Welcome to My Storytelling Corner

Where Books Meet Wonder, Faith meets family, and words become laughter and light in the messy middle.

Where every Story finds a home

My world is a mix of swoony love stories, faith-filled essays, and reflections that (hopefully) read like a voice memo from a friend who sees you and gets it.

If you're craving a novel that makes you feel something...

or a devotional that comforts you in the chaos...

or a place to laugh through motherhood, fall in love on the page, or rediscover God's presence in the quiet moments between loads of laundry and dishes...

you're in the right spot.

“The most amazing stories of love and humor and heart.”

— Melissa West, USA Today Bestselling Author

Stories are how we remember the goodness threaded through our lives, and this space brings together all the worlds I write in–from swoony, small-town and coming-of-age romances to thoughtful essays on faith, family, and identity, and the blog where I spill my heart, my lessons, and occasionally my caffeinated beverage of choice (spoiler alert: it's Diet Mountain Dew).

Wherever you choose to wander next, I'm glad you're here.

Signing my dad's copy of Eyes On Me at a launch event.

The support from my entire family is such a blessing.

Young Adult Fiction

Full Of Feels, Friendship, Family, and First Love.

Coming of age, finding your way, and learning who you are. Stories exploring identity, chasing dreams, discovering what's truly important, and the true meaning of strength.

For young adults wanting to see themselves in fiction...

And for the girl still inside the woman–wondering, dreaming, learning to be brave.

"Compulsively readable...Rachel Harris is a master at creating sizzling but sweet romances." ~ Paula Stokes, Bestselling Author

  • Eyes On Me – Contemporary

  • The Natural History of Us – Contemporary

  • The Fine Art of Pretending – Contemporary

  • My Super Sweet Sixteenth Century – Fantasy, Magical Realism

  • A Tale of Two Centuries – Fantasy, Magical Realism

  • My Not So Super Sweet Life – Fantasy, Magical Realism

Explore Young Adult Stories

Adult Fiction

Romantic Comedies and Heartfelt Romances with Small-Town, Southern Charm. Laughter, love, and second chances.

Warm kitchens, country music, and families who always have each other's back.

Stories full of friendship, food, and flirting that makes you grin

"Completely modern, totally entertaining and stuffed with flirty, romantic goodness." ~ RT Book Reviews

  • Taste the Heat – Love & Games Series

  • Seven Day Fiancé– Love & Games Series

  • Accidentally Married on Purpose – Love & Games Series

  • You're Still the One – Country Blues Series

  • The Nanny Arrangement – Country Blues Series

Story-rich reflections on faith, identity, and living unshrunk

For Women Ready To Stop Editing Themselves And Live From The Inside Out.

Substack is where I write Companion Essays: story-rich reflections on faith, identity, legacy, and real life. Some essays grow out of conversations from The Joyful Rebel Podcast. Others come from memory, family life, or the moments that linger after the mic is off—when the real integration begins.

It isn’t a room for polished certainty or performative wisdom. It’s a place for honest noticing. For naming the stories we’ve lived inside. For remembering who we were before shrinking started to feel responsible. And for cultivating internal resources to empower us to live rooted, radiant, and rebelliously authentic.

"Living visible doesn’t always look like big announcements, or bold moments of perfection. It can look a lot like Doing the Hard Thing Anyway." - excerpt from 'Practicing Imperfection'

Themes Explored

  • Living Unshrunk - identity, visibility, agency, and living unedited

  • Faith In Real Life - discernment, spiritual tools, and strong biblical heroines as role models

  • Story & Culture - the heroine's journey applied to life using my ReStory Arc™

  • Pressed Flower - motherhood, homeschool reflections, and multigenerational legacy

The power of Story

I've always been passionate about the written word. I grew up writing countless first chapters until I finally finished and even published one...and then 10 others...in multiple languages.

As a New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author, I've been given opportunities to speak on stages and in classrooms about story structure and character development.

I homeschooled my daughters for 16 years with biographies and real books as our primary curriculum– then watched as they stepped into their own life stories with Leading Lady energy.

I've served in faith ministries for 20 years, sharing Jesus's life-changing Parables and Gospel message to all ages, and gaining certification in both the Enneagram and Ignatian spiritual practices, learning how the Ultimate Author uses story to teach and guide us.

And today, I bring all my training and life experience together in my coaching and courses, creating signature systems, such as my ReStory Arc™, Harmony Bloom Pathway™, Legacy of Learning Approach™, and ReStory Unit Study Framework™ to empower and equip women to rewrite their stories.

Stories are how we soften, how we grow, how we remember what matters most.

Whether you're here looking for comfort, courage, or a spark of imagination, you're welcome here.

My first book signing in 2012.

My husband and daughters celebrated every single release with me.

This feels like it was taken yesterday. Don't blink, friends.