In this memoir, author Diane Marie Taylor details her current life and how she identified with one singular life among the many lives she has lived before.

Taylor relates her life in this existence as the child of an emotionally needy mother and rage-aholic father. A divorced single mother and dealer in Las Vegas, she writes that she was born a medium, self-identifies as an empath, was recently diagnosed bipolar, and is a master student of Reiki, the energetic healing technique. Desperate to understand why an intense post-divorce romance went sour, she engages a psychic to delve into her past lives.

Taylor is convinced she was the daughter of Marie Antoinette, Marie-Thérѐse Charlotte. Biographies of Marie-Thérѐse, Hollywood films of Marie Antoinette, and Internet research help her establish a connection (such as their birthdays being four days apart in December). A tarot reading suggests her mother was accused of stealing jewels, a reference she connects to a real-life scandal of Marie Antoinette’s. She sees a resemblance, physical and psychological, between many of the people in her life now and those of her previous self 300 years ago. She shares her personal story to introduce readers to the spiritual concepts of soul mates, Reiki, the Akashic Records, reincarnation, and more.

Taylor is a candid, colorful truthteller about her struggles in this life and those of Marie-Thérѐse during the French Revolution. While her case for having been the princess seems built on thin ice, her journey to her own truth could be helpful to seekers interested in why we connect instantly and intensely to certain people, how we choose each new life to build on and heal from past lives, and how to live this life authentically, without falling victim to societal conditioning.

The focus is not on spiritual concepts, per se, but the book succeeds as one woman’s determination to understand herself and her relationships in all their messy, relatable contradictions.

Also available as an ebook.