Robyn Schneider grew up in Southern California, where she spent her childhood reading fantasy novels and searching for secret passages. She’ s a graduate of Columbia University, where she studied creative writing, and the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, where she earned a Masters of Bioethics. Robyn is the bestselling author of The Other Merlin, The Beginning of Everything, Extraordinary Means, Invisible Ghosts, and You Don’ t Live Here. Her work is available across the world in over a dozen languages. She lives in Los Angeles with her TV producer husband, their tiny puppy, and far too many books.