Melissa is a first-time novelist, debuting a thriller nearly a decade in the making. A self-proclaimed rebel heart with a gypsy soul, Melissa has spent years chasing the thrill of great horror novels, mysteries, and ghost stories. After several small publications in her teens for poetry, Melissa spent her twenties writing little else than the tales of a misspent youth. In her thirties, she met the love of her life, who convinced her to finish the first page of a novel that she had started writing ten years before its publishing.