The Road Less Traveled

About the Book

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.

About the Author

Rochelle Hamel earned a degree in information systems and a national fellowship from the Life Management Institute. Her life journey has included nursing school, modeling, and working as a landscape artist. Hamel and her husband, Dr. John Hamel, have four children and live in upstate New York. This is her second book; she is also the author of a Civil War novel titled The Darkness of the Day.