Rachel Devenish Ford

A devastating sacrifice. A daring rescue. A new world of magic unveiled. As a fourteen-year-old outsider girl in the Worker village, Isika is destined for endless drudgery, serving her priest stepfather and worshiping the four goddesses of the Worker people. She doesn't fit in and she hates the goddesses, but her mother is dead, and her three remaining siblings need her to be good and keep them safe. She can't think of anything beyond surviving each day and trying to avoid her stepfather's wrath. Until he decides to sacrifice her youngest brother to the goddesses. And Isika decides that enough is enough. She sets out on a journey to save her brother, facing an unknown world outside the walls of the Worker village. In the new world, ancient gifts awaken within her as she finds more beauty and more trouble than she could have imagined. To save her brother, she will have to trust the magical creatures and mysterious new friends who have come to guide her. What's more, as she learns to love her new place in the world, she will have to learn to control magic that could be the key to her destiny and the fate of everyone around her. Perfect for fans of Madeleine L'Engle, the Chronicles of Narnia, and Robin McKinley. Buy your copy to begin the adventure today!

World Whisperer

"A beautiful, beautiful book." ~ Sara J. Henry, award-winning author of Learning to Swim. From the author of The Eve Tree comes a travel story unlike any other, a tale of fathers and sons, love, longing and the search for home. Timothy keeps getting rice in his baby's hair. India is overwhelming even if you aren't 24 years old and a recently widowed new father, and Timothy isn't sure that he and his infant son will survive without a mother in the picture. he begins a journey through India with his baby, searching for a home in the new landscape of fatherhood, understanding of what this parenting thing is supposed to be, and a way back into life. A Traveler's Guide to Belonging is a literary novel rich with emotion and description. If you like Anne Lamott, Barbara Kingsolver, or Ann Patchett, you'll love the book that one reader called, "Part travelogue, part spiritual journey, and part gentle romance." Read it now to be transported to the stunning vistas and winding train tracks of India today.

A Novel

A Traveler's Guide to Belonging

On March 20, 2020, Rachel Devenish Ford started writing a poem a day, and she continued with this practice for an entire year. Her poetry is a gentle response to each day, like an answer in a conversation. Each one is a small, contained thing, translating world events, family events, or insect life into something a little easier to see, to love. The poems are loose, dreamy, and tidal. Read sequentially, they give a picture of one woman’s life during a global pandemic. They read like a landscape, rising and falling in words and tone, like the ocean, like music. They are welcoming and expansive, a meal you have been invited to eat. Devenish Ford's poetry has themes of womanhood, life in her home in Thailand, prayers and spirituality, world events and racial justice, motherhood, and a strong love of beauty like a thread that moves through her words. These poems will be familiar because of their humanity, and their welcome feels like home.

Everything Bright, Clear, and Beautiful: A Year of Poetry

Third in this series, A Home as Wide as the Earth continues the themes of belonging, wandering, and faith present in Rachel Devenish Ford's blog, Journey Mama. In A Home as Wide as the Earth, Rachel travels on trains, buses, and rickshaws with her husband and children, journeying from the U.S. to India, Nepal, and Thailand, encountering God in the midst of bothcommunity and loneliness. Rachel's writing is warm and honest, sparkling and clear. She beautifully captures the small ordinary things that make up our days and lives. Candid and funny, spiritual and wise, this third collection of posts from the Journey Mama blog will comfort and inspire."

A Home As Wide As the Earth

The second book in the World Whisperer series follows the tale of Isika growing into her destiny, even as forces from the Great Waste attempt to destroy her. Though Isika now lives happily with the Maweel, her problems seem to be following her. Apprenticing for the master potter and enjoying life with a real family occupy Isika’s days, until a call for help from her beloved stepmother forces her to choose between her new life and her old. As Isika rushes back to the Worker village in hope of rescuing her stepmother, she is thrust into a plot of deception and lies, maliciously pursued by evil forces. A journey deep into the desert will test all of her newfound strength and gifting. Jabari and the other seekers follow Isika with hopes of helping, until the moment they find themselves attacked by the endless evil and malice that seeks to destroy the World Whisperer. Together they will have to find strength and belief in one another... if they ever want to make their way out of the desert and back to the land they love.

Guardian of Dawn

Ten years ago, Molly Boscelli took over her family ranch and goat farm in Humboldt County, California, with her husband, Jack. Now, a forest fire is making its way toward them, threatening their home and way of life. Molly's mother and grown children rally at the ranch in a last ditch attempt to prepare for disaster. The family must work through the truth about their history and look for a way to save the ranch. As Molly struggles to find her place, she uncovers her true feelings about the land that is her home and birthright and prepares to take extreme measures to defend it.

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