Alyssa Cole is a science editor and an author of sci-fi, historical, and contemporary romance. Her post-apocalyptic romance Mixed Signals, the last in her Off the Grid trilogy, garnered the 2016 RT Reviewer’s Choice Award for Best Futuristic Romance, and her Freedom Rides-set romance novella Let It Shine was a 2016 RITA finalist. An Extraordinary Union, the first in a Civil War espionage romance series, will be released in March 2017. When she’s not busy writing, traveling, and learning French, she can be found watching anime with her real-life romance hero, tending to her herd of animals, and finding ways to get around her Twitter-blocking app.