Messengers of an Alien God

"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