The Road Less Traveled: A Collection of Short Stories - 9781475992465

The Road Less Traveled, a collection of eight short stories by Rochelle Hamel, focuses on a core of familiar themes as it explores the importance of community, the value of romantic love, the significance of family relationships, and the hardship of loss.

The story "The House by the Road" features Jessie, a runaway teen who strikes up an unlikely relationship with a feisty elderly woman. In "Call Me Ali," a pampered wife is the only survivor of a plane crash, and in the wilds of Canada she discovers her inner strength and grit. "Mackenzie Lewis" tells the story of a widow who faces the difficult to decision to save a family heritage in a modern-day business world. In "Winter of Content," Claire, a Manhattan lawyer, experiences the blizzards in the mountains of Montana.

The collection follows the emotional journeys of women of different ages who discover an inner strength as they face an unknown future. All have chosen the road less traveled-a decision that changes their lives forever.