Melinda Leigh gave up her banking profession to raise her children and has never looked back. She began writing as a hobby and quickly developed an addiction to creating characters and stories. She has won numerous honors for her paranormal romance and romantic suspense novels since then. Her debut novel, She Can Run, was nominated for an International Thriller Award for Outstanding First Novel and sold over 100,000 copies in six months, making it the number one bestseller in both Kindle Romantic Suspense and Mystery/Thriller. Melinda is an active martial artist who possesses a second-degree black belt in Kenpo karate and teaches women's self-defense when she isn't writing. She shares a cluttered home with her husband, two teenagers, two rescue cats, and a couple of dogs.