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A native of the Texas panhandle, Wells is a licensed psychotherapist, business owner, musician and author of the critically-acclaimed Dylan Foster psychological thrillers. She attended Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, on a musical scholarship as a violinist. After graduating with a degree in English, she went on to obtain graduate degrees in counseling psychology from Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio and biblical studies from Dallas Theological Seminary in Dallas. She has taught at the graduate level of both universities. Since 1992, Wells has been in private practice as a counselor. She is the founder and director of LifeWorks Counseling Associates, a collaborative community of therapists, in Dallas and is a clinical member of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy. Growing up in a musical family where one's identity was determined by the art they portrayed, Wells was constantly surrounded by creativity. She began her literary career because she wanted to funnel this creativity and her everyday observations into a good book. She believes that the natural creative rhythm of music can be extended to the natural rhythm of the written word. Her own musical background and life experience as a psychologist has prolifically impacted her writing throughout the years. Her debut psychological thriller, "When the Day of Evil Comes," released in 2005 and sold more than 25,000 copies in the first six months. "The Soul Hunter," her subsequent book, followed in 2006. Her newest book, "My Soul to Keep," releases Feb. 5, 2008, from Multnomah Books, a division of Random House. Wells currently lives and writes in Dallas. |
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Books By Melanie
| My Soul to
Keep Click title to read excerpt or buy from CBD.com By Melanie Wells / Multnomah 
It's psychology professor Dylan Foster's favorite day of the academic year - graduation day- a day of pomp, circumstance and celebration. And after all the mortar boards are thrown, Dylan and some of her favorite friends will gather around a strawberry cake to celebrate Christine Zocci's sixth birthday. But the joyful summer afternoon goes south when a little boy is snatched from a neighborhood park, setting off a chain of events that seem to lead exactly nowhere. |
| The Soul Hunter, Day
of Evil Series #2 Click title to read excerpt or buy from CBD.com By Melanie Wells / Multnomah Publishers Inc. A bloody axe at Dylan's front door signals Peter Terry is back. He's haunting minds, invading dreams, wrecking lives, and leaving her desperate for answers. |
| When the Day of Evil
Comes, Day of Evil Series #1 Click title to read excerpt or buy from CBD.com By Melanie Wells / Multnomah Publishers Inc. Soon after a "coincidental" encounter with an eerie, sickly-looking stranger, Dylan Foster's crisply ordered world seems to become a battlefield invaded with disturbing, mysterious events. How does she separate spiritual from earthly, angel from devil---and friend from foe? Will she discover that she is in the eye of heavenly warfare---requiring God's armor? 350 pages, softcover from Multnomah. |
Christian Suspense
To Die For
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