Claudette Melanson lives in Guelph, Ontario, with her husband Ron and four bun babies: Tegan, Pepper, Butters & Beckett. She graduated from Indiana University of Pennsylvania with a BA in English and an MA in Literature. Vampires have been a passion since age five. She hopes to one day work full time as an author, since there are many, many books living inside her head.In her spare time she enjoys watching Japanese Anime and reading vampire stories....along with other great fiction. She is also very interested in good health and is an advocate of Ketogenic eating, using whole and natural foods. Future dreams include writing many more books, spending more time with her son Jacob and Sister Susie. She hopes to take them and her nieces Maggie, Sadie and Sophie to Disneyworld with the proceeds from the first novel. A Rabbit Rescue fanatic, she also hopes to help rescues all over the world save many innocent lives.

Rising Tide is her first novel. Please see synopsis below:

Isolated and sheltered by her lonely, overprotective mother, Maura has always lived the life of an outcast in their small hometown of Indiana, Pennsylvania. There is something about Maura that seems to drive her classmates away, but is it more than her extreme pallour and disease-like aversion to sunlight? Growing up without ever knowing her father has made life painful and confusing for Maura, especially since her mother seems unable...or unwilling...to disclose many details about him. But life is about to become even more bewildering when her mother's abrupt decision to move a country away sets off a chain of events that will change Maura forever. A cruel prank turned deadly, the discovery of love and friendship....and its loss, as well as a web of her own mother's lies, become obstacles in Maura's desperate search for a truth she was never prepared to uncover.