This series of thirteen books shows the evolution over time of both societies and human aberrations, caused in no small part by the direct control of three different groups of aliens. The premise is that people are spiritual beings that inhabit physical bodies and have minds. Further, traumas block memories of past lives as well as inhibiting recall of previous lives and dictate in some measures the person's behavior in their current lifetime. The aliens aid in the forgetting process by latching onto the spiritual being whose current body has just died, electronically zapping them, scrambling and altering the memories in their mind, and then implanting commands to be obeyed in the next lifetime, such as "You are no good," "You are worthless," and "You are stupid." Thus the commands buried in these moments of pain and unconsciousness impact the person's next lifetime; the person will believe utterly that they are "no good" or that they are completely "worthless" or that they are incredibly "stupid." Through the thirteen novels, Elizabeth Stanton and her group discover what is actually happening on their world of Tarra. Namely, the aliens created Tarra as a dumping ground for all their own spiritual beings that they found objectionable in their societies - those who upset their societies: scientists, revolutionaries, artists, great thinkers, and of course criminals. Thus, these three different alien societies dumped these unwanted beings on Tarra, their penal colony, forcing the beings into physical bodies with enough traumas so that the beings could not leave the bodies (until it died), were convinced that they were nothing more than a physical body, and could not remember their previous lives. Stanton and her group reverse all of this over many hundreds of years, drive out the aliens, and develop a therapy to undo this horrific damage to the people, set against the long term evolution of the many societies on Tarra. This is the eighth novel in the Elizabeth Stanton series. Although all is finally calm in the Sea Princes, it is not elsewhere. Ancient prophesies come to the forefront, causing her to take preventative measures. She picks up her new baby body down in one of the newly discovered lands. Not just any baby, the one of which the prophesies claim will become the Empress of Demokritos, the country deigned to soon conquer the entire world, subjugating it to the Emperor's will. This, she cannot allow to happen, it would mean the destruction of everything, including the freeing of all spiritual beings. She does become the foretold Empress. Now she must work behind the scenes to prevent the Emperor from attacking her own family from last lifetime, who live in the Zargarb sector of the Sea Princes. Follow the intricate means by which, though nearly helpless, she manages to salvage the Emperor from his folly and save all of Tarra from being destroyed in massive wars.