Melissa de la Cruz (www.melissa-delacruz.com) is the author of many best-selling novels, including the first four books in the Blue Bloods series: Blue Bloods, Masquerade, Revelations, and The Van Alen Legacy; Blue Bloods: Keys to the Repository; the Au Pairs series; the Ashleys series; and Angels on Sunset Boulevard. She lives in Los Angeles, California with her husband and daughter, and is hard at work on the next book in the Blue Bloods saga.