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Laura C. Rader

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Fiction, Historical Fiction, Romance

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Laura C. Rader's debut historical novel, Hatfield 1677, is inspired by the true story of her ninth great-grandparents, Benjamin and Martha Waite, and their colonial Massachusetts town. It is the 2024 First Place Winner of CIBA's Chaucer Award for pre-1750 Historical Fiction and Feathered Quill's Second Place Debut Author Award.

Laura is a full-time historical fiction author, and also enjoys studying genealogy, attending book club meetings, taking forest walks with her Rough Collie, and spending time with family and friends.

Originally from California, Laura lives about twenty miles north of Raleigh, North Carolina.

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“She imagined, now, what it would be like to accept herself completely. Every mistake she had ever made. Every mark on her body. Every dream she hadn’t reached or pain she had felt. Every lust or longing she had suppressed. She imagined accepting it all. The way she accepted nature. The way she accepted a glacier or a puffin or the breach of a whale. She imagined seeing herself as just another brilliant freak of nature. Just another sentient animal, trying their best. And in doing so, she imagined what it was like to be free.”
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