The Year That Will Shock the World

By Courtney Pierce

2021 will be an epic year, one that will change the course of future history. Events soon to unfold will enlighten humanity to heights far above the current disillusionment of nasty politics. Like all good books, the climax of a story is the showdown between good and evil, light and dark, right and wrong, truth and lies. Clarity emerges to conclude the story as it began—a Revolution—with our hero of the story forever changed.

We're about to come full circle to reclaim what we didn't know we'd lost. 

Every writer knows that the most important emotional moment of a book is at the 70% mark when "all hope is lost." Yes, the 50% mark is the exciting climax, with our hero in the height of battle with outside forces, but when "all hope is lost," it is the internal battle that becomes more important. Our hero hits an emotional bottom by what he/she feels: betrayed, trapped, oppressed, or disillusioned. The weakest, most vulnerable moment requires a hero to dig deep to find strength. Then a choice must be made.

Here's the backstory for what we're living in real time. In the coming months, maybe sooner, it will surely be the front story. 

Over 245 years ago, our great country was born into a Republic of thirteen colonies based on a foundation of law and order, freedom, morality, and spirituality. The Constitution was designed to represent the people, all the people, and the people were in charge. That's where our country's story began. Since then, we've been in a relentless battle to maintain our original freedoms. This has resulted in assassinations, wars, scandals, corruption, crimes, manipulation, and oppression.

A free people are a threat. The masses must be controlled.

In the late 1800s, our liberties were secretly sold. The Republic was no longer representing "the people." Many Americans have no idea of this little-known fact in our country's history. At the end of the Civil War, the United States became a "Corporation" after going bankrupt. President Woodrow Wilson did a deal with the Devil to get the country out of deep debt. We, the people, became the collateral for a loan from the global banking Cabal that was comprised of international elite families, the British Royal Family, and the Vatican. This group of foreign entities has "owned" our country ever since. We ceased to be a Democratic Republic. That's why the Federal Reserve and the Internal Revenue Service were created. Every dollar we earn or save has enslaved us to pay the country's debt to these foreign entities.

An amazing transaction happened in 2020. The United States of America Corporation was dissolved.

The battle to take back our country has begun, hence the election mess, a weaponized pandemic, and a battle with Big Tech. The Cabal includes China. If we win this digital war, our country will be returning to it's original Constitutional structure of a Republic, and our currency will become real money again with a transition back to the Gold Standard. The international Cabal has much to protect in making sure this transition doesn't happen.

To compound the assault, dissolution of the Corporation is not supported by everyone in our representative government. There are many corrupt politicians paid off by the Cabal, on both sides of aisle, who also have much to lose from their ill-gotten self-enrichment on the backs of the American people.

America ceases to be great when its leaders cease working for the greater good.   

In this fight, the people have been stripped of their freedoms and bombarded with propaganda. Who would have dreamed Americans could be canceled and censored for mere independent thought? No healthy debate is allowed for different points-of-view. Instead, everyone who challenges the narrative is accused of systemic racism, while a blind eye is turned to true violence. Peaceful voices are deemed to be domestic terrorism. Mandates of masks and lockdowns have crushed independent businesses. Orders for families to separate for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Hanukkah seem utterly unthinkable in America. But the unthinkable is happening now, as if we're living inside a real dystopian novel.

We're in that dark moment of the story where our hero is awakened to fight. And fight we will, summoning hope and belief against all odds. Pain will become motivation to rise to save our country. Light will prevail over dark. Truth will become strength.

And that's what we're living through at this amazing moment in time. The stakes have risen far above the noisy fray of bickering political parties. This has everything to do with America taking back its independence and thwarting a foreign takeover. The public needs the truth—no matter how heinous what we learn—because on the other side of all this, we'll have unity.

We're sheep no more. We won't allow our civil liberties to be weaponized against us. And we authors won't allow our books to be banned or manipulated on search engines for what we write, nor will we endure our Tweets tagged as disinformation, or have our websites blown off servers for how we voted.

Bring on 2021. This is America.

Courtney Pierce is a fiction writer living in Kalispell, Montana with her husband and stepdaughter. She writes for the baby boomer audience. She spent 28 years as an executive in the entertainment industry and used her time in a theater seat to create stories that are filled with heart, humor, and mystery. She studied craft and storytelling at the Attic Institute and has completed the Hawthorne Fellows Program for writing and publishing. Active in the writing community, Courtney is a board member of the Northwest Independent Writers Association and on the Advisory Council of the Independent Publishing Resource Center. She is a member of Willamette Writers, Pacific Northwest Writers Association, and Authors of the Flathead. The Executrix received the Library Journal Self-E recommendation seal.

Print and E-books are available through most major online retailers, including Amazon.com.

Check out all of Courtney's books: 

courtney-pierce.com and windtreepress.com 

New York Times best-selling author Karen Karbo says, "Courtney Pierce spins a madcap tale of family grudges, sisterly love, unexpected romance, mysterious mobsters and dog love. Reading Indigo Lake is like drinking champagne with a chaser of Mountain Dew. Pure Delight."

