Francine Sandra Rivers (born 1947) is an American author of fiction with Christian themes, including inspirational romance novels.
[3][4] She attended the University of Nevada, Reno, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and journalism.
She spent her time instead studying the Bible, and decided to adapt her writing to focus on more Christian themes.
[5] Redeeming Love updates the Old Testament book of Hosea to the American West of the 1850s and tells the story of a prostitute named Angel, who is eventually reformed and converted to Christianity by the stoic patience and love of a frontier farmer named Michael Hosea.
She has purchased the publication rights to her earlier romance novels so that she can prevent them from being released again, but some titles have been rereleased and others circulate in used bookstores.
[6] In 2007, her novel The Last Sin Eater was made into a feature film, directed by Michael Landon Jr. and distributed by Fox Faith.
[9] She executive produced and wrote the script for the upcoming film adaptation of her novel, Redeeming Love, which is set to debut in theaters in 2021.