ย Melissa was born and raised in Arizona, sheโs spent her entire life living across the southern half of the state. Sheโs found that, along with her husband and three children, she prefers the small towns and rural life to feeling packed into a city. She started reading at a very young age, and her love for series started early, as the first real books she remembers reading is the Boxcar Children series by Gertrude Chandler Warner. Through the years sheโs found that thereโs little she wonโt read, and her tastes vary from westerns, to romance, to sci-fi / fantasy and Horror.