Melissa de la Cruz is the New York Times and USA Today best-selling author of many critically acclaimed and award-winning novels for teens including The Au Pairs series, the Blue Bloods series, the Ashleys series, the Angels on Sunset Boulevard series and the semi-autobiographical novel Fresh off the Boat. Her books for adults include the novel Cat’s Meow, the anthology Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys and the tongue-in-chic handbooks How to Become Famous in Two Weeks or Less and The Fashionista Files: Adventures in Four-inch heels and Faux-Pas. She has worked as a fashion and beauty editor and has written for many publications including The New York Times, Marie Claire, Harper’s Bazaar, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, Allure, The San Francisco Chronicle, McSweeney’s, Teen Vogue, CosmoGirl! and Seventeen. She has also appeared as an expert on fashion, trends and fame for CNN, E! and FoxNews. Melissa grew up in Manila and moved to San Francisco with her family, where she graduated high school salutatorian from The Convent of the Sacred Heart. She majored in art history and English at Columbia University (and minored in nightclubs and shopping!). She now divides her time between New York and Los Angeles, where she lives in the Hollywood Hills with her husband and daughter.
Series
Books
The Van Alen Legacy
2009
21 Proms
2007
The Lily and the Cross
2017
Jealous?
2008
Cinder & Glass
2022
29 Dates
2018
Pride and Prejudice and Mistletoe
2017
Angels Lie
2009
Frozen
2013
Alex and Eliza
2017
Bloody Valentine
2010
Winds of Salem
2013
Eternally Yours
2022
The Five Stages of Courting Dalisay Ramos
2024
The Ring and the Crown
2014
Mistletoe
2006
Blue Bloods
After Death
2023
Never After
The Thirteenth Fairy
2020
The Isle of the Lost
2015
The Encanto's Curse
2025
Return to the Isle of the Lost
The Graphic Novel
2019
A Thousand Beginnings and Endings
2018
The Encanto's Daughter
2024
Birthday Vicious
2008
The Fashionista Files
Adventures in Four-Inch Heels and Faux Pas
2004
33 Unplayed Voicemails
2022
Gates of Paradise
2013
White Nights
A Vampires of Manhattan Novel
2016
Someone to Love
2018
The Beach Lane Collection
2013
Love & War
2018
The Eternal Kiss
Vampire Tales of Blood and Desire
2008
Wolf Pact, Part II
2012
Never After
The Broken Mirror
2022
Snow & Poison
2023
Triple Moon
2015
Fresh Off the Boat
2005
High School Musical
The Musical: The Series: The Road Trip
2021
Masquerade
2007
Never After
The Stolen Slippers
2022
Witches of East End
2011
Witches 101
A Witches of East End Primer
2011
Keys to the Repository
2010
The Queen's Secret
2021
Stolen
2014
Skinny-Dipping
2005
The Missing Sword
2023
All For One
2019
Isle of the Lost
The Graphic Novel
2018
Wolf Pact, Part III
2012
Cat's Meow
2001
Wolf Pact
2012
How to Become Famous in Two Weeks or Less
2003
Escape from the Isle of the Lost
2019
Fresh Ink
2018
The Au Pairs
2004
The Five-Year Hitch
2021
Double Eclipse
2016
Lip Gloss Jungle
2008
Rings of Fate
2025
Blue Bloods 3-Book Boxed Set
2009
The Headmaster's List
2023
Girl Stays in the Picture
2009
Snow in Love
2018
Vampires of Manhattan
The New Blue Bloods Coven
2014
When Stars Align
A Novel
2025
Serpent's Kiss
2012
The Birthday Girl
2019
The Queen's Assassin
2020
Crazy Hot
2007
The Ashleys
2007
Misguided Angel
2010
Rise of the Isle of the Lost
2017
Revelations
2008
Something in Between
2016
The End of the Story
2024
Doña Esmeralda, Who Ate Everything
2022
Diary of the White Witch
2012
Sun-Kissed
2006
666
The Number of the Beast
2007
The Super Secret Octagon Valley Society
2023
Wolf Pact, Part I
2012
Blue Bloods Novel Collection
2011
After Life
2022
Going Dark
2023
Blue Bloods
The Graphic Novel
2013
Lost in Time
2011
The League
2019
Beyond the Isle of the Lost
2024
Golden
2016
Angels on Sunset Boulevard
2007
Wolf Pact, Part IV
2012
Blue Bloods
2006
Return to the Isle of the Lost
2016
