About the Author

Kerstin Gier has been writing women's fiction and romance, including her humorous and highly popular Mutter-Mafia (Mama Mafia) series, since she graduated college and couldn't find a "real" job. Her first published novel, Manner und andere Katastrophen (Men and Other Catastrophes), was recently turned into a movie, and her book Ein unmoralisches Sonderangebot (An Immoral Offer) won the German Romance Authors' Association 2005 Literary Prize for best German-language romance novel. She lives in Germany.