It's funny how life can throw you curve balls. If you told me last year, I would write a book, especially a romance novel. I would have laughed in your face.

Here you will find sneak peeks of some chapters in my book. I don't want to give a lot away but I think it helps when people give you some Insite on it. I mean, I have never written a book before. 

I posted a snippet of a letter that the main character writes after meeting a stranger and people seemed to enjoy it, so I'm sharing the full letter from chapter one here. 

I'm sure I will edit it 20 more times before my book is available, but here's where it's at now. 

                      I'm writing a book

How I got the Idea for the book

In April of this year, I literally had a dream one night of a young couple sitting in a truck. The way he was looking at her and how it made me feel in my dream, I swear it's like I had lived it in another life.

I didn't think anything of it until the dreams kept coming. It was all I could think about and was like a movie playing in my head. So many signs and synchronicities, too.

When lying in bed scrolling TikTok as we all do, a video came up and it say just write the book. Who cares if you are worried it won't be good? Just do it, get someone to read it, then edit it, just write the damn book. 

The next day, I started writing and writing, and before I knew it, I wrote 200 pages. I'm now 400 pages in and working on editing.

Main characters

Kathrine Thomas (katie) 

• 22 years old
• light brown hair, green eyes
• social media influencer/ blogger 
• born with congenital heart defect
• Needs a new heart
• Family issues 
• never felt loved 

Dylan Hutton

• 24 years old 
• Dark messy hair, facial scuff, hazel eyes.
• carpenter
• not good with his feelings, self sabotage
• Runs away from his problems

Takes place

Toronto, Ontario and Sauble Beach.

My favourite chapters so far

Chapter 3 Ray of sunshine

Chapter 13 Dessert 

Music that vibes with the book

• Iris, cover Jada Faca
• powerful, Ellie Goulding
• Blame's on me, Alexander Stewart
• power over me, Dermot Kennedy

Book title, What you do to me

Chapter 1

Borrowed time  

Something happened to me yesterday, so I thought I would write it in a letter. It’s funny how people don’t write letters anymore. To be honest, it makes it far less intimidating to speak your truth when written than having to say how you feel in the moment. So here is my letter to you.

Dear stranger,

   Today as I walked the path on this late spring afternoon. I was met by you. A stranger. A tall young and handsome man, with dark hair peeking out from your green hoodie. We both sat on the benches across from one another. I noticed your face looked hard, and you seemed deep in thought, with your sunglasses covering your eyes. I noticed you for a moment, as I sat there thinking to myself how this life can be so difficult, and why god chose me to have so many challenges and heartaches. 

   While sitting there on that bench across from you feeling sorry for myself. The wind blew a faint smell of your cologne in my direction. It reminded me of a candle I once smelt at a store and it made me smile. While I watched a young couple walk past, holding hands and laughing. I thought to myself, I will never get to experience anything like that. I’m okay with it, but my heart longed for some other feeling besides pain. 

   As I brought my focus back to you stranger, I felt this tiny flutter within my stomach. The flutter you feel as a kid when you go really high on a swing. It tickled a little and I think I liked it. 

   I looked up to feel the sun on my face. It was hot, but the air was still cold here in Toronto. I looked over at you again and noticed you had removed your sunglasses and were looking down at your phone. As we both sat on the benches, I felt the uncontrollable urge to keep looking at you. 

   I’m not sure how long I was looking. I couldn’t really see your face while you were looking down. My eyes examined you. Your body looked stiff, as you leaned forward, you looked to be clenching your phone tight. You seemed stressed and I wonder why. I needed to head home, but part of me wanted to stay longer. I wanted to know you. 

   It was getting late; I needed to go. As I stood to head home; you stood up too. I looked at you, then looked away; you looked so handsome and it made me feel shy. 

   I told myself to just walk away, but something inside me needed to look one more time. When I looked back up at you, your eyes met mine. They were hazel, beautiful, and welcoming. I had never seen eyes that colour before. You looked right at me, backlit by the sun setting behind you. Taking one of your hands out of your jean pocket, holding it up and mouthed the word “bye.” 

  This moment changed my life forever. When our eyes met, the energy that transpired between you and I ignited something inside my soul. I was far away from you but felt so close to you, like I knew you forever, with this intense feeling I was home. 

  No one has ever looked at me like that before, and I craved more of it. There was an instant rush of electricity that flowed through my body, and I swear it recharged my heart. 

   For a moment in time, I forgot everything. Time stood still, and nothing else mattered. I felt alive, truly alive, my heart felt strong. As you walked away, I longed for you to come back. 

   To you, this encounter was probably nothing, but for me, it changed everything. For the first time, I imagined what it would be like to live and have a long life filled with happiness, joy and life-changing moments just like this one. 

   I don’t know if I will ever see you again. I don’t even know your name. Perhaps our paths will cross again someday, probably in another life. For now, I will forever remember this moment and take it with me for as many days as I have left on this earth. 

  Stranger if today ends up being my last thank you for making me feel more valuable than I ever felt before. Thank you for your moment of kindness to take the time to say goodbye to a stranger when clearly you were in a moment of darkness.

   In that moment, you made me feel like I was worthy. The possibility that someone could see me for more than a burden. The possibility that someone could actually truly love me. If the universe doesn’t cross our paths again, because my time here is borrowed. If this is goodbye forever stranger, I leave you with this. 

   The 20 minutes that I spent admiring from afar made me wonder why the universe made our paths cross now, when my life is coming so close to the end. Was this a test? To see how badly I wanted to live? Or was it a gift for all the pain I have had to go through in my life? Truth be told, you brought a touch of magic to my life. The way you looked at me and how I felt at that moment made me want to stay. Made me wish by some miracle I could, so our story could have the chance to continue .

   The 10 seconds our eyes met. I wished my heart was healthy,  so I could see you again. Wishing to know you, perhaps to be your friend, or dare I say possibly your lover. Until my last day, I will conspire with the universe for one more chance to see you again. For now, the image of you lives only in my head, playing on repeat in my mind. 

   Please know this, I will never forget you. Even at this moment I am writing this, the thought of you standing there looking at me sends vibrations through my body, making it hard to type this letter. My heart beats harder when I think of your eyes, followed by flutters that leaves a smile on my face so grand, making my eyes squint, and my nose wrinkle.

  I know if you are reading this, it might sound mad, that a slight moment in time can drastically change my life, but it did. As I sat down to write this, I looked up what a soulmate actually is and this is my conclusion.

   A soulmate is an ordinary person that comes into your life to make you question everything and helps heal the parts of you that are broken. Designed to radically and fundamentally change your world in a second and boy, did you change mine.

   Before ending this letter, I wanted to tell my truth. I think my soul chose you, even before we met. The thought of you, and what you and I could be, I would gladly endure more pain if it meant I would have more days with you.

   For you, stranger. I want you to know that I can't promise you that life won’t have terrible moments. However, with each challenging day, the sun will eventually set and a new day will begin. I wish you all the happiness in the world. I wish the hardness that was on your face softens because your life is full of pure joy. 

   I wish all your dreams come true. That you spend your days laughing, fewer days alone, and endless days of being truly loved.

  When it's my time to leave, I will remember our moment. A moment I felt seen, a moment I felt alive, a moment I shared with you, at sunset, dear stranger. 

Katie Thomas