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About Vanessa
Vanessa McBride is the Christian romance fiction imprint of NRhythm Press — a pen name behind which lives a storyteller with a deep love for faith, for people, and for the kind of romance that doesn't shy away from the complicated terrain of the human heart.
Vanessa writes for readers who want more from their romance novels. More depth. More faith. More of the real, messy, grace-filled experience of falling in love while trying to follow God. Her characters are not perfect. They carry grief, doubt, cultural complexity, and the weight of their own history. But they also carry faith — and that faith, however imperfect, is always what leads them home.
Her novels are clean and character-driven, with warmth, humor, and the kind of slow-burn tension that keeps pages turning long past a reasonable bedtime. Faith is not a backdrop in Vanessa's stories. It is a character — present, active, and always moving the story forward.
Her Writing
Vanessa's fiction is anchored by a simple belief: that love stories are better when God is in the middle of them. Not as a moral lesson. Not as a plot device. But as the quiet, persistent, sometimes surprising presence that changes everything — in her characters' lives and in the reader's heart.
Her debut novel, Leave Room for Aloha, moves between the sun-warmed shores of Hawaii and the breathtaking landscapes of Denver and Boulder, Colorado. It is a story about second chances, cultural roots, and the love that finds you when you finally stop running from it.
Her sophomore novel, Faith, Love & New Beginnings, brings two widowed professionals together in Raleigh, North Carolina — a story about grief that gives way to grace, and love that arrives right on time.
Titles by Vanessa McBride
Leave Room for Aloha Christian Romance Fiction From the sun-warmed shores of Hawaii to the breathtaking landscapes of Denver and Boulder, Colorado, Leave Room for Aloha is a story about second chances, cultural roots, and the love that finds you when you finally stop running from it. Faith-inspired, warmly told, and impossible to put down. [Learn More] [Buy Now]
Faith, Love & New Beginnings Christian Romance Fiction Two widowed professionals.One company holiday party. And a God who has never once run out of new beginnings. Set in Raleigh, North Carolina, this is a story about grief that gives way to grace — and love that arrives right on time. [Learn More] [Buy Now]
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Vanessa McBride
Christian Romance Fiction
"I write about love because I believe God invented it — and because the best love stories are the ones He writes."