This is the story of a life, one of a path untraveled. Empress Kimberly is troubled but sheA aa s unsure why. For some thirty years she has carried this burden but she is unsure from where. She looks to the simple gold band on her finger and wonders why she still wears it. Her close friend, a protector, a guardian, she feels it also, and she dares not speak the words of why but still she is compelled to remedy her dear daughterA aa s turmoil. Within her grasp is a solution, a key within a new life, just an infant yet a profound connection to the empressesA aa past, one still in desperate need of reconciliation with the present. The connection to this innocent child will free her mind from its prison and through the darkness of night will lead her to the truth about her past and the person she used to be.