A native of Phoenix, Arizona, Jennifer Handford now lives in the Washington, DC, area with her husband and three children. One of three first-place finalists in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest in 2010, she published her first novel, DAUGHTERS FOR A TIME, in 2012. People magazine hailed it as a wrenching, resonant debut about infertility, cancer and adoption. Grab your hankies. In 2014, ACTS OF CONTRITION was published. THE LIGHT OF HIDDEN FLOWERS due out in November, is Jennifers third novel.