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7 Secrets Behind The Surrender Trilogy
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Today
Lydia Michaels is here to discuss Seven Secrets Behind The Surrender Trilogy, a sizzling love story full of scandalous
choices, dark deceptions, and secret sacrifices that will have readers staying
up far past your bedtime.
The
question is… How deep do you want to go?
It’s a pleasure to be here discussing the
debut of The Surrender Trilogy. FALLING IN, BREAKING OUT, and COMING HOME are
three books guaranteed to take readers on an evocative journey full of seduction,
sophistication, and surrender.
7 Untold Secrets Behind The Surrender Trilogy
By
Lydia Michaels
1. The Symbolism of Scout
Scout’s character came to me
first as only a word. She was heroine. I’d
thought long and hard about books I’d read and the realism of the protagonists
I loved.
Born on the streets of
Folsom, to a parent who is a mother in word only, Scout is constrained by no
rules, yet lives her life by a specific code of survival. She is a compilation
of so many imperfect strengths female leads have conveyed in literature over
the years.
Scout possesses the
independent strength of Jane Eyre. She is the dignity hidden within Hester
Prynne. Steeped in innocence regarding social hypocrisies, she is charmingly
childlike in her belief that circumstances and people can change, much like
Jean Louise Finch, better known as To
Kill a Mockingbird’s “Scout”. But above all, Scout is seeking her way home,
somewhere she has yet to truly define. She is Dorothy Gale’s sweetness, lost in
a spectacular world that is not her own. Unintended, loyal, and determined, she
is the strong wind that takes Lucian Patras unexpectedly by storm.
2. A Look at Lucian
Lucian Patras appears to have
everything, until he meets Evelyn “Scout” Keats. He is Folsom’s most celebrated
bachelor, wealthy, sexy, a devil to face off against in business. But he’s also
incredibly private when it comes to his personal life. As a man in his mid
thirties, he’s quite aware his presence is sought after for personal gain, part
of the reason he’s grown jaded with the world. He wants a companion to intellectually
challenge him, someone capable of giving it to him straight. But nothing
prepares him for the dose of reality he must swallow once his life becomes
tangled up with Evelyn “Scout” Keats.
3. Pieces of Pearl
Pearl, Scout’s mother, is a
lost soul in carbon form. Her mind is a jigsaw, pieces of the past broken into
jagged memories, distorted by drugs and abuse, but she is the only person Scout
has ever loved. An anchor around her daughter’s neck, every time Scout rises
from the bottomless depths of poverty, Pearl pulls her back under. In order for
Scout to survive, she must save her mother first.
4. The Challenge of Chess
Chess is a cerebral struggle
over another’s ego. The central figure is the King. He is indispensible.
Narcissism will only lead to a corrupt King. He must never forget—the Queen
holds far more power.
Chess is a lyrical battle of
the mind, provoked by patient acts of aggression. Lucian Patras is a master of
chess, favoring the intellectual sparring over traditional sport. He savors
seeing his opponents gracefully surrender, and refers to the game as a
triumphant display of social intercourse.
Once you read The Surrender
Trilogy, you will never look at chess the same way again.
5. Playing with Pawns
Pawns are the players of the story,
the characters of the board. There are the traditional pawns, those maneuvered
to protect the King and Queen, and then there are the more cunning pawns. There
are the voyeurs, better known as the rooks, the manipulators or bishops, and
let us not overlook the slyest piece of all, the knight. Should the King
underestimate the other players on the board—he will quickly find himself in
check.
6. Underestimating the
Underdog
Parker Hughes is quiet, poor,
and disinterested in the lavish treasures of the world. He covets only one
thing, but she has suddenly changed the rules of the game. When Parker
discovers Scout’s intentions involving billionaire Lucian Patras, he must
embrace his shrewder side. He loved her first and thereby considers her his,
but taking from a King is never easy, especially when the Queen holds all the
power. Therefore, Parker puts his patience into practice and becomes the Dark Knight.
7. The Cost of Surrender
Relinquishing control can be a
difficult task. Throughout The Surrender Trilogy, one is never quite sure which
character is making the greater sacrifice. Scout is asked to submit to the
authority of a man she barely knows and hardly understands, yet through a turn
of twisted events Lucian is faced with choices that inflame his desire to
possess such a woman.
Surrender, in its purest form,
is done gracefully, selflessly, and delivered of one’s free will. FALLING IN
love is never as simple as it seems. The constricting sense of need can
sometimes provoke the urge to escape, but BREAKING OUT is not always the
answer. It takes a genuine understanding of surrender to grasp what it means to
ultimately be COMING HOME.
COMING
HOME, the conclusion of The Surrender Trilogy reaches readers January 21, 2014!
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