Melanie A. Smith
Melanie A. Smith is the best-selling author ofThe Safeguarded HeartSeriesand other contemporary romance fiction. Originally from upstate New York, she spent most of her childhood in the San Francisco Bay Area before moving to Los Angeles for college. After that, she spent almost fifteen years in the Seattle Area, and now lives in the Dallas-Fort Worth area of Texas with her family.A voracious reader and lifelong writer, Melanie’s writing began at a young age with short stories and poetry....