Melissa Lenhardt is a women’s fiction, mystery, and historical fiction author. Her debut mystery, STILLWATER, was a finalist for the 2014 Whidbey Writers’ MFA Alumni Emerging Writers Contest, and SAWBONES, her historical fiction debut, was hailed as a "thoroughly original, smart and satisfying hybrid, perhaps a new sub-genre: the feminist Western" by Lone Star Literary Life. The New York Times called her sixth novel, HERESY, “An all-out women-driven, queer, transgender, multiracial takeover of the Old West”. Her contemporary women’s fiction novels include THE SECRET OF YOU AND ME and RUN BABY RUN. She also writes romance under the pseudonym Laura Henry.

When Melissa isn’t writing, she’s thinking, “I really should be writing” and eating Nutella or peanut butter straight out of the jar. Melissa Lenhardt splits time between Europe and Texas, her lifelong home. 

https://www.melissalenhardt.net/

Represented by: Alice Speilburg