Becoming is the story of one woman's triumph after her escape from an abusive husband and loveless marriage. Running for her life with her six year old son, she changes their names, alters her appearance and hides out at THE STAR OF HOPE MISSION in HOUSTON, Texas. Riveting and profound, BECOMING, is a blueprint of the processes a desperate woman can take and the myriad of choices she has in today's world. There is no place for any abuse in life. Women need not subject themselves or their children to such horrors. There is help. There is a way and there is a path to happiness. BECOMING a whole and loved woman is every woman's right. Though this is fiction, it is based on a true story as told to the author at THE STAR OF HOPE.