Synopsis:
One heart cannot remember. Another
heart cannot forget. Both hearts reach toward something to grasp. For Sarah, it
is her past. For Will, it is to bring that past back. The only thing standing
squarely in their way — is their future. Each has promised their heart and life
to another. But where happiness should be, instead are the dark billowing
clouds of a storm of reckoning. The thunder of regret splits a horizon now
raining down upon them in shards of shattered promises and unreachable
memories.
In Book One of this three-part saga, fate
seemed it would not be denied, bringing Sarah and Will together in a turbulent
world, uniting young hearts for the right reason: love. But — almost as if it
has eyes — fate sees to it that no love that is meant to be is allowed to be,
without it being tested to the passionate edges of chance.
Accidents. Small ones are remembered
and retold with a laugh. Useful ones are celebrated. But shattering ones — those are the ones that
slip from the fingers of fate. The kinds that are followed by silence as it
roars the sound of life changing. And it is this pounding drone that Sarah and
Will — once inseparable — now hear when they listen to their hearts.
After her accident, Sarah awakens in a
hospital room and into a very different life. Will, accidentally buried by
heavy timber when he heroically saves a fellow worker, is also delivered into
his own unforeseen, disoriented new life. Destiny’s dust never settles.
And nothing is clear when doubts appear.
Sarah is betrothed to Adley, while Will is engaged to Margaret, yet both are
still connected to each other by an indescribable draw seemingly groping out
from the deepest reaches of fate. A fate that deliberately leaves the door of
temptation cracked open, giving Will a yearning peek at the naked truth of
Sarah, who reaches out with the same tortured passions.
A fate that leaves both to fight the
desperate desires of wanting what each knows they cannot have.
A fate that dares them to ask, “What will
happen if I finally feel you?”
Author Bio:
Jacelyn Rye:
Jacelyn
Rye is many things. She can be as alluring as the love that flows from
her pen: pure, honest, simple. But then, like a storm that suddenly
appears over the mountain, she can also have you running for shelter
where there’s no place to hide. Like life, itself, Jacelyn delivers the
hard with the soft, the pain with the joy, the instant with the forever.
All of it, for a reason. And it’s there that one can best enter her
life.
“I
believe in signs, I believe everything happens for a reason,” she’ll
tell you. If you know someone like that, you already know a primal piece
of Jacelyn — a person who actually listens to the Universe because
there, she knows she’ll find more than answers, she’ll find reasons. And
those reasons give her insights about nature, and human nature, both of
which she invites us to explore with her.
Growing
up in the blue sky country of Colorado doesn’t leave an impression, it
becomes a lifeblood. For Jacelyn, the clarity of that truth flows
through her stories, her characters and her inherent spirituality that
somehow knows faith, in the end, triumphs over despair.
Through
her storytelling — firmly stimulated by that early country life that
taught her to always be prepared when venturing forth — Jacelyn’s
uncanny ability to “see” what could happen takes readers into a crystal
ball where the future’s many possible outcomes await in a swirl of
incandescence, right down to the details of smell, touch, fear, love.
Because
life also presents its possibilities in dreams, Jacelyn holds dear that
open door. “My dreams mean a lot to me. I listen to them, solve
problems in them, learn from them,” she confides. It figures, then, that
when you read her stories, you’d best get ready for a trip with an
original dream weaver.
And
then, there’s serendipity. To know Jacelyn is to accept a dance with
chance. She accepted one such chance when she moved from her beloved
Colorado to an unknown life awaiting her in Southern California, where
she lives today. “I knew another beautiful world was out there. I was
ready for adventure,” she says, with the confidence that proves her
faith is more than just words. “I moved from Colorado as soon as I
graduated from college, thanks to a great job offer. The night after I
received my job offer, I saw a commercial that said, ‘California, find
yourself here.’ In that moment, I stopped debating the move and took it
as a sign that my adventure would be found in California.”
As
Jacelyn does so well, she shares those adventures in her writing. In
her first book series, you’ll find Jacelyn’s experiences of this major
life change play out in Sarah, who also moves from Colorado to
California. “What I’ve seen and felt enable me to write realistically
about how a Colorado mountain girl feels about living in California.”
In
the quiet mornings, you’ll find Jacelyn savoring her coffee, outside.
To her, it’s all about listening, breathing in, appreciating being here
for another day. And of course, there’s time spent in the mountains,
fishing, wading in creeks with the people she loves. Curiously, this
girl who comes from the mile-high mountains, still fears the miles-deep
ocean she frequently visits, but only to sink her toes in the hot sand
and watch, in awe and respect, the thundering surf.
On
any given day, be it in the mountains, at the beach, or on her terrace,
Jacelyn is dreaming and writing, her way of sharing something
meaningful with those who come to know her.
One
thing is for sure, wherever she goes, wherever she’s been, Jacelyn is
aware and thankful for the gifts around her. Indeed, although she does
not get back to Colorado that often, she’s there in spirit, and in
absolute detail, in a moment’s call. “The smells, the sound aspen leaves
make when the wind asks them to dance, how tall pines gently sway back
and forth against a backdrop of the bluest blue I’ve ever known.” That’s
someone who takes it all in, who takes it all with her, and who offers
it to everyone who opens her books.
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