At age 12, she began surreptitiously borrowing her mother's Harlequin Presents romance novels and fell in love with the genre.

[1] As an adult, Ashley began writing books in the evenings, after she finished a long day of working in the medical field - first at the Rocky Mountain MS Center, then the Colorado Neurological Institute, and then, after a move to Bristol, England, at The Pituitary Foundation.

[5] Once her writing career reached a certain threshold, Ashley hired help; she now has an assistant and works with graphic designers, proofreaders, and copyeditors.

With traditional publishing, her novels would be available in print as well as ebooks, which would expand her audience to people without ereaders and those who liked to browse bookstores and libraries.

It was directed by Louise Alston and starred Megan Dodds, Chris McKenna, Martin Dingle-Wall and Patrick Byas.

Four of her novels (Motorcycle Man, The Will, Ride Steady, and The Hookup) have been finalists for Goodreads Choice Awards in the Romance category.

[16][17] In interviews, Ashley states that she struggled with sleep due to an active mind, which she turned to creating stories that she continued developing over time.

[16] She claims that she does not tone down or restrict her characters into the typical hero and heroines found in romance novels, this being part of the reason for rejections by traditional publishers.