Author, Elizabeth Stevens, is new to the fiction genre. A journalist by nature, she has recorded at length, her two most difficult experiences, a divorce after years of marriage and the recent journey she and her second husband took as he was dying of cancer. Here, in KIYOMI, she brings to life characters loosely created from a relationship she had between those two episodes in her life. Hopefully, her recent move from the New York suburbs to North Carolina's coastal area will bring new ideas for the development of characters waiting to be discovered. Her enthusiasm for writing will surely be