novella descriptions

Brief book notes:

Dusty Roads:  
  We think we are creating our lives with choices we make. Yet mixed with who we are at our cores, are colorful past experiences and memories that may distort our ability to choose more wisely. Why we behave the way we do can come from fear as well as happiness. Knowledge of both experiences lies within.
  In Dusty Roads, as Jane's salary shrinks to commissions only, she returns to live on the family's country homestead. In the attic, she finds her grandmother's diary; its words allow her deeper understanding of life's river of experiences, as her past hidden fears begin to ebb up for resolution. Life and her heart press her forward as she chooses to feel strength, understanding, and perhaps love.

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Hope After Heartbreak:
  The darkness of night gives rest to some and restless dreams to others.
                           
  Twenty-five year old Danielle flees her small hometown and moves to New York City after her heart feels broken-again. Her goal is unclear.  Will she lose herself, as her pain chooses death.  Or choose life again?
  She struggles as a small voice of hope within encourages her to think and try. She has to choose sides between the opposing senses--determination and encouragement, or pain and fear.
  Her life begins to change after a dream shows her the wolf who helps her spirit feel hope and strength to live. Other dreams reveal her pain and progress, and allow her to think through what she wants.

  Life is a choice, and the signs are all around to help. One just has to listen, feel, and explore. 

Silver Memories:
    A beautiful part of living is being present with those you love. But what happens if what you thought was love becomes realized as only companionship without depth, and there is a lack of dedication to self?  Do you stay? Or leave?  
And what happens if a relationship of known love is lost? How may one heal?
                                                                   
Forty-year-old Celia has choices to make. Her marriage to her teenage sweetheart for over twenty years feels lifeless to her. She has rolled gently within the years, but now is finding she wants more. She wonders what she has done with her life, outside her comfortable roles of wife, mother, and teacher.
She wonders whether to stay, or leave and explore her life.

Life does not give Celia clear pathways...In the midst of her changes, she experiences other events which bring sadness and tragedy to overcome. How she survives and learns to thrive again with Life's different pulls is in a journey of moments and decisions.