Melody Gatto

USA Today Bestselling Author, Melody Heck Gatto was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where she lives with her husband, son, dog, and two cats. The whole family is avid Pittsburgh Penguins fans and like going to hockey games when they get the chance. Melody enjoys taking her son to meet the players on game days. It's no secret that meeting the players is just as exciting for her as it is for her son, especially when it comes to her favorite player!Having met a handful of hockey players, she likes to adopt features of their personalities into her characters. And going to games and practices is where she gets her ideas for her fictional on-ice scenes.Melody is a Hallmark movie junkie. She adores the Christmas movies and all the cutesy (and sometimes cliché) romance and loves to get swept away in it all.