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Twenty-six stories, fiction and non-Fiction, some of them prize winning submissions from the writers of the Brampton Writers’ Guild, are featured in this collection.The reason for the universal appeal and charm of a cup of tea. A man is caught in the ravages of the World Trade Centre attack. A long-lost love reappears after many years. The irresistible call of the Four Corners in Brampton. In Colonial India a young boy is caught in the middle of an upheaval while in Canada another suffers the loss of his father. An author gives a poetic tribute to travel around the world. These are some of the stories that make up this compilation.

April, 1914. English Guards Officer, Captain Harry Haig-Mallory, second son of Rear Admiral, the Earl of St Austell, meets the beautiful, young American heiress Athena Fenhagen at the St. George's Day ball at the British Embassy in Washington. The attraction is immediate - and mutual. Three days later they become engaged to be married. At Athena's insistence, the wedding is scheduled for August in the village church in Cornwall where Harry's family has their home.The outbreak of the First World War intervenes. The wedding is postponed, Harry's regiment sets off for France as part of the British Expeditionary Force and Athena returns to her parents' home in Cleveland, Ohio.