Melanie A. Smith
author : Melanie A. SmithMelanie A. Smith is the best-selling author of The Safeguarded Heart Series and 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.\n\nA voracious reader and lifelong writer, Melanie’s writing began at a young age with short stories and poetry. Having completed a bachelor of science in electrical engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a master’s in business administration at the University of Washington, her writing abilities were mainly utilized for technical documents as a lead engineer for the Boeing Company, where she worked for ten years. \n\nAfter shifting careers to domestic engineering and property management in 2015, she eventually found a balance where she was able to return to writing fiction.\n\nMelanie is also a Mensan and enjoys spending time with her family, cooking, and driving with the windows down and the stereo cranked up loud. View more >>Melanie A. Smith Book Series