I Thought I Found Her: The Encounter is a raw and unfiltered memoir drawn from the author's real journal entries during the early days of online dating. Before swipes and apps, there were chat rooms, dating websites, and personal ads. In that digital chaos, he was searching for something more profound: real love.

In this unforgettable snapshot of 2005, we meet Tamia, a magnetic woman from Chicago who quickly becomes the center of his attention. Their late-night phone calls, playful IMs, and moments of raw intimacy blur the line between passion and paranoia, desire and doubt. But love is never simple. Distance, jealousy, and trust issues weigh heavily on every word exchanged. As the weeks unfold, the author finds himself pulled between excitement and exhaustion, hope and heartbreak.

Told through vivid, day-by-day entries - kept raw in places, erotic in others, and always authentic - I Thought I Found Her captures the intensity of modern romance before apps streamlined it. It's messy, obsessive, funny, painful, and deeply human.

For anyone who has ever waited for a call that never came, overanalyzed a message, or believed the subsequent encounter might finally be "the one," this memoir will feel uncomfortably familiar.

I Thought I Found Her: The Encounter is more than just a dating story; it's a confession, a mirror, and a reminder that searching for love often reveals more about ourselves than the people we chase.