She wasn't born hard. She was shaped by what she survived.

Before I Knew Bre is the unflinching, faith-rooted memoir of a woman who lost years of her life behind a prison wall ? and then had to figure out how to live after.

From a childhood of instability in Memphis, to motherhood through bars, to coming home to a son who didn't yet know her, to building businesses from the ground up in a new city ? Bre Collins tells the truth about what it costs to become the woman you were always meant to be.

This is a story about more than survival. It's about the long, quiet work of rebuilding when no one taught you how. About the difference between being silent and being healed. About finding your name, your purpose, and your people ? sometimes in the places you never expected.

For every woman carrying a story she was told to keep quiet. For every mother trying to make a different ending. For every woman still becoming.

This is not the end of her story. It's the beginning of her purpose.