title: Surrender to Fate: Part 1 of Fate's Path
author:  Jacelyn Rye 
description: 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 theres 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 its there that one can best enter her life. Growing up in the blue sky country of Colorado doesnt 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. And then, theres 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 happily lives today. In the quiet mornings, youll find Jacelyn savoring her coffee, outside. To her, its all about listening, breathing in, appreciating being here for another day. And of course, theres 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 through her stories.
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  The More I See You
  
  
  By Lynn Kurland
  
  
  I have you fast in my fortress, And will not let you depart, But put you down
  into the dungeon
  
  
  In the round-tower of my heart.
  
  
  And there will I keep you forever,
  
  
  Yes, forever and a day, Till the walls shall crumble to ruin, And moulder in
  the dust away!
  
  
  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  
  
  I
  
  
  Jessica Blakely didn't believe in Fate.
  
  
  Yet as she stood at the top of a medieval circular staircase and peered down
  into its gloomy depths, she had tc wonder if someone other than herself might
  be at the heirr of her ship, as it were. Things were definitely not
  progressing as she had planned. Surely Fate had known she wasn't at all
  interested in stark, bare castles or knights in rusting armor.
  
  
  Surely. She took a deep breath and forced herself to examine the turns of
  events that had brought her to her preseni perch. Things had seemed so logical
  at the time. She'd gone on a blind date, accepted said blind date's invitation
  to go to Engla