Sally Campbell Repass’ second venture as a novelist, For the Love of Rachel, arrived from the publisher last week at her Atkins home. The author of Princess Kari & The Golden Haired Boy tells the story of 10-year-old Rachel who Repass said “loses her parents and is raised by her aunt.
It’s a familiar story. She tried over and over to lose weight. Sometimes she succeeded, but it always came back. And it seemed so unfair because she didn’t want to get as skinny as a supermodel, just a healthy weight, 145 or 150 pounds.