Carol Van Natta is a USA TODAY bestselling and award-winning science fiction and fantasy author. Series include the Ice Age Shifters® paranormal romance series that starts with Shifter Mate Magic and Shift of Destiny, and the Central Galactic Concordance space opera series that starts with Last Ship Off Polaris-G, Overload Flux, and Minder Rising. She shares her Fort Collins, CO home with a resident mad scientist and just the right number of equally mad cats.