How many women live their lives with an inability to have intimate relationships? How many men and women have a problem with excessive promiscuity, time after time? Well, this is a story about Alice Banks who had a typical childhood up until her mother Michele let a streetwise man named Steve into their lives. Steve would bring rape, torture and murder into their lives, while Michele turns a blind eye. Alice like thousands of other women would grow up tormented by shame and guilt, believing that she was responsible for the abuse brought upon her. As Alice goes from one tragic event to another, can Alice triumph over all the tragedy Steve and "life" have put her through? Can she rise above the molestation, rape, prostitution and murder and live a productive life? Or will she fall victim to the emotional components and leave the world to always and forever wonder, How She Became A HOE. This is a true-to-life story. It is a book for every father, mother and young adult to read.