First featured on Empress Tea, Amber’s short Story about Niamh has evolved into a published novella. Her thoughts on ‘The Becoming’ and where to find it. When asked what The Becoming is about, I usually say ‘It’s the story of a woman in a humiliating marriage, who meets a mysterious man who offers her the confidence to escape.” Or something like that. It’s hard to summarize something you’ve written. I feel like I’m cheating potential readers from really understanding what I hope their take away from this book is. Niamh (Neev) is in a humiliating marriage. She does meet a mysterious man. He does introduce her to the idea of escape. But The Becoming is really a story about choices and consequences, with some deliciously sexy bits in between. It’s the story of a girl with no power who begins to find her strength. A person born into a time where she has few choices, discovering that she does, in fact, have a choice. Niamh’s husband beats her. He cages her in their large estate and slowly, over time, takes away any support she had, leaving her in isolation. He is hungry for power and drains his wife of any […]

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