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Melissa Solera is one of the Grand Curators of the High Western Stacks of the Incorruptible Republic of the Immortal Library of the Grand Architect, located in the underworld beneath Paris. She is most likely married to to her co-Curator Jon Solera, although it is possible they are brother and sister.

When Agatha and Co. arrive at the Library's gates, the institution's official head, the Lord High Conservator, is away on a raid to "rescue" Tarvek from now-Baron Gil, and Melissa is thus the Acting Conservator of the Library. She and Jon (perhaps somewhat reluctantly) allow Agatha entrance, and assist her in extracting more information from the Notebook of Library founder Van Rijn, in exchange for the book being added to the Library's collection. Melissa also sends out another raid into the surrounding fiefdoms, revealing in the process that her normally pencil-filled hat can be used as a bullhorn.

She and Jon assign library employee Aldin to assist Agatha, and when the latter woman's quest leads her into the Library's trap-filled Corbettite vaults, they also assign him the duty of covertly recovering from that locale The Heart of the Muse, the activator for the Library-owned Muse of Vengeance.

With the help of Violetta, Malek, Varpa and Agatha's Wasp-Eater, she and Jon thwart an attempt by The King of the Silver Lands and the Geisterdamen to take over the Library.

When we last see Ms Solera following Agatha's return to the surface, she is in possession of the Heart, and awaiting the LHC's return, unaware that he is almost certainly dead at the hands of Grandmother's Smoke Knight infiltrators.