readers a first look at the troubling legacy of the Baxters. Under the BC banner, she published two more Baxter books, the first two books of Sacked & Tackled as well as Eyubea Girls, totalling six books.

When BC closed its doors permanently in 2016, Palessa became a fully independent, self-published author. 

Palessa will be publishing the next book in the Baxter Family Saga series in Fall/Winter 2018 as well as other stories to come. She currently lives in the mountains of western Jamaica, on a farm with cracker-munching mutts, a couple of cats, chickens, pigs and lots of greenery!