A Thousand Candles Author:Helene Palmer, H.J. Palmer Where do we come from? — Where do we fall? — What do we search for? LOVE — That creates joys and tears — To carry us back to — Where it all began. A THOUSAND CANDLES is the story of Daria Hunter as she follows her dream to the Pacific Coast to escape conventional life in her hometown. Pearl Harbor brings the reality of war; its tentacles reaching ... more »out to pull airplanes from the sky, sink ships, turn mythical islands into battlegrounds and cliffs into challenging barriers. Daria waits on the home front, caught in a web of friendship, emotional hellos and good-byes and a passion that catapults her beyond earth's boundaries to discover her flaws, frailties and fantasies. A THOUSAND CANDLES will bring forth joy and tears to celebrate a love few may ever feel while renewing flames of hope that life is out there, waiting to be lived, if one listens to their heart. I looked into his eyes and saw the invisible force that bonds a pilot to his airplane. He was flying up into the sky far above the clouds that screened my vision. I was standing on the ground praying, hoping that he would come back to me. I looked across the table consuming every crevice of his face, the passion reflected in his eyes and the lips I had never felt on mine. I looked down. "I'm glad you like it so much." His fingers gently lifted my chin. For a moment I was in the backseat of his convertible when our eyes had connected briefly in the rear view mirror. Now his eyes probed deeper. "Daria, remember when I wrote to you that I think of you as Hanna? Promise me, you'll always be flying beside me." Like a propeller spinning through the air, suddenly my heart was soaring. "Yes. Yes."« less