Mythical Books: Guest Post and Giveaway: Between The Trees (Chastity Point, #2) by M.E. Yildirim

Cover Artist: Gözdem Perrichet

Description:

Ciarán Blane had always been a soldier. It was the only way of life he knew. But he hadn't been an average warrior, since he was not even an ordinary man to begin with. He was something more than human, carrying a wild beast within, akin to a werewolf-like creature straight from legends and myths...

Except he was very real.

Ciarán was a highly trained sniper who was sent into the thick of the fray, when basic human senses were failing. He was also an executioner for his own kind, when they lost all semblance of a civilized being and had gone rogue. After years of dealing in death, he was on the cusp of losing his own humanity in favor to his ferocious nature. And once that happened, nothing but death awaited him...

Danielle Kendrick had planned her whole life up to the smallest detail, only to helplessly watch all her dreams and hopes unravel and crumple at her feet. All of it being merely the outcome of one catastrophic moment, when the truth had been revealed in all its ugly glory. Not the truth about her, but her older brother, who turned out to be a far cry from the person everybody thought he was.

After his death, all his sins fell on Dani's shoulders, in the blink of an eye costing her the loss of family, friends, a house and a dream career. But fate was not yet done with her and kept testing her by placing more challenges in her way. Was Ciarán going to be one of too many and her final downfall at once?

Being the mate to a savage alpha male would be hard enough but he was the very person, who was the catalyst behind her life falling apart. Was Danielle going to be able see past that and trust the intimidating man, who seemed to be nothing more than a hardened killer, possessing the same traits she despised in her own brother?

Will she turn her back on Ciarán and by doing that, damn them both?

Was a dominant male, used to having his way in every aspect of life, be able to rein in his primal instinct for a love he doesn't believe in? Or does the hunter turn into the very thing he hated and become the prey instead?

GUEST POST

An acceptable Alpha Man

An Alpha Male, a real man, a man’s man, a warrior, a stand-up guy. There are plenty names we can come up to try and express more or less the same thing. Yet what does it mean in reality? No matter how many names we will come up with while describing the essence behind these enigmatic and elusive words, it is still not so easy to grasp it.

In the animal kingdom, the alpha male of the pack is the most aggressive and courageous one. In a man's world most guys dream of being an alpha but they take it too literally, identifying it with brute strength and not strength of character instead.

Contrary to some beliefs an alpha male is not the Neanderthal type, but a man who evolved. A man who takes the natural competitive drive inherent in the masculine psyche and directs it toward accomplishing of great things, rather than wastes it on trying to prove he is the best in every possible meaning by engaging himself in some kind of petty competition.

Because in the end it's easy to blur the boundaries and push it too hard, turning an alpha into a reversed version who is displaying only negative traits.

An alpha male is always a leader. He doesn’t try to be one, he instinctively takes the lead when the circumstances arrive his way. He can be cocky but it doesn't sprout from the need to put others down to elevate himself, not trying to hide his deeper insecurities under his macho attitude. It's more about a true confidence, an honest assessment of his strengths and yes... realizing and accepting he has weaknesses as everyone else.

He has the will to win, and will do anything it takes as long as he gets what he wants. He always tries to be the last man standing. But again, it's easy to take it one step too far and harm someone in the process in this blind race to get a desired result. He is charismatic but it is not the same as charming. He should be focused on his goals, not trying to win a contest and become Mister Popular.

He doesn’t shy away from challenges. In fact, he always goes looking for challenges. Problems can arose when he starts to perceive literally everything as a challenge and tries to use them as excuse to fight.

An alpha male doesn’t follow rules but it is not the same as breaking them just for the hell of it. He paves his own path whenever he sees an opportunity, almost always making his own fortune using his own means. He is smart, be it street smart or book smart. Stupidity is not a rewarding quality.

He is protective and always aware of his surroundings. He knows what he's doing and approaches his goals with a reckless, yet calculative mind. There is nothing sexy about a man who is just reckless and has no clue what he is doing. An alpha male doesn't care what others think of him. People who spend too much time worrying over other people's opinions are losing focus and don't really achieve anything in the end.

He is a solution finder and a dependable kind of man. Warning; dependable doesn't equal boring!

To summarize it all an alpha male writes his own fate, he doesn't have much use for destiny. He believes that most if not all events in his life are nothing but a result of his own actions. An alpha can be arrogant, unapologetic and hell-bent on getting whatever he wants but he seems to have a lot of redeeming qualities as well. Maybe it is not easy to find one but it is also not a picnic to live with one. It can be rewarding but it takes a special kind of woman to handle this kind of a wild ride. It is a different matter for another occasion though...

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About the author:

M.E. Yildirim is a Public Relations specialist from Poland who is confident Satan himself created math and that the world needs more bookworms to balance the evil out. Her mother is the one who had inculcated in her respect and love for written stories and taught her not to judge a book by its cover. She lives with head full of voices which won't be silenced until she lets them out to live and spin their tales on paper. That's right-their tales, since they seem to have a mind and will of their own. Walking through life to the beat of her own drum, she has worked in a PR Agency, small companies, a big consortium and even in the Military. But none of it could ever compare to the adventures of creating and building up her characters and stories. M.E. believes that books are for smoothing out everyone's feathers and reminding people all the things they've already forgotten. She is happily married, oftentimes engaging her husband in her writing, with or without his consent. Tenacious as much as the characters she creates, she loves challenges, letting her own creations to take advantage of that fact.