Title: Shattered by Fate (Part Two of Fate's Path)
Author: Jacelyn Rye
Release Day: November 22, 2013
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?”
Excerpt:
He
carried her into her room, but paused to use his foot to swing the door
closed behind them. He gently laid her on the bed, pulled his arms
from under her, and kneeled onto the bed. As he brought his body
directly over Sarah’s, she looked up at him, both of their eyes pleading
with the other for permission.
No
words would come. The emotion flooding her body now was something
completely new, yet so unbelievably familiar. It was as if she were
under a spell. A wonderful, scary spell. She reached up to his
shoulders and ran her hands to the back of his head. She gently weaved
her fingers into his hair. Her robe opened slightly with the movement
of her arms. It was time. Time to surrender.
He
moved slowly toward her and stopped just above her waiting mouth.
“Sarah,” he whispered, so quietly that she barely heard. “I’ve dreamt
of this for so long. Please tell me I’m not dreaming, now.”
She
ran her hands through his hair again, and shook her head. “Maybe, it
is all a dream. If it is, I don’t want to wake up. Please,” she said,
as tears filled her eyes, “please, kiss me.”
Copyright Jacelyn Rye
Teaser:
Books in Fate's Path Series:
The books are not stand alone. For your reading enjoyment, please read the books in order.
1--Surrender to Fate
2--Shattered by Fate
The books are not stand alone. For your reading enjoyment, please read the books in order.
1--Surrender to Fate
2--Shattered by Fate
3--Chosen by Fate (Releasing Early 2014)
Book 1:
Surrender to Fate (Part One of Fate's Path) : http://amzn.to/1a5f2Iq
Synopsis:
Some
say fate holds the cards. But what if love deals the hand? No love goes
untested. Ever. Indeed, true love is left to prove itself. And that is
exactly where fate steps in to play the game. For William and Sarah,
that game begins with growing up, in the unspoiled mountains of
Colorado. In a time and space as clear as the Rocky Mountain skies
above, these young souls together learn about life, what matters most,
what endures, what doesn’t, and about love. Innocent young love moves
ever so surely toward lives they both can picture, lives spent loving
each other in a place they know so well and cherish.
Will and Sarah
are ecstatically swept away in the swells of new love. And it is in
their rarefied bliss that they make the fragile promise of first love, a
promise that fate will soon rock and pound into doubt, guilt, and
epiphany.
Unexpected and unprepared, these young lovers are
suddenly torn apart, first by distance, and then by the far greater
pressures of temptation that test the very fidelity of their heart-held
promise. No longer able to console each other, hold each other, touch
each other, they face the inevitable decision: move on to other loves,
or cling to the faith that they will someday be together, again.
Will
and Sarah stare down an unknown path, sensing destiny will not wait
long before it comes to take them. Wracked with doubt, they wonder if
their love was real. Caged by guilt, they both feel tempted by others
intent on stealing their hearts.
Fate plays hardest when love is
tested. And Will and Sarah are no exception, letting go of their happy
past to embrace hope for an uncharted future. Love plays hardest when
fate tests. And so it is, even through their trials of the heart, Will
and Sarah never really stop loving each other. Theirs is a love so real
and pure that each just wants the other to find happiness, even if it's
with another. But fate does not surrender so easily. Dealing blow upon
blow, both Will and Sarah are each struck by jolting events that take
them to the very edge of life, itself.
Sarah and Will hold tightly
to their past, but steadfast promises begin to wane. Life continues,
filled with romance, drama, and two souls yearning to understand the
challenges brought with coming of age, and learning that fate is
ultimately in control. What happens to love when life is on the line?
Can they both relinquish control when love is on the line? Will fate
even allow them to find out?
Author Bio:
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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