Ruth Coe Chambers received formal training in creative writing at the University of South Florida, following years of writing as a journey to make sense of a life that was often confusing and contradictory. She has been published in numerous anthologies, journals, and magazines, including Dolls Remembered, an anthology by Donna Dries Christensen; Water’s Edge, Life and Leisure on America’s First Coast, and
Chicken Soup for the Coffee Lover’s Soul. She Chambers has been interviewed in Pittsburgh, PA, on the radio and on TV in Memphis, TN, both in connection with her novel, The Chinaberry Album. Her novel Heat Lightning was a finalist at the 2008 First Coast Writers’ Festival Novel Contest.

Secrets, lies, and murder haunt The House on the Forgotten Coast, a magical novel set in Apalachicola, Florida, in the late 1980s. The novel begins with the beautiful Annelise Lovett Morgan, who, powerless in the face of her southern heritage, is forced to marry the mature Coulton Morgan instead of the young man who has captured her heart, artistic Seth Mitchell. But seventeen-year-old Annelise dies on her wedding day in 1879, never to live in the remarkable house built as a wedding gift from her father—and her story ends there, until Elise Foster’s parents buy the historic house in 1987. When this happens, the house becomes a portal whereby Annelise and Elise, two young women from very different centuries, meet to solve a murder that occurred 100 years earlier.