Rose Parker’s life in New York City is over with and dead. She fled the city looking to leave her life behind, including a toxic ex and an assault that she pledges never to remember.

Moving to Austin, Texas is supposed to be her new start, far away from her mistakes of the past. That’s where she meets Robert Alexander, a devilishly handsome man 20 years her senior.

While at first Rose has no idea he's a founder of one of the most successful tech companies in America, Rose is intrigued, and she falls fast. However, as the weeks pass, Rose realizes their love story is not without conditions, and she will have to risk losing herself to submit to his rules.

Rose tells herself that love isn’t supposed to look like this. But Rob makes it easy to forget. Until his past begins to come back to haunt him.

Perhaps Rob's long lost love, the wife he said was murdered in his home, was not actually taken away from him by her alleged killer. After an investigator finds Rose, she must face the facts and decide if she can ever truly trust a man again...and what exactly Rob did to his ex wife. Is it a far cry from what he would do to Rose?

FREE ME FROM THE GIRL I USED TO BE is an 84,000-word romance turned thriller that will appeal to fans of E.L. James’ Fifty Shades of Grey and Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl.