Melissa Lenhardt writes mystery, historical fiction, and women s fiction. Her short fiction has appeared in Heater mystery magazine, the Western Online, and Christmas Nookies, a holiday romance anthology. Stillwater was a finalist for the 2014 Whidbey Writers MFA Alumni Emerging Writers Contest. She is a board member of the DFW Writers Workshop and vice president of the Sisters in Crime North Dallas chapter. Melissa lives in Dallas, Texas, with her husband and two sons.