Diaries of the Heart: Laced with Joy and Pain is a collection of short stories that I wrote for a few anthologies. Although, several of these stories have been previously printed; the goal is to combine them all into one book. The themes of the stories may be similar the message, however, is different. Every woman has a diary in her heart and like most diaries, well life in general, it is not filled with just love and joy but also with pain. Witness the love, joy and pain in the lives of Draya, Danai, Sariyah and Paige as they seek to discover what love really is!