Lisa Lynette Clark was just out of an abusive marriage and trying to move on with her life back in 2004 when she spotted a handsome young man across the street from her Douglasville home.

"He was buff with a six pack of abs, cut pecks and big arms," according to an account Clark gave for a book called "Betrayed: The True Life Story of Lisa Lynette Clark," which was released Friday, the same day Clark was released from a southeast Atlanta prison.

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Lynette Clark speaks to reporters after her release Friday.

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Two years ago, Lisa Clark became a household name in metro Atlanta as her marriage to a 15-year-old made the rounds of cable talk shows and brought unwanted attention to Georgia's marriage laws.

Clark, who describes herself in the book as "a very sexual person," spent two years behind bars for helping her husband — and father of her son — flee state custody.

She was released from Metro State Prison in Atlanta early Friday morning, undetected by a hoard of reporters camped outside in the rain. After a trip to McDonald's, she surfaced at 12:39 p.m. at a probation office in Douglasville, where she was greeted by a dozen reporters and photographers.

Wearing black sunglasses and sporting long brown and gray hair, Clark stopped only briefly before entering the building.

"It's indescribable," she said of her new-found freedom. A reporter asked if it was wonderful. She nodded yes, then headed inside. One hour and 11 minutes later, she slipped out a side door. Reporters tossed out questions: Had she seen her husband? Had she seen her baby? But she didn't respond before getting into the passenger seat of a blue Toyota Paseo and speeding out of the parking lot.

Though Clark was quiet, her husband's grandmother had plenty to say.

"She oughta be caged up forever because she's an animal," said Judy Hayles of Gainseville, adding that Clark's husband now lives in Texas with his mother. "If she showed up at my door, I'd beat her right here, and I'm not kiddin.'"

On Nov. 8, 2005, Clark, who was then 37, and her teenage lover were married, taking advantage of a legal loophole that allowed a minor to marry without permission from a parent or guardian if the bride is pregnant. But a day after the marriage, authorities in Hall County, where Clark and the teenager lived, issued a warrant for her arrest, charging her with child molestation, statutory rape and enticing a child for indecent purposes.

In March 2006, Clark pleaded guilty to statutory rape and spent nine months in the Hall County Jail, where she gave birth to a 7-pound, 9-ounce son. The baby was placed in a foster home.

The Atlanta-Journal Constitution is not naming her husband because he is the victim of sexual assault.

Clark's 191-page book was dictated while she was in prison and only 1,000 copies printed. It includes letters she wrote to her husband from prison.

"I know we have made some mistakes, but I know we have wait it takes," she wrote in a letter dated April 22, 2006. "You are my best friend. Until we meet again, I love you baby, so much."