About the Author

Although Melinda has lived in Georgia and Texas, she's a California girl at heart. Her earliest memories are of life on an isolated 50-acre sheep ranch in rural Sonoma County, California. Picture rolling hills covered in brown grass, a eucalyptus forest, a long gravel driveway lined with plump sheep and no sidewalks. It was a big deal to drive into town on a one-lane road in a ramshackle, bubble-fendered pickup for an ice cream.

Flash forward to this century. Melinda lives in California's hot central valley with her husband - her basketball playing college sweetheart. With three kids the couple has done the soccer thing, the karate thing, the dance thing, the Little League thing and, of course, the basketball thing.

Melinda writes sweet to medium heat contemporary romances as Melinda Curtis and red hot reads as Mel Curtis. She loves writing romances about women who don't realize how strong they are until a hero comes along to show them, while capturing the wry humorous power struggle of falling in love - because, really, who lets the man have the last word?

Dandelion Wishes

October 1, 2013

Summer Kisses

February 1, 2014

Season of Change

May 1, 2014

One Perfect Year

March 1, 2015

Time for Love

August 1, 2015

A Memory Away

December 1, 2015

Kissed by the Country Doc

February 1, 2019

A Cowboy Thanksgiving

August 23, 2022

The Christmas Wish

November 26, 2019

Can't Hurry Love

March 31, 2020

Sealed with a Kiss

June 16, 2020

A Very Merry Match

September 29, 2020

Dream a Little Dream

February 23, 2021

Montana Welcome

August 1, 2020

Montana Wishes

September 1, 2020

Montana Dreams

October 6, 2020

Wyoming Christmas Reunion

November 29, 2022

Christmas at the Sleigh Cafe

October 25, 2022

A Cowboy Thanksgiving

August 23, 2022

Healing the Rancher

May 24, 2022

Something Blue

May 17, 2022

The Cowboy Meets His Match

February 22, 2022

A Cowgirl's Secret

September 28, 2021

Caught by the Cowboy Dad

June 29, 2021

Dream a Little Dream

February 23, 2021

The Littlest Cowgirls

February 1, 2021

Thankfully in Love

October 27, 2020

A Very Merry Match

September 29, 2020

Montana Welcome

August 1, 2020

Can't Hurry Love

March 31, 2020

The Christmas Wish

November 26, 2019

Kissed by the Country Doc

February 1, 2019

The Rancher's Redemption

October 1, 2018

All I Want For Christmas

November 1, 2016

A Heartwarming Holiday

October 11, 2016

Make Me a Match

February 1, 2016

A Memory Away

December 1, 2015

Time for Love

August 1, 2015

One Perfect Year

March 1, 2015

Christmas, Actually

November 1, 2014

Season of Change

May 1, 2014

Summer Kisses

February 1, 2014

Dandelion Wishes

October 1, 2013

Count On Love

October 9, 2007

The Best-Kept Secret

May 1, 2007

Once upon a Christmas

November 1, 2006

Back to Eden

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Expectant Father

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