Happy Release Day to 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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