Marvelous Secrets is a collection of upbeat/honest short stories, sometimes humorous, always heart-felt, in voices of characters dealing with relationships and personal intents that lead to new private discoveries.       This book designed to be a “gift package of stories.” In this collection of stories-sometimes humorous, always heart felt-a variety of characters deal with relationships and personal intents that lead to new private discoveries. Protagonist of "Marvelous Secrets" is a moribund wife who begins to wake up when the TV starts talking back . In "Waiting at the Matterhorn," a young wife is counting on "something wonderful happening" during a bus tour through Switzerland that might solve the problem with her uptight, unromantic husband. A shopkeeper in a mountain village, rich with "Local Color" to outsiders, is determined to save the town square, threatened with change. In "Homecoming," a woman retired after a busy working life, seeks to break the impasse between herself and the grown daughter ...only to make a new discovery about retirement.