The Ordeals

Rachel Greenlaw grew up in North Cornwall, surrounded by wild moorland. She studied English with Creative Writing at Falmouth University before moving to an island in the middle of the Atlantic, with all the allure of tropical palm trees in the summer and spine-tingling storms in the winter.

Rachel has written two adult novels, One Christmas Morning (2023), which was nominated for an RNA, and The Woodsmoke Women s Book of Spells (2024), which was a Waterstones Hardback Top 10 Bestseller. Both were published by HQ (UK) and Avon (US). Rachel is also the author of the YA fantasy trilogy, Compass and Blade, the first instalment of which was a YA Top 10 Bestseller. HarperCollins Children s are to publish the second instalment Shadow and Tide in the UK and US on 27 February 2025.