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Eighteen-year old Jaycie Lerner’s telekinesis is finally in check—too bad levitating a picnic table is now a workout. Not to mention her previously dormant telepathy is back and raging out of control. As she struggles to relearn her frightening power, the Dey-Vah announce they will soon unleash the supernatural world on the human race. To make matters worse, people start dropping dead all over northern Alabama. Then, a mysterious new enemy emerges. Jaycie must elicit the help of the world’s only master vampire slayer and an assassin who gets her tips from the voices in her head. Strengthening the Core is the only way to protect mankind from the coming vampire army, and they aren’t even the most dangerous threat. Jaycie and her family face their darkest hour when an innocent young girl serves as a pawn to form a deadly Alliance. The perfect vampire, Lilith Bradshaw, becomes an eye-opening example of how far the Alliance will go to serve their own destructive ends. The world around Jaycie steeps into darkness, and betrayals from the past threaten to undo them all.

“Jaycie Lerner,” a girl’s high, singsong voice called out. “I don’t want you to die tonight.” When the girl laughed, it sounded like silver bells. Jaycie spun around, seeing the petite vampire’s blonde hair even in the darkness. She knew she was going to have to kill this girl. She let an energy blast rip from her body. Her power knocked Lilith backward. The ground quaked. An alien panic dug into Jaycie’s head. She gritted her teeth. Focus! she ordered, trying to fight the emotion. Cut off her brain waves! She flew across the clearing after Lilith, willing herself not to unleash another energy blast on the vampire – she’d only absorb it and gain more power. The trees in the clearing crashed to the ground all around them as Jaycie tried to shake off the terror assaulting her mind. She cornered the vampire. Another wave of terror hit her. Strong arms grasped her from behind. A sharp pain dug into her neck. Something icy from the injection stilled her blood. Her body went limp and lifeless, suspended in the arms of the man who attacked her. As her vision tunneled, she fell unconscious.

The writing is fast paced, easy to read and witty as hell. The characters are lovable and their interactions are some of the best I’ve read. The heat between Matt and Jaycie is scorching hot-My Neurotic Book Affair

Seventeen-year-old Jaycie Lerner’s psychokinetic power surge is over, and her astounding powers are under control for the time being – sort of. As she struggles to maintain her humanity in the face of the awesome terror and responsibility of her abilities, she also yearns for the chance at a normal life – and a relationship with Matt Carter, the best friend she had to leave behind. But Matt’s got a few tricks up his sleeve, and he’s not about to give up on his feelings for Jaycie. As Jaycie and her family grapple with the day-to-day routine of trying to keep their world together, Jaycie’s mother figure, Allison Young, endures a personal crisis of her own. The superhuman blonde possesses the physical equivalent of Jaycie’s awesome psychic power. So evolved, at ninety-two she still looks twenty. But what good is extended life when everyone else around her is so fragile? With no one to share her unusual life, she’s a uniquely lonely woman yearning for the romantic love she sees all around her. But in a dream she gets her wish – and it quickly turns to a nightmare for everyone else in her life. The memory of a rose is all she can hold onto in the storm of obsession that nearly sweeps her away. Things quickly turn deadly for the vampires, but the Dey-Vah Guard fairies refuse to acknowledge there’s an imbalance in the nature they protect. As the danger gets ever closer to Jaycie and her family, the race is on to find answers before a secret plot can destroy them all

Haylee sat with her best friend and watched the four most powerful supernatural beings in the world approach Mason and John. Lucy’s face glowed under the dull street lamp, her delicate fairy features savage and unforgiving. Haylee couldn’t see all the others, but she knew their unnatural and extraordinarily powerful enemies surrounded them on all sides, aiming weapons soaked in their own blood. I guess being attacked by a bunch of dead guys didn’t help our case, she thought to herself bitterly. “What is Allison Young’s decision?” a male voice boomed. Haylee resisted the urge to look around, knowing Allison was somewhere hidden from their view, fighting with every inch of her strength to protect him. All of this because of love. To defend a relationship that threatened to halt evolution in its tracks. Haylee heard Mason tell Landon of the Inner Circle that Allison was on her way. She knew he was stalling in the vain hope this would not come to a fight. She thought of all the supernatural creatures that could kill her – a vampire or even a vampire slayer – and grew angry at the idea that a fairy might end her life tonight. She could feel the fire from Jaycie itching to break lose. Hopefully Mason could get through to the Inner Circle and make them all see the truth. It was a futile hope. Suddenly the scene in Big Spring Park changed right before Haylee’s eyes. Allison was loose. The Second Tier screamed for her blood. Chaos erupted all around them, and Haylee couldn’t focus her eyes on any one thing. Her family was surrounded by anarchy. They might be dying. The last image Haylee saw before that final flash of red was Lucy grabbing Jaycie by the neck. If no one got there fast enough, the being created to protect her was going to snap her neck.

