Title: Shattered by Fate (Part Two of Fate's
Path)
Author: Jacelyn Rye
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:
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
Our 5 Star Review
I received and ARC of Shattered by Fate as a part of the blog tour.
Holy
hell, thank god Shattered by Fate starts right off from the HUGE
cliffhanger at the ending of Surrender to Fate. I cannot believe the
positions that Sarah and Will are in. My heart is aching for both of
them. Why does fate have to be so nasty? I'm sorry, I'm still grieving
after reading the ending of this book. Why cliffhanger, WHY?? Even
though I am now anxiously awaiting the release of book #3 I think that
Shattered by Fate ended the right way...in suspense and left me fearing
the unknown. Oh my goodness. I don't even know what to say.
Okay, I need to get it together.
Jacelyn
Rye knows how to write emotion, this I am sure. I honestly never
predicted what actually happened in this book. My heart broke for Sarah.
She hardly had anything left, but her memories...Adley and Matty were
sent away to war and Sarah was alone lost in the memories that could be
salvaged. All Sarah had to look forward to was Adley's return so she
could fulfill her promise. Never would she have thought that her past
would come back for her. This changed everything. Her fate, Will's fate.
What would happen now that Sarah and Will have both broke their
promise, "Me Ware Wo," and are in a uncompromisable predicament? Little
did Sarah know that a tragic accident could change the course of her
future and little did Will know that one day he would come home from the
lumberyard to have his past standing before him..Has Will and Sarah's
feeling for each other still present even after all this time? In order
to find out you have to read this amazing story!
Buy Link:
Amazon: http://tinyurl.com/lab74gf
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
3--Chosen by Fate (Releasing Early 2014)
Book 1:
Surrender to Fate (Part One of Fate's Path)
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http://amzn.to/1a5f2Iq
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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