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4: The Countdown Begins

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A world torn apart by natural disasters and stamped on by war, what is left of the great countries of the past rise again as Empires. UPAE, or the United Provinces of the American Empire, has managed to survive, even thrive through six generations of solely female rulers, beginning with the first leader, formerly Mrs. President before California fell into the ocean, Yellowstone became a volcanic crater, Global warming turned Florida into an an Archipelago and the sun rendered modern circuitry useless. The successful creation of heirs was ensured by the Choosing, a process by which the young heir finds at least two suitable mates in the male population through extreme testing and beauty screening. This is where we find Nefertiti, the most recent heir in the successful line, in the midst of Choosing the four that will rule her empire with her, however only one will have the duty, the honor, of producing the next heir. However, years of relative peace and prosperity are about detonate as the volatile Republic of Antarctica begins its secret plans.  They are desperate.
And hungry.
 So the question is not whether the destruction will come. The question is...
Who will survive?All Rights Reserved

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Minder: Secrets of Mind

Eve Hammond, her best friends Lance Morgan and Alison Murphy, and her on and off-again boyfriend Amari Walker have spent the last four years enjoying college and everything it has to offer. Dealing with the ups and downs and trying in their own ways to remain together and intact as their future approaches. But Eve has always had a secret, as these four years were a break allowed by her father, who carries his own secrets and doesn't let her forget the reasons for her upbringing. Suffering from visions that can leave her frozen, Eve struggles as their final semester begins, and the visions become more frequent and less typical in experience, as if something or someone is reaching out to her from a world unknown. Little does she or the others know, they live in her mind as a place to keep her hidden from dangers in the real world, dangers like a dark figure hunting her and her family or Gregory Pheonix. The First Human and leader of the United Human Republics that wants her for reasons, not in line with his own peoples' beliefs. As the effects of the visions become stronger and her father loses his own strength, a plan is hatched to bring her to safety between him and her mother, ending her time in the world she has grown up in. With many characters noticing this shift, the world beyond the realm of her mind begins to heat up with a buzz that will usher in her arrival into reality. An arrival that she and her friends will sooner rather than later have no choice but to accept and must prepare for the consequences of their soon-to-be new reality. She might have been trained for this, but she will learn soon enough that she was the weapon she was learning to wield all along.