Love at first sight.

It’s a given that people who are looking to fall in love will look at the first one that comes along, hoping he or she is the one. Why? Because then there’s no need to look further. No need to make choices. No need to second-guess. Some folks end up with the first person they meet – the high school sweetheart, the teen crush. Sometimes those matches work out. But a lot of times they don’t. And when they don’t, it’s hard to look back with regret at years spent with what turns out to have been the wrong person and judge that investment of time – of life – as a wrong turn, a waste. Authors face a similar situation when they are tempted to take the first idea that pops into their head and flesh it into a story without first testing it to see if they have the right fit for plot and characters and theme. If they don’t think about it, they will dive in and invest a lot of time and work to develop what oftentimes turns out to be a bad idea. Bad because it’s hard to make believable. Bad because it just doesn’t make sense. Bad because it turns what could otherwise be good writing into a book that stalls or doesn’t gel – a book readers won’t want to read. How can authors avoid this writing heartache?

Try a little story speed-dating.

  Set up the room and invite your participants. First, prepare the setup for your story speed-dating convention. Invite all your ideas and whispers of unique characters to come together in one room – a brainstorming computer file or a notepad page reserved for writing down random ideas. Got a multitude of ideas, maybe some of them with similar themes? Great, you’re ahead of the game. Authors who don’t have any story ideas will be staring at a blank screen/page, so they’ll have to do a little more background work before holding their story speed-dating convention. But in any case, type some makeshift headers on your word-processing document page or write them on your notebook page, leaving enough area below each header to add some detail lines. Headers should be whatever you fancy, but to start out should be something like…   Plot Lines / Story Ideas … etc.   People / Characters / Players … etc.   Setting / Situation / Place … etc. Book Titles / Title Words   The last heading, ‘Book Titles’ may be a little ahead of the game, but it will come into play once you start finding potential match-ups among your various other idea categories.   Start writing down appropriate entries under each header. Or, to get some random ideas that appeal to your interests, peruse news stories. Ideas will pop out as likely suspects. People who want to write about animals in their stories will grab ideas from stories that feature stuff like ‘mule saves rider by killing mountain lion,’ or ‘housecat makes alligator back down,’ or ‘dog rescues owner by dialing 9-1-1,’ or ‘parrot foils home-invasion by imitating police siren.’ Other storylines about movie stars, serial killers, people involved in oddball situations like ghost-hunting, or long-lost love reunited will appeal to authors based on what their innate interests are. So take a little time and jot down typical ideas that you find of interest to you in particular.   If characters start popping into your head, write a few sentences to describe their background or key elements that made you think of them in the first place. It may be as simple as a clever or weird name. But write it down.  

Let the speed-dating begin.

Once you have all your story and character and incidental ideas together in one ‘room,’ reserve a separate ‘room’ (another page) to detail each potential match-up of your various story components categorized under the headings above. Now you are ready to guide the interaction of all these story components you’ve assembled.   Try copying two or three different elements together in a mix-and match style to see how they fit. OK! You’ve got your first speed-dating participants together…   Plot – Man meets woman who claims her dog is psychic.   Character – Joe Evermore is a man unlucky in love. He’s dated many seemingly wonderful women over the years, but none of those relationships lasted, and he hasn’t figured out exactly why.   Setting – Saint-Tropez, French Riviera   The first thing to do is to look at how the various aspects of your story components fit together. The first listing, a plotline where a man meets a woman who claims her dog is psychic has a lot of potential for humor and psychological twists. You like it. (Of course you do, because you want to write romantic comedy and love dogs – what better combination could you come up with?)   Next you look at your potential character ‘Joe Evermore.’ You think his name could somehow be worked into the title of a book, like ‘Looking for Love Evermore’ or something like that. This is an encouraging development, especially since Joe is unlucky in love. You write down the title under your ‘Titles’ heading, and jot it down for this story combo too.   You haven’t yet worked out the details of why Joe is unlucky in love, but given the fact that he’s just met a woman who claims her dog is psychic, you’ve got a pretty good idea now. He gravitates toward women who possess some kind of weird quirk that makes a real relationship impossible to maintain. If you stick with Joe as a main character in this romantic/psychotic romp, you will have to work out some reason why he always gravitates toward woman with whom he can’t stay in a romantic relationship. Maybe he’s got commitment problems because his mother was a bit ‘off’ and drove his father away when Joe was young. But that remains to be seen. Remember, you’re just trying out these various ideas together to see if they have potential.   Last, you take a look at the setting you’ve chosen at random to match up with your plot and character. You chose the scenic seaside resort town Saint-Tropez for this first speed-dating match because you’ve always wanted to visit the celebrity playground of the French Riviera. Plus it has rich historical significance as the first in the coastal area to be liberated from German occupation in World War II. And it’s where 60s sex-symbol actress Bridgette Bardot was discovered. But then you start thinking about the logistics of a woman with a supposedly psychic dog, and a man unlucky in love visiting the jet-setter French Riviera – plus the fact that you’ve never been there, and you don’t know much about it. So you scrap it for this potential match-up.   However, you do like all the rest of what you’ve come up with for a potential story, and so you copy that part of the scenario to another page so you can save it for further consideration as a viable story.   Keep going. Mix and match all the rest of your various component stories. Don’t worry about whether or not they appear to be good matches. Sometimes the most unlikely match creates the most inventive story that’s so unique, it could break into the market and become a winner.   Once you’ve looked at everything you’ve got and have eliminated the obvious non-workable scenarios, you’ll find yourself rich with ideas for stories. So rich, in fact, you’ll be wondering which one to start on first. Just don’t make the mistake of trying to write them all at the same time. Choose one and focus on developing it to its full potential, then move on to the next. Step by step, story by story, you’ll build a body of work that hopefully will be well thought out and well developed so your readers will be flocking to buy your books.

