Hope, memory, love lost, and love regained are the major themes that thread their way through this easily read collection of short stories. Ranging in topic from a tale of a young woman who finds from a stranger the courage she never thought she had, to a portrait of a bride-to-be who is forced to choose between two loves, the sensitively written offerings portray a kaleidoscope of human emotions that will touch the hearts of  readers and may even provide some bibliotherapy to those for which a familiar situation, event, or emotion is evoked.