Arlene Martha Melton was born on May 3, 1978 to Moira and Daniel Melton in Macon, Georgia. Arlene was the only girl of three children and both her parents doted on her. Even her brothers, Matt and Donovan, adored her and protected her against any and all perceived enemies. Some people in their old neighborhood used to say that Arlene's feet never touched the ground until she was fifteen.

It was when Arlene was fifteen that she discovered boys and they discovered her. She always had a special intuition that her beauty was her biggest blessing and, while God may have left her short of talents and graces in other ways, she found that beauty trumped everything else anyway. Arlene discovered that a certain arch of an eyebrow or twinkle of an eye could yield pretty much anything she wanted.

It broke Moira's heart when Arlene left school to become an exotic dancer, though her mother didn't mind the gifts that Arlene's tips could buy. Arlene started out working at clubs in Macon, and once she'd honed her skills, she decided to move to Atlanta where she could earn more money. When her father suffered a stroke in 1999, Arlene paid most of the bills for the rest home he moved into. Despite the excellent care and attention her father received, he died in 2000 and Arlene hasn't been home to Macon since.

Arlene presently works at The Blue Peacock in Atlanta. She also is doing some work with Wenzel Hitzig and the late Achim Michaelis on an exciting new computer game, T.I.N.A.G. Arlene is temporarily staying at the Ole Miss Motel in Oxford during the investigation into the Michaelis murder.