Melissa de la Cruz was born in Manila, Philippines. In 1985, her family emigrated to the United States in San Francisco. There, the girl graduated from the Catholic school at the monastery of the Sacred Heart, then went to New York, where she studied at Columbia University, receiving a bachelor’s degree in English and art history. Melissa had been reading books since childhood, which was her favorite pastime. She especially liked the novels of Enid Blyton, Gordon Corman, Louise May Alcott, Stephen
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Melissa de la Cruz was born in Manila, Philippines. In 1985, her family emigrated to the United States in San Francisco. There, the girl graduated from the Catholic school at the monastery of the Sacred Heart, then went to New York, where she studied at Columbia University, receiving a bachelor’s degree in English and art history. Melissa had been reading books since childhood, which was her favorite pastime. She especially liked the novels of Enid Blyton, Gordon Corman, Louise May Alcott, Stephen King and other works in the genre of fantasy and science fiction.
After graduating, Melissa collaborated as a journalist and editor in publications devoted to fashion and beauty, including such publications as Cosmopolitan, Harper’s Bazaar, Marie Claire. This experience is reflected in her novels - not without reason she likes to describe in detail what her characters wear.
In 2001, her first novel Cat’s Meow was published and immediately attracts the attention of readers. Then a series of novels about the life of teenage schoolchildren is published - "Au Pair" (The Au Pairs), "Ashley" (The Ashleys).
She is the author of a series of novels “Blue Bloods”, which tells about the life of vampires in modern New York. The ancestors of the main character, Schuyler van Alen, were among the first immigrants to the United States. But their kind is not simple - they are real vampires with blue blood. The appearance of vampires in the United States is somehow connected with the mysterious story of the lost colony of Roanoke.
Schuyler attends a closed Duchenne school, where many students are found to be vampires. But the immortals also have problems. An inexplicable hunt for vampires begins - they lose their immortality and die one by one. To prevent their extermination, young Schuyler van Alen goes in search of her grandfather, the powerful vampire Teddy the Undying, the only one who can protect the entire vampire family. The series consists of five novels: “Masquerade”, “Revelations”, “The Legacy of the Van Alens”, “Keys to the Vault”, “The Cheated Angel”. /