T a K I N G.......... L a N E S B O R O (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781514459379)

Melody resides in beautiful Northern Minnesota with her teenage daughter and her three Pomchis. She earned her BA and MA from the College of St. Scholastica and is currently writing Taking Lanesboro II, with more fun to read true life stories about growing up in Lanesboro before it became one of the most popular and most talked about small towns in America. Melody has lived a diversified life and experienced many cultures. She spent the first part of her childhood growing up on the shores of Long Island, New York with her large family, dogs, cats and monkeys. At the age of thirteen she and her family moved to Lanesboro, Minnesota where she learned to appreciate the small town comradery and the beauty of the Midwestern part of the United States. Melody also lived on the California coast for several years and overseas for seven years. She has had the opportunity to experience multi-national cultures which helped to enrich her appreciation for her life-long friends and her home town of Lanesboro. Melody is a ten year veteran with the Army Nurse Corp and the Army Medical Corp and was a devoted army wife for another thirteen years. She is working on a novel called Conspiracy of Silence which it is about her enlistment as a female soldier trapped in the Army's circle of sexual misconduct and abuse. In this novel Melody divulges what the long term effects of MST (Military Sexual Trauma) has had on her life and allows her readers to walk with her through the agonizing treatments of intense group and individual therapy, hoping to help raise awareness. In her novel she reveals the truth about the ongoing conspiracy and cover-up of entrapment and molestation in the armed forces, how these predators compromise national security and breakdown core values, and the United States military echelon's dirty secrets of tirelessly sweeping this issue under the rug for decades, and the reasons behind it.