Rachel Griffin Books in Order

If you want her signature nature magic first: The Nature of Witches → Wild is the Witch
If you want romance-forward fantasy: Bring Me Your Midnight → The Sun and the Starmaker
If you want the clearest publication-order path: The Nature of Witches → Wild is the Witch → Bring Me Your Midnight → The Sun and the Starmaker

Rachel Griffin was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest, and that stretch of rain, mountains, ocean, and evergreens still runs through everything she writes. Her novels are full of weather, wild places, and characters trying to stay steady when the world around them is shifting. If you have read even one of her books, you can feel how closely she watches the natural world.

Her path to publishing did not start in a writing program or a publishing office. Griffin graduated from Seattle University with a Bachelor of Science in diagnostic ultrasound, worked in healthcare for five years, and later taught ultrasound at her alma mater. She also spent time at a small startup before fiction became her full-time work.

Writing came later.

Griffin has said that in 2012 she felt lost and unfulfilled, asked herself what she would do if she could do anything, and got an immediate answer: write. She started taking fiction seriously at twenty-seven. Some of those early pages were written between hospital shifts and overnight call, and she has remembered finishing a first draft at 2:30 in the morning and bursting into tears because she was so proud. Her debut finally reached shelves when she was thirty-six.

She learned the job step by step. Pitch Wars was a big turning point for her in 2016, when she found mentorship, learned how to revise, and found a writing community. She has also written openly about books that did not sell, long stretches of querying, and the kind of setbacks that make a writer either quit or dig in. She dug in.

Her breakout novel, The Nature of Witches, became a New York Times bestseller. It follows Clara Densmore, an Everwitch whose magic shifts with the seasons, and it brings together climate anxiety, romance, and questions of duty in a way that feels personal instead of abstract. Readers who click with Griffin's work often come for the magic and stay for the emotional honesty.

Wild is the Witch keeps that closeness to nature but moves into the damp woods and wildlife spaces of Washington. Bring Me Your Midnight turns toward island covens, forbidden magic, and a heroine caught between family expectation and her own wants. Across both books, Griffin returns to a few favorite pressures: dangerous power, guarded girls, tender romance, and the cost of choosing for yourself.

Then The Sun and the Starmaker pushes even farther into fairy-tale territory, with a frozen village, an icy castle, and a love story shaped by secrecy and survival. Even as the settings change, the thread stays the same. Griffin likes big atmosphere, but she keeps her focus on private fears, longing, and the small human choices that sit inside larger magic.

She writes full-time now.

These days Griffin lives with her husband in western Washington. When she is not writing, she has said she is usually reading by the fire, wandering rain-soaked forests, or working her way through a lot of coffee and tea. It sounds like the right life for a writer whose books are so tuned to storms, trees, cold air, and the pull of the seasons.