In the spirit of my favorite genre of music, solo piano music from the Romantic era (1820 to 1900), I have composed an album of piano nocturnes, which are traditionally expressive and evocative of intimacy or melancholy. Defined by their mood and texture, and not by their strict structural form, my 12 nocturnes delve deep into the emotions associated with extreme trauma and torture, the thawing-out period sometime after the abuse, and the healing process that leads to a person actually finding their unique self.