Victoria E Künhardt was born in Germany in 1996. She has, with her German father, Hungarian mother and younger brother, lived in many different places around the world, including Washington DC, Stanford, Brisbane, Seoul and Oxford. During her school year in Oxford in 2005, Victoria's passion for writing started to blossom. She finished her High School in Bonn and completed her studies in English and Primary School Teaching at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt in Bavaria. She plans on subsequently doing her Master's Degree in Creative Writing in the UK. Besides previously published short stories, Secrets is Victoria's first novel.