She built her life on control. Now everything is coming undone.

Elizabeth Rutland has spent her life doing everything right. As a rising marketing executive in 1988 St. Louis, she has built a reputation for discipline, precision, and composure. Her future looks exactly as planned.

Until a very public breakup shatters the image she worked so carefully to maintain.

As whispers follow her into conference rooms and old memories begin surfacing without warning, Elizabeth finds herself confronting something she has avoided for years. The past she buried at nineteen refuses to stay hidden. Nightmares return. Carefully constructed defenses begin to crack.

Drawn back into the complicated pull of family, friendship, and a man who sees beyond her carefully managed exterior, Elizabeth must face the truth she has spent years outrunning.

Who is she without perfection? Without control? Without the life she planned?

Becoming Liz is an intimate, emotionally rich novel about buried memory, identity, and the courage it takes to claim your life as your own.