Shattered By Fate - 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?”
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Jacelyn Rye 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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