Dreamtime of an Alien God
You Say Undead Love is Harder
Dreamtime of an Alien God begins where Messengers of an Alien God left off. A giant fertilizer bomb detonated by Sheriff John Wright and retired Army engineer Frank Marshall failed to destroy the archangels' saucer. Worse, the bombing lets loose a flock of angel/human hybrids upon the small town of Creedance, Missouri, and causes, for unexplainable reasons, some of the recently deceased to come back to life.
Kiss My Empty Braincase, and I Die All Over Again
But the resurrected are not brain-eating zombies or vampires; they're the rejuvenated and charismatic undead, and they take living lovers. Things become a bit surreal, both for the living and the undead. Laura Jacobsen has unique issues. One, she missed out on the first offerings of immortality by not merging with an archangel.
She considers a quest to merge with the last remaining archangel - if his sleeping body can be recovered from Lost Lake. Her quest is interrupted as she falls in love with a undead man, not just romantic love, but a heart-pounding, sexual obsession.
Styxian Sue, Oh How You Complete Me
Bryan Douglas has problems too. Not only has Laura dumped him for a dead man, he's found himself involved with an undead lover too. It would be funny, he thinks, if it were not the most intense love he's ever experienced.
Once More Into the Waters of Illusion, My Love
And then there's the matter of the boundaries between astral planes being weakened by the presence of the angel saucer in lost lake. No one is sure at any time if they are on the Earthly plane of existence or one of the uncountable astral planes.
Then things become stranger.

Propaganda cartoon artist Greg Kaplan is an Everyman of the mid-21st Century. He struggles to maintain his legally prescribed anti-schizophrenic medication levels, deal with an unfaithful wife, care for a baby with birth defects, and get financing for recombinant genetic therapy. But his life becomes complicated when he is assigned to develop a propaganda comic for the Methuselah Institute, which has allegedly developed a gene therapy conferring immortality. At first, it seems like a plum of an assignment, even though it involves traveling to a fundy part of the state. Kaplan's beautiful but eccentric co-worker and talented bubble scriptwriter, Karla Picard, has been assigned to travel with him, and after years of keeping him at a platonic distance, she now wants to take their relationship beyond friendly co-worker status. But the Methuselah Institute turns out not to be what it first seemed. In fact, the scientists may not even be completely human.

Awakening of an Alien God Truth and Illusion
In the third installment of the Messengers trilogy, Laura Jacobsen and Bryan Douglas seek access to the archangel's leviathan flying saucer, still partially submerged in Lost Lake. They have learned the angel saucer is a portal to the remote astral planes, and they hope to search these planes for their lost undead lovers, John Wright and Suzanne Zimmerman.

Byzantine Shadows
Laura and Bryan eventually find much more than lost loves, much more they could have imagined, including revelations into the true nature of reality.

As I befriend the Dead
Marguerite, a human/angel hybrid is also on a quest. She has lost her flying companion, May Tyre, to a terrible accident. As she seeks a way to resurrect May, Marguerite's human memories begin to return, and she realizes she made a terrible mistake when she merged with the archangel Azazel to gain immortality.

Of Wars on Planes Beyond My Ken
Major Karl Minor is on a mission as well, to investigate an object in Lost Lake that in aerial reconnaissance photos looks like a huge flying saucer. The official word is the artifact really some kind of hoax fabricated by the citizens of Creedance. But if Minor finds differently, his orders are to destroy it by whatever means he can.

Things Only Damaged Souls Know
Minor believes he's on a fool's mission, as his military career is all but defunct. His personal life is a train wreck too, and at times, he wonders why he even bothers to keep living. Then he meets the glorious winged female creature at the shores of Lost Lake, and reality is turned inside out.

Chapter titles
1. Truth and Illusion 2. Fly above my reach 3. Byzantine Shadows 4. Hide Their Intent 5. As I befriend the Dead 6. Delusion Departs 7. Love Comes to an Alien Place 8. To Whisper Dread 9. Things Only Damaged Souls Know 10. Of Wars on Planes Beyond My Ken 11. And Times Forgotten by God 12. While Illusions Pass as Clouds 13. To Haunt the Dreaming God 14. In the Dark Night of the Soul 15. And Call the Return of the Dead 16. From the Fire and Blood of their Collision 17. Rises the Shade of a New Demiurge 18. As a Shared Delusion 19. Unravels the Universe 20. And Unfolds a Revelation 21. Of the way to the Threshold 22. Where Lies the Self 23. That Knows Life is but a Tale 24 As Told by Clowns and Lovers 25. Full of Sound, Fury and Tears 26. Where Endings become Beginnings

Messengers of an Alien God "(Occult Science Fiction)" "After the Fall"
The small rural town of Creedance, Missouri, finds itself hosting a crashed alien flying saucer of gargantuan proportions. The saucer's crew are beautiful but amorphous creatures resemble Old-Testament angels, claim to be immortal but claim no knowledge of any religion.

"Beyond What We Know"
Coincidental with the crash of the alien sauce, the electromagnetic pulse of a stratospheric nuclear explosion has knocked all solid-state electronic devices, including radios, televisions, car ignition systems, cell phones and most landline telephone systems, power-plant control computers and even digital watches. Creedance is isolated from the rest of the world.

"Minotaur"
Then, one by one, local residents disappear or are found sexually mutilated. A few citizens begin to wonder why they and the rest of their neighbors have accepted the archangels with initial indifference.

"Lost Souls"
As more residents disappear, the an odd alliance of a right-wing sheriff, a new-age waitress, an eccentric intellectual and his wife, and stranded college student seek clues to the true nature of the angels. What they learn is a shock to all concerned, including the archangels themselves.

The "dramatis personae" include: Sheriff John Wright, right-wing lawman with marital problems; Uncle Robert Jacobsen, resident savant, polyglot, bibliophile and possibly a borderline schizophrenic; Sophia Blackstone, muralist, common-law wife to Uncle Robert, and one of the few educated Afro-Americans in town; Bryan Douglas, one-time philosophy major, one-time English major, one-time journalism major and college dropout, currently a career woodcutter; Laura Jacobsen, Uncle Robert's sexually manipulative niece; an Doctor Charles Jenkins, reformed alcoholic and country doctor.

From the Author: By no means am I using this genre for a pulpit. This cannot be called religious fiction by any stretch of the imagination. Nor am I an atheist with a grudge trying to seize the bully pulpit from those who are religious. I'm simply trying to tell a good story, one inspired by a reoccurring lucid dream and out-of-body experience. I strove to write about unique concepts, strong characters and intriguing situations. I didn't set out to write a novel, not to mention a trilogy, but more questions arose as I answered the first questions, and the characters I thought I had control over seemed to develop a life independent of any outline I produced, and second and third novels, "Dreamtime of an Alien God" and "Awakening of an Alien God," were the result. -R. Douglas Burns