Susan Klaus, a native of Sarasota, Florida, has an extensive history of working with animals. She’s managed and co-owned a horse farm, breeding and racing Thoroughbreds for the past thirteen years and is currently raising rodeo bulls. Klaus is the award-winning author of four sci-fi novels and is the host and co-producer of Author’s Connection, a radio show with listeners in 148 countries. Shark Fin Soup is Klaus’s second thriller in the Christian Roberts series following the highly successful Secretariat Reborn, for which she was awarded a silver medal by the Florida Authors and Publishers Association. She lives in Myakka City, Florida, on her forty acre farm.