Rachel Reid, the unassuming author of ‘Heated Rivalry’ whose universe has taken on a life of its own

Rachel Reid, 46, had such low expectations for her first novel, Game Changer, that when she sent the final manuscript to the publisher — Harlequin — she didn’t even tell her husband or her parents. She only confessed what she had shortly before it was published in 2018. “I was so self-conscious about people reading what I wrote at all, but especially people that I knew reading what I wrote. I mean, I guess part of that is just the nature of what I write. It’s, you know, it’s sexually explicit fiction and romance and all sorts of things that people might have strong opinions about or be a little shocked by,” she told The Walrus in January.

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