This totally captivating journey takes the reader on a trip in time with the author and cancer survivor as she seeks to find answers to the inner strength she found within as she battled to survive. More than just a memoir, Susan Steen Ciolek, follows a path not often traveled in merging a link to her ancestry and the battle she fought and won. It opens in Great Britain where paternal grandparents, a shipyard worker and a servant to the Royal Family, meet, raise children and immigrate to a small coal mining town in the Pennsylvania Mountains. There entwined through marriage into a wealthy influential family, the union results in the birth of the author. The journey opens up the author's secret world of battling both physical and psychological elements for her survival and the imprint she believes is possessed in her lineage. This book holds within its pages a glimpse into the sorrows felt within the Royal Family as they dealt with events in their private lives behind the walls of Kensington Palace and their summer home at Osborne Cottage on a quaint isle off the English Channel. A true tribute to life and all those who came before, wealthy or poor, royal or commoner, who gave of their imprints that which we all share in today, and hope for tomorrow.