[6] She also co-wrote (with Julie Stav) the New York Times Bestselling adult nonfiction Fund Your Future [Berkley 2002].

[7][8] Her 2009 YA nonfiction, Surviving the Angel of Death: The True Story of a Mengele Twin in Auschwitz, co-authored with Eva Kor, was named an American Booksellers Association ABC Best Books for Young Readers in 2017,[9] and has received notoriety from Candles Holocaust Museum,[10] the Jewish Book Council,[11] as well as Archbishop Desmond Tutu,[12] among others.

Her mother, Mary Marks, is an author and reviewer of cozy mysteries for Kensington Publishing Corp.[19] She has eight half-siblings, all younger – four half-brothers and four half-sisters, and 19 nieces and nephews.

After high school, she attended UCLA, where she graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with Honors in 1986, receiving her B.A.

[21][22] She married and divorced Kristian Buccieri (hence the name Rojany-Buccieri on several book authorships), and has three children: Olivia, Chloe, and Genevieve.