Marliss Melton is the author of the bestselling Team Twelve Navy SEALs series, the Taskforce series, and her two current series, The Warriors of York Trilogy (historical) and the Echo Platoon series (Navy SEALs). Wife of a retired Navy veteran, Melton relies on her experience as a military spouse and on her many contacts in the Spec Ops and Intelligence communities to pen realistic and heartfelt stories. Daughter of a foreign services officer, she grew up in various countries overseas before settling permanently in Williamsburg, Virginia. She has taught high-school Spanish, ESL, and Linguistics at the College of William and Mary, her alma mater. In addition to her writing, Melton busies herself raising a young daughter, keeping tabs on her five older children and walking her amazing dogs.