Rachel Fordham

On an island in Washington state, Rachel Fordham writes inspirational historical romance she took up only because her husband Tyler suggested she try a book. She had studied sociology with social work in mind. Revell brought out A Lady in Attendance in June 2021: set in 1898, it follows Hazel, who takes a post as lady in attendance to the quiet, devout Doctor Gilbert Watts under a borrowed name, because five years in a New York state reformatory attach to her real one. Redemption and second chances run through it, as they do through her earlier novels The Hope of Azure Springs, Yours Truly, Thomas and A Life Once Dreamed. Where the Road Bends followed, then The Letter Tree, a 1920s romance built on a Romeo and Juliet quarrel between two families. The couple have fostered children alongside raising their own.