"Beating the Odds" (A Story of the odds becoming a stepping stone of the possibilities of Sophia Dominique Blue's life) is based on a true story. This book tells a story about a little girl going back and forth from one city to another and the struggles of the environments of the two cities that she had to deal with. She had no one that she felt she could trust to protect her from harm's way. Her nick name was Sophie and she knew she wanted a better life and refused to accept the hand that was dealt to her. That it was her fate, and way of life. Sophie began her journey with traveling back in forth as a child from New York to California. Sophie struggled with the treatment she went through and found it totally unacceptable. She decided the she was going to beat the odds and use her struggles as a stepping stone to a better life. Sophie had bouts with hope, despair and even hunger but, she knew there would be a better future. Take a journey on the road with Sophie to see how she developed from a child to the woman she had become.