Melinda Leigh #1 Wall Street Journal and #1 Amazon Charts bestselling author Melinda Leigh is a fully recovered banker. A life-long lover of books, she started writing as a way to preserve her sanity while raising her kids. Over the next few years, she learned a few things about writing a book. The process was much more fun than analyzing financial statements, and she decided to turn her hobby into a career. Her debut novel, SHE CAN RUN, was nominated for Best First Novel by the International Thriller Writers. Since then, she has garnered numerous publisher awards, including two Silver Falchions and three Golden Leaf Awards. She is a two-time RITA® Award Finalist and has earned three Daphne du Maurier Award nominations. Melinda’s books have sold over 11 million copies. She holds a 2nd degree belt in Kenpo Karate. She’s dabbled in Arnis stick fighting, studied Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, and taught women’s self-defense.

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Kendra Elliot said she to learn about this novel writing world, she joined my local Romance Writers of America chapter and found a fabulous community dedicated to educating its members about improving one’s craft and how to tackle the tricky world of publishing. She also joined International Thriller Writers and the Kiss of Death Chapter of RWA. HIDDEN was the third manuscript she finished, but the first book purchased by a publisher. It came out in the summer of 2012 and since then has sold well over a half-million copies. She won the Daphne du Maurier award for romantic suspense in 2014, 2015, and 2016 and has hit the Wall Street Journal’s best seller list over a dozen times. She's been an International Thriller Writers’s finalist and a finalist for Romantic Times Magazine’s best Romantic Suspense. She has sold ten million books, and is working on her eighteenth novel. She's also written ten novellas and sold the TV rights for my Mercy Kilpatrick series.

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