Title: Surrender to Fate (Fate’s Path #1)
New Adult Romance 18+
Publication Date: September 17, 2013
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My Review
From the moment I began reading, I fell in love with this novel. I casually accepted this novel agreeing to give it a place on my blog simply because it was set in my home state of Colorado. What I didn't expect was to add it to my favorites list.
This novel opens with vivid imagery of the beautiful Colorado Rocky Mountains that you can see, smell, and feel as Sarah interacts with the forest. Instantly, her love story is presented in her lifelong friend Will. They are innocent in the way first love always is and make promises of forever. Reading their story is like a glimpse into my own memories of my first love.
Then, Sarah is forced to move away.
This wouldn't be so bad in our modern time with easy access to phones and email, but this novel is set in the late thirties and our young lovers must communicate through letters. Letters that may or may not get delivered.
As the time goes on and both feel the other has moved on, they too move on with their lives, creating a whole new set if romantic story lines for our lovers separated by miles. Unlike many novels, Rye builds a world full of characters that are developed and add to the story instead of writing the love story within a bubble. We have Sarah and Wills families, as well as a whole new family in Sarah new home of California.
The book ends abruptly after two major incidents. It then gives you a taste of part two which I have to say, sounds pretty amazing as well thought out. I absolutely cannot wait to read more and find out which romantic scenario wins out.
Rye is a talented author who has engaged all of the senses while making the reader fall in love with her characters as if they were the readers own loved ones. I held my breathe for them, mourned for their loses, laughed at their innocence, and am praying for their well being in the installment yet to come.
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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