Andrea Baillie is a Kingston, Ontario-based author, spa owner, and self-proclaimed goofy gal who never quite stopped writing stories, even when life got loud.

By day, she owns and runs Lotus & Lavender Day Spa — a multi-year Platinum Award winner for Best Spa in Kingston — where the lotus represents rising from darkness and the lavender represents the calm on the other side of it. By night (and early mornings, over a cup of tea, never coffee), she's building Just Breathe Designs & Books, her independent publishing imprint.

Andrea has been writing since childhood — dozens of stories written just for herself, long before she worked up the nerve to share any of it. That changed with the release of Grace and Grit, her raw, lyrical memoir tracing a life full of reinvention. It didn't stop there. Her debut novel, The Nursery Rhyme, marks her first step into the genre she loves most: mystery and psychological thriller — the kind of story that lingers a little longer than it should.

She's a mom of three (her son, her bonus son and bonus daughter); cat mom to four, and someone who believes creative energy comes from the people you love and the moments you make space for — whether that's a quiet paddle across the lake or a good laugh with the people who know you best.

Andrea writes about the things that don't stay buried — family, memory, reinvention, and the versions of ourselves we become when we stop hiding. She's just getting started.

Find her: Instagram & TikTok: @justbreathe.books Website: justbreathedesignsandbooks.com