When Fate Gave Us Different Answers

Maeve Hawthorne believes in facts.As a researcher trained to trust logic, probability, and measurable evidence, she has little patience for superstition or ancient divination. Fate, to Maeve, is simply another word people use when they cannot explain what happens.Then she meets Silas Crawford.Their first encounter at an I Ching study group produces an impossible reaction. The moment they touch, Maeve experiences a powerful sense of recognition-as though she has known Silas long before they ever met. Unable to dismiss what happened, she agrees to cast the I Ching with him.The result is Hexagram 28: The Great Exceeding.Its image is disturbing-a great ridgepole bending beneath an unbearable weight. Their teacher, the enigmatic Valerian Ravenscroft, gives them an even darker warning:Death follows union.Maeve refuses to believe that love could be controlled by an ancient prediction. But when Jace Holloway uncovers records from 1924, the past begins to mirror the present. The documents tell the story of Evelyn and Julian, two people whose love ended in betrayal and tragedy. The parallels between their lives and Maeve and Silas become impossible to ignore.Could Maeve and Silas be repeating a story that began a century ago?And if fate has already written their ending, can they change it?As Maeve searches for answers, she discovers that the prophecy may not mean literal death. Perhaps what must die is something within her-the fear, control, and identity that have prevented her from truly choosing her own life.For the first time, Maeve must face a possibility more frightening than any prediction: fate may not be something to understand, but something to challenge.When Fate Gave Us Different Answers is a romantic, mystical story about reincarnation, destiny, free will, and the courage to choose love when the universe refuses to provide certainty. Sometimes the greatest answer fate can give is the chance to write a different ending.