Coming in 2021!

When Aubrey Cenderon moves to Montana after the death of her father, the peace and quiet of Big Sky Country becomes complicated with a knock on the door from the sheriff. An injured grizzly bear is on the loose and it must be eliminated before it kills again. The sheriff's insistence that she buy a gun for protection will present Aubrey with some serious soul-searching, because the grizzly-on-the-run is hunting her too . . . for a different reason.

YA Horror/Paranormal Romance Author Catrina Burgess

::: Giveaway – I’m giving away to one winner a package with some of my favorite chocolate, cookies and tea. How do you enter to win? Comment below. Tell me what is your favorite paranormal element? Do you love vampires, werewolves, zombies, ghosts, magic?:::

I’ve always adored ghost stories. I devoured all the spook filled stories I could find as a little kid. Over the years I’ve never gotten tired of reading books or watching shows about the paranormal. When I started working on the Dark Ritual Series, of course I took my love of all things paranormal and created a world full of dark magic. In that world is Colina Campbell. She is a girl who is trying to find her way. She is trying to survive against incredible odds and to do so she has to turn her back on everything she believes. Everything her people have taught her. I love working on the Dark Ritual Series and I can’t wait to finish Book 4 so I can share with everyone what happens next in Colina’s adventures.

Awakening is a YA Horror/Paranormal. There's a romance, some ghosts and a zombie or two.

Seventeen year old Colina is desperate to become a Death Dealer. It’s the only way for her to survive, and get the revenge she seeks. But, to become a Death Dealer she will have to court death itself, suffer the possession of another, and if she makes it to the third ritual, she'll have to do the unthinkable. Can she survive the horrific trials long enough to gain the dark power? And if she does, what will she become?

Her guide on this journey is Luke, a seventeen year old Death Dealer who reluctantly takes on the task of training her. But the more time he spends with Colina, the more he worries about her safety, because he’s falling hard for a girl with too many secrets.

Read The Dark Rituals series on Wattpad. http://www.wattpad.com/user/catrinaburgess

Awakening – Book 1

Possession – Book 2

Revenant – Book 3

And Legion – Book 4 coming this winter

Read An Excerpt:

I reached out, grabbing for anything, but there was only empty space. I fell a long way before slamming hard against the surface of…water? I plunged down into cold, wet darkness. The shock of the cold forced the oxygen from my lungs. My head went under, and my momentum carried me down. I kicked my feet, my lungs near bursting for air. I struggled to go up, to break the surface. When I didn’t think I could survive a moment longer, I found myself bobbing above the water’s surface. I could breathe again. I sucked in oxygen, sweet oxygen and frantically moved my arms, trying to stay afloat. I did my best to swim as my clothes, heavy with water, pulled me back down.

I looked up and saw lightning zigzagging across the sky. How far had I fallen? Ten feet? Twelve feet? I kicked forward, reached out, and made contact with smooth stone. My fingers followed the stone around. A perfect circle--I had fallen into a well. I looked up at the sky again as I brushed against the smooth rock. There were no handholds. No way to climb up and out. The water was cold. A chill seeped into my bones, and I began to shiver. I forced down the panic and tried to stay calm.

And I realized I wasn’t alone.

An unnatural chill ran down the back of my neck. A breeze moved past me, and I had the sense that whatever hovered near me wasn’t of this world.

I heard a whisper. My ears strained to make out the words, but there were none, at least none I could decipher. More noises that didn’t sound human. Then a growl to my right.

I spun around in the water. “Who are you?” My words were forced out between chattering teeth.

Another growl, this one louder and closer.

“What do you want?” Desperately, I tread water, trying to keep my head above the surface.

“You” echoed in the darkness, and as it rang out, something grabbed my foot and yanked me under.

I kicked hard, forcing myself back up. I broke the surface and sucked in a mouthful of air only to be pulled under again. Whatever had me was strong. I kicked and struggled, frantic to break free from its grip. I couldn’t breathe. I did a couple of hard scissor kicks and for a moment my head bobbed above the water again. I sucked in another lungful of air before it dragged me under.

About Catrina Burgess:

I write because it helps keeps the darkness away and reminds me there is magic in the world. I live in a small mining town in Arizona. The place at night is definitely spooky. I swear I've heard the wind giggle and sometimes there's a very odd breeze that blows at night. There's something unnatural about it--it's truly spooky and sends shivers down your spine. I love all things that go bump in the night. I adore old movies.I’m a huge Joss Whedon fan. When I grow up I want to be a super hero. I want a cool red and black costume and I want some rockin' powers. I've been known to eat pizza and cold Chinese food for breakfast and I’m the queen of the board game Stratego. I’ve never been beaten. NEVER! ;-)

GIVEAWAY QUESTION: Tell me what is your favorite paranormal element? Do you love vampires, werewolves, zombies, ghosts, magic?

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