Marijuana is still a sensitive issue and cannabis laws are still very strict in many countries. Therefore, the delivery of marijuana will bring great risks to both the sender and the receiver. Getting caught shipping marijuana will result in a fine for the sender and certainly no one wants that. However, there is still the best way to ship marijuana without getting busted. These ways do not guarantee 100% security because it depends on many factors, but they will help both the sender and the receiver reduce the risk as much as possible. Here are the best ways to mail weed safely that you can refer to.

#1 Mailing Marijuana With USPS

U.S. The Postal Service is, in fact, a federal government agency, but surprisingly, it's the best way to ship marijuana. There are two reasons behind why you should use USPS to deliver marijuana and not another mailing service. First, USPS strictly adheres to many rules about package inspection. They cannot arbitrarily open any package, including packages that "look suspicious" if they do not have any warrant. They must have a reasonable warrant for this check. Second, the USPS doesn't have the resources to X-ray or let drug dogs sniff all the orders they need to process each day. This huge volume of orders will make it impossible for them to thoroughly check all orders. So, the rate of your order being shipped smoothly is very high. Don’t forget to pay with cash. However, that rate is not 100%, because the USPS is a federal agency, they must randomly pick up a number of packages for inspection. And it cannot be ruled out that the random package is yours.

#2 Mailing with Private Delivery Services

Many people believe that using a private mailing service is safer when not involving the federal government. However, we believe that private mailing services like DHL, UPS or FedEx are riskier than USPS. These private mailing services are famous for their opening packages and stealing. That is why it is possible that your package will be exchanged or lost. Package privacy is not guaranteed. In addition, private mailing services will often require a return address as well as come with a rather high shipping fee.

#3 Shipping with Canada Post

Sending marijuana or anything related to marijuana through Canada Post is also a low-risk option. Cannabis law is a little easier in Canada than it is in the US. And they won't use sniffer dogs to find packages containing marijuana. Random checks of packages are also easier to get through when they don't check them too closely. However, it is also inevitable that they will discover marijuana in your package.

#4 Use Vape Cartridges

Using vape cartridges will help mask the strong scent of marijuana even when it's well packaged. Vape cartridges can block the smell of whatever marijuana strain is emitting from the room, and that scent often makes your package easy to catch. However, it is also a crime to ship vape cartridges through the mail, as vape cartridges are listed as a concentrate. So, this method is also quite risky.

#5 Use Multiple Layers of Packaging

Using multiple layers of packaging is a simple yet very effective way to block the strong scents emanating from marijuana. Just with this simple operation, the sender can increase the ability to smoothly ship his order. You should prepare about 5 layers of packaging to wrap around the base layer of plastic packaging containing marijuana. Another trick to minimize odors, avoid being detected by dogs, is to wash the layers of packaging with soap and water. Using this method will naturally help you conceal your order, but it cannot guarantee complete security.

#6 Use Vacuum Sealed Bags

While not as effective as using vape cartridges, vacuum sealed bags will help mask the smell of marijuana to some extent. This is a cost-effective way, and it also helps you avoid the crime associated with shipping vape cartridges. However, this way you still need to use multiple layers of vacuum sealed bags to maximize the smell of marijuana.

#7 Camouflage Packaging

Don't forget to disguise your packaging with things like clothing, souvenirs, candies, bottles of vitamins, or any other item that you might be hiding marijuana with. This is also the way many online seed banks send marijuana seeds to their customers. Can’t deny it is one of the best ways to ship marijuana. You should use a brand-new box to store these camouflage items with marijuana. A brand new and tightly sealed cardboard box will not allow any odors to pass through, and it will also be less suspicious than shabby old cardboard boxes.