Author: Jacelyn Rye
Series: Fate's Path, #3
Genre: New Adult|Historical Romance
Genre: New Adult|Historical Romance
~ SYNOPSIS ~
Chosen. By its very essence, the word chosen is one of finality. What you’ve chosen becomes your destiny. Unless, by chance, fate has chosen otherwise. But choice is a double edged sword, as Will and Sarah find out when it cuts their lives into ever more hard to assemble pieces.What was the point of hoping, planning, dreaming? What was the point of loving? It could all be taken, and for Will, it had been. Helplessly bound by his obligations, he watches the love of his life drifting slowly, irretrievably away. How can keeping his promise to Sarah, and keeping his vow to do anything to protect his family come to this? How can such love summon such pain?
As fate would have it, Sarah is asking herself that very same question. As she struggles to escape the ether ties of amnesia, she gropes the dark corners of her heart, trying to grasp something solid, something to hold. But life is forcing Sarah to seek the very answers she fears most. Can there be something even more powerful than love? Putting a thousand-piece puzzle together through her dark days of forgetfulness, Sarah slowly snaps one faintly matched memory into place after another, as a familiar picture slowly begins to emerge from the foggy past. And the more her memories creep back in, bringing with them a desire smoldering just beneath the surface of her shattered life, she begins to realize the question that has taunted her for so long, is upon her again. Will, or Adley?
Both Will and Sarah share their hopeless closeness as their choices lead them ever further apart. What they’ve chosen for themselves involves others, and promises made have overgrown the road behind them. If there is no going back, the only way forward is straight through the gates of fate.
As they enter, deep family secrets explode from the shadows of their pasts, secrets that cut so deeply, no one will ever be the same, no one will ever forget, and ever-lurking death will snatch its due. Neither Will nor Sarah ever had a chance to choose. Fate had chosen their path long ago. And now, fate has brought them to their final destination. Will they choose to accept it? Do they even have a choice?
This is book three of the New Adult Romance Series: Fate's Path.
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
Recommended for 18+ for new adult content and explicit scenes. If you love steamy coming of age and unique historical romance novels that spin an emotional story all around you, scroll up and add this love story to your kindle now!
~ REVIEW ~
5 Stars!
“You’re
going to be mine. Forever.”
“Do you
promise?” She whispered.
He nodded
as he leaned down to her mouth. “I promise.”
Heartfelt. Beautiful. Perfect.
#HEA Readers, you HAVE to buy this book. Have to. I will start right
off with THAT. Ohmygosh. So
much emotion!!! Chosen by Fate
was an exquisitely written story about TRUE love finding its way…..about
soulmates fighting to be together for once and for all. This entire series got
deep into my heart to the point where I KNOW I will never forget these
characters or their story. Jacelyn Rye nailed it!
If you haven’t read the first
two books in this series, STOP READING HERE. All three books must be read in
order, so again, STOP reading here.
STOP.
STOP.
“Fate
would make sure it got its way one way or another.”
After THAT ending in book two, Shattered
by Fate, I could NOT get my hands on this
book fast enough. I’ve ALWAYS been #TeamWill, but dammit, Adley sure made it DAMN HARD to not love him as well. So
again, THAT ending left me gasping, desperately wanting to know what the heck
would happen next!!
Amazingly enough, this third book started right where book two ended,
and as soon as I started reading, ALL the emotions I felt when reading Shattered by Fate came crashing upon me
once again. I was back in that heart-stopping scene. Brilliant.
“Will or
Adley? Now, the question was upon her again.”
Not leaving Colorado meant a lot of things for Sarah – whether she
realized it or not – and by being there, Fate played her game exceptionally
well. We saw Sarah go back and forth in her head trying to remember what her
life had once been. We saw her heartbroken more than a few times trying to
analyze every emotion, every flashback, and every step she took. She was desperately
trying to figure everything out; trying to make sense of all the heartache
she’d been dealt. And trust me, it was A LOT. Hell, I was emotionally confused!
Thing is, Jacelyn Rye’s writing style is so amazingly fantastic that it
evoked ALL types of emotions from me. My heart ached, raced, and broke for
Sarah and her situation. I was
anxious, nervous, LIVID (ahem, Margaret), and at times, down-right giddy and
elated. I was in one hell of an emotional roller coaster and I loved every
minute of it.
“What
couldn’t be disputed was that her heart had come to depend on him so greatly,
that Sarah half wondered if it would stop beating if she didn’t go to him and
fast.”
Now, I’m keeping this review spoiler
free, so I won’t go into any of the juicy
details, but just imagine having to deal with everything Sarah had gone through and on top of it all, trying to
answer the most important question of all……
Will or Adley?
This book had me seriously HOOKED. For the life of me, I could NOT stop
reading. Yep. It’s THAT good. It was captivating, emotional, BEAUTIFUL,
profound…..sigh. I can keep going all day saying how good this book was, but
you really need to read it and find out for yourself. Jacelyn Rye is the queen
of Historical Romance and I applaud her for this PHENOMENAL series. FIVE BRILLIANT STARS!
“…the
heartstrings that connect us to the people we love can never be broken, no matter
the time or distance that separate us.”
~ PURCHASE ~
~ Fate's Path Series ~
SURRENDER TO FATE
~ PURCHASE ~
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?
~ PURCHASE ~
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?”
★ Read my review ➜ here
~ ABOUT THE AUTHOR ~
Jacelyn Rye
“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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I just love this Series. Jacelyn is one of my favorite. Great review and yes I shared it every where
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