Romy Hausmann was born in East Germany in 1981. At the age of twenty-four she became chief editor at a film production company in Munich. Since the birth of her son, Romy has been working as a freelancer in television. Her thriller debut, DEAR CHILD, became a number one bestseller in Germany and is being published in twenty countries. SLEEPLESS is her second thriller. Romy lives with her family in a remote house in the woods near Stuttgart.