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Melissa de la Cruz

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Young Adult, Paranormal Fiction, Fantasy

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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 Chron ...more

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Average rating: 3.78 · 794,309 ratings · 52,758 reviews · 187 distinct works • Similar authors

	Blue Bloods (Blue Bloods, #1) 3.70 avg rating — 143,851 ratings — published 2006 — 62 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Masquerade (Blue Bloods, #2) 3.91 avg rating — 92,216 ratings — published 2007 — 67 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Revelations (Blue Bloods, #3) 3.90 avg rating — 79,205 ratings — published 2008 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Van Alen Legacy (Blue Bloods, #4) 3.95 avg rating — 67,428 ratings — published 2009 — 51 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Misguided Angel (Blue Bloods, #5) 3.93 avg rating — 39,980 ratings — published 2010 — 43 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lost in Time (Blue Bloods, #6) 4.04 avg rating — 28,028 ratings — published 2011 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Isle of the Lost (Descendants, #1) 3.80 avg rating — 27,798 ratings — published 2015 — 57 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bloody Valentine (Blue Bloods, #5.5) 3.97 avg rating — 23,298 ratings — published 2010 — 32 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Alex and Eliza (Alex & Eliza, #1) 3.69 avg rating — 21,483 ratings — published 2017 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Witches of East End (The Beauchamp Family, #1) 3.53 avg rating — 21,946 ratings — published 2011 — 37 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Blue Bloods (9 books)
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“Black is the color of night. White is the true color of death”
― Melissa de la Cruz, Blue Bloods

tags: colors, symbolism

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“You cannot be with someone just because you don’t want to hurt him. You have your own happiness to think about.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, The Van Alen Legacy

tags: happiness, happy, heartbreak, hurt, love, self

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“we laughed until we had to cry, we loved until we said goodbye.”
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First Grave on the Right by Darynda Jones

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Pride and Prejudice and Mistletoe by Melissa de la Cruz

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Hexbreaker by Jordan L. Hawk

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message 1: by Deborah

Apr 26, 2014 10:46AM

was wondering if you are going to continue the series for "The Ring and the Crown"? Iniside the book it says it is a series but here on your site it says 1 book?

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