Rachels Redemption is a love story/mystery the essence of the narrative distilled in the life of a young South Korean woman whose marriage to an American military man leads to a most horrendous miscarriage of justice. The reader may be challenged to a closer look at views too long blindly accepted particularly concerning the death penalty. Preview readers report inability to put the book aside it is so filled with surprises and mini-stories of the diverse characters involved. Tender love stories and the revelation of unexpected events intertwine with the main story line about Rachel providing incentive for non-stop page-turning and over-whelming emotional response. Rachels story should be difficult to soon forget.