When faced with a sudden and unexpected crisis, when faced with a death of a child, where your whole life is changed forever, where interacting with life is a huge challenge, where everyday matters are difficult to cope with and life seems insurmountable, how does one go on? How does one gather the strength and the courage to pick up the pieces of a shattered life?

This book is the story of a mother's journey in a sudden and dramatic crisis-a descent into darkness and the journey back into the" light." It is a journey of hope, love, survival, self-empowerment, and healing. It is a journey she hopes will inspire and uplift all who have lost a child or a loved one. She discovers that her children are still ""alive"" in their spiritual bodies-dead to this world but "alive as shining lights" in the evening sky.