Rachel Armstrong is a local North Queensland author of contemporary romantic fiction. She loves writing about rural small towns, stirring up the suspense with terrifying villains, and placing paranormal shifters in our everyday world.
Rachel is best known for her Shadow Creek books. She has received two Emerald Awards from Romance Writers of Australia for best unpublished romance manuscript, and her debut novel Reunited with the Millionaire — proudly set on Hamilton Island to highlight the best of what the Whitsundays has to offer — was a finalist in the Romantic Book of the Year Awards.
In 2024, Rachel was awarded the Romantic Book of the Year Award for The Man from Shadow Creek by Romance Writers of Australia.
Rachel grew up in Mackay and spent many summers in the Whitsundays snorkelling the reef and enjoying the pleasures of Hamilton and Long Island. She currently lives in Townsville with her border collie, Jacob, where she helps people live their best lives as an exercise physiologist.
In her spare time, she is either reading on the treadmill or plotting out her next novel while grooving at Zumba. Rachel is a keen traveller and has enjoyed many holidays exploring historic London, flying through the Grand Canyon, and hiking volcanos in Bali.
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