Rachel Fordham is al lange tijd gefascineerd door historische details en verweeft deze vaak in haar verhalen voor kinderen. Ondanks haar liefde voor goede verhalen begon ze pas met het schrijven van romans op uitdaging van haar man. Sindsdien is ze vaak te vinden terwijl ze typt of onderzoek doet terwijl haar jongste kind dut, of terwijl ze koortsachtig plotwendingen schrijft in de rij om kinderen van school te halen. Naast haar passie voor verhalen vertellen, houdt ze van lezen, buiten zijn en nieuwe plekken ontdekken.
After spending five years in a New York state reformatory serving an unjust
sentence, all Hazel wants to do is secure a job so she can begin clearing her
name. Assisting dentist Gilbert Watts offers her that chance--and more. But
can her hopes for the future ever expunge the shame of her past?
A schoolteacher in the Dakota Territory must face her past--and her shameful
secret--when a familiar doctor arrives in town and threatens to unlock the
heart she's guarded so tightly.
As Norah King surveys her family land in Iowa in 1880, she is acutely aware that it is all she has left, and she will do everything in her power to save it--even if that means marrying a man she hardly knows. Days before her wedding, Norah discovers an injured man on her property. Her sense of duty compels her to take him in and nurse him back to health. Little does she realize just how much this act of kindness will complicate her life and threaten the future she's planned. Norah's care does more than aid Quincy Barnes's recovery--it awakens his heart to possibilities. Penniless and homeless, he knows the most honorable thing he can do is head on down the road and leave Norah to marry her intended. But walking away from the first person to believe in him proves much harder than he imagined. Rachel Fordham invites you to experience the strength and beauty of love forged in the crucible of hardship in this heartwarming story.