Would certainly be more grammatically correct to have titled it "and then" instead of just "then there was her". Terrible English
I don't think the "her" is Maddie:
"I was running late, again. The sweat from under my milk-filled udders ran down my stomach and onto the post-natal recovery shorts I’d squeezed on under my leather skirt. Only eight weeks earlier, I’d birthed my second baby, and this was one of my first work appearances.
I raced into the hotel, took the lift to the wrong floor, fumbled my bag and finally landed at the entrance. I went around the circle of unfamiliar faces, smiling, shaking hands, introducing myself…
Then there was her.
As our hands touched, time froze. My whole world changed forever…
Sophie Cachia had her white picket fence life. By the age of 25, she was a mother and happily married, and had also built a very successful business by documenting her every move online.
But Sophie and her comfortable existence were thrown a curveball when she met a woman who prompted her to ask herself the questions: What more can I do? What more can I learn? What more can I be?" "
Someone on Gomi did the groundwork and thought the "her" may have been Moana Hope - not that whoever the woman it was actually responded to the life changing "touch". Moana was, and still is, in a relationship with a stunning partner.