Shattered by Fate
(Fate's Path #2)
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?”
Review
5 Stars!
Emotional angst at its
finest!! OMG…this book!!!! After finishing Shattered by Fate, I literally just sat
there, like an imbecile, staring at my iPad, reeling from every emotion it
evoked from me… True story. Jacelyn Rye is an incredible writer! HUGE fan of
hers!
“He loved her enough to give her back her
past.”
The plot continued right where book one, Surrender to Fate, ended. With two
unfortunate accidents. Quickly thereafter, we got the first ‘oh, crap’ moment. My exact thought was: ‘Well, this certainly complicates things…’ And
sure enough, it did! How could Sarah keep a promise her heart was no longer
able to remember? Trust me, prepare yourself for an angst-driven book. Sarah’s
journey was far from easy. Being the fantastic writer that she is, Jacelyn Rye,
made me feel every single event that
occurred in this book. I was right there
with Sarah….. and Will. *Sigh*
“If there was anything left still tying him to
Sarah, he was certain this night dissolved it.”
Will and Sarah. My heart ached for them!!!!! Their situation
was so heartbreaking, yet at the same time, I couldn’t help but hold on to the hope
that everything would magically work out in the end. Their love ran SO deep
that it brought them together, even when life stood firmly in the way. Will
never thought he’d see Sarah again. Imagine his shock, when he found out she
was not only back in Colorado, but now, living under the same roof as him. Gosh…the
pain he felt when he found out why she had returned. Heart, meet floor.
“Losing someone, only to have them return to
you, was not something he was prepared to treat lightly.”
Fate had a funny way of intervening. Talk about bad
timing!!! Will was engaged to SATAN, I mean, Margaret, and Sarah was to Adley
(oh, Adley – my heart swoons for him). Finally, Will and Sarah were
together….yet, not…at all. But really, when something is
worth having, when is it ever easily acquired?
This is how I saw Will and Sarah. They had one heck of a journey ahead
of them, but they deserved each other. Yes, they each had promised their love
to another person, but you could just tell they were soulmates. I
felt it in my gut. They were meant
to be. As simple as that. Their interactions throughout the book were more
than enough proof of this.
“He could see that he was just a pawn in
fate’s twisted book.”
Yeah… fate was a bitch. Enter SATAN -- dammit, I mean, Margaret. Mar-gah-ret. Omg!!! HOW MUCH
CAN YOU HATE A CHARACTER!!!???? Because clearly, I loathed Margaret!!!!!! Like,
I literally wanted to strangle her! Ugh! She had zero redeeming qualities and just… ggggrrrr. I HATE her. She kept making an already complicated
situation even MORE difficult!!! *deep cleansing breath before I die from a
stroke*
“…he would have to survive losing her again,
to fate’s will.”
And then, we had Adley. My heart broke for him, too. I loved
him since book one which is why I felt so bad wanting Sarah to work things out
with Will. And to make things worse, the guy can melt the panties off
anyone!!!!!
“Sarah,” he began, running his finger along
her cheek. He shook his head and looked at her in amazement, “You are even more
beautiful that I remember.” - Adley
Shattered by Fate is
filled with so much emotion from
beginning to end, that it literally made my heart ache, break, swoon, and beat
so fast I could hear it! I was so
scared of reading on yet, even if my life depended on it, I could not put the
book down. This was a phenomenal story,
beautifully written.
Towards the end, I was anxious, nervous, and excited all at
once! And then, shit hit the fan, my jaw met the floor, and my eyes popped out
of my head! Jacelyn Rye did a marvelous job with the ending, let me tell you.
Yes, it ends in a CLIFFHANGER, but
that was to be expected since this book is part 2 of 3. Yes, I NEED that third book, but I honestly
loved the ending. It left me desperately wanting more. I highly recommend this book!!
“Sometimes in life, we can choose our path.
Other times, fate chooses for us.”
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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
Teasers!
Fate's Path
Surrender to Fate
(Fate's Path, Book 1)
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?
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Part Three: Chosen by Fate -- Coming early 2014
About the Author:
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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