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Past Life Space Opera / Sci-fi Adventure

Awakening: Dead Forever Book 1

Imagine a world where death is merely an inconvenience.

A new body awaits and we resume living, fully aware of the past. Every love, talent and distaste, retained from one life to the next. But this immortal paradise has a price -- eternal life as slaves, oppressed by masters who forbid individuality, creative expression, and free thinking.

A band of rebels refuses to conform, but for a population that reincarnates, the government is powerless to eliminate insurgents. Putting them to death is useless. The rebels will return, again and again. The final solution -- perpetual amnesia. Kill their memory of past lives, and banish the rebels to a lonely corner of the galaxy.

Robbed of his identity and purpose, a reluctant hero is dumped into a transient existence, and he regards himself as insignificant. But he is of great interest to agents in black who come to collect him. His decision to flee begins a journey of rediscovery, but some of it he would rather leave buried. When an oddball crew of fellow rebels comes to his rescue, the boundaries of reality are tested, and who to trust is anyone's guess.

Eager to arouse his memory, a flirtatious member of the rebel team shows him the life he once enjoyed, and more, as he returns to a strange world where bodies are manufactured and childhood is obsolete. If only he could be a child again. First he'll have to remember how to reincarnate.

94k words, 266 pages.

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Apotheosis: Dead Forever Book 2

A god? No thanks, too much responsibility.

Sequel to Awakening, the adventure continues as the rebel team travels to the Restricted Zone, but mistakes mount and the mission falls apart. Plunged into an alien world at war, the hero is caught between battling natives who either regard him as a god, or another heretic fit to burn.

The hero fights to bring peace among chaos but his nemesis has arrived, and he likes playing god, poised to launch unthinkable wrath that fulfills a world-ending prophecy. As their mighty gods clash, the warring natives are driven to extremes of intolerance and cruelty. The hero only wished to save their ravaged kingdom, not fuel its destruction.

A duel of the gods will decide the planet's fate, and the natives are confident their savior will prevail. But he is only a man, equally anxious to save himself, and there is no divine escape for mere mortals. The final conflict will expose the truth, either swaying the beliefs of devout minions, or immortalizing the dead hero for eternity.

Back home, the rebels are under siege, and the body supply is depleted. More of all the hero is expected to fix while he only longs to be a child again, the one dream denied him for lifetimes. He hatches a daring plot to outsmart the enemy, risking his own life, and the last body to enjoy as a free soul. A single choice could spell his end, for real this time. Dead forever.

Apotheosis continues the Dead Forever trilogy, followed by Resonance.

125k words, 354 pages

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Resonance: Dead Forever Book 3

Sentence: Life on Earth.

Sequel to Apotheosis, the adventure continues as the hero begins another life, adding to countless wasted lives spent on Earth. A child born into Cold War America, he faces nuclear annihilation, as he did in a past that he wants to forget. Unruly in school and struggling to fit in, the boy tries convincing others of past lives, but adults dismiss his wild tales as the overactive imagination of a child in need of therapy and medication.

As an adult, his notions prove true when he encounters friends and foes from the distant past, also reincarnated on Earth. But after countless lifetimes, identity loses clarity. Who is friend, and who is foe? His undying quest remains -- find the love of all his lives. Surely, she was sentenced to Earth as well.

The hero is plunged into a world of deception and narcotics, illicit and prescribed. A fugitive, he is stalked by police while scheming to outsmart his nemesis. Gunshots, shattered glass and deadly falls are survived with ancient technology drawn from memory, and aided by trusted allies, he becomes a match for his one true enemy. Or so he thinks.

Torn between the search for love and a thirst to win, he learns the truth of his past, how it defines the future, and the funnel of time opens a portal to his destiny. Determined to conquer his enemy and win back his love, he is forced to choose -- give up one body and trust another will exist, or be eternally trapped without one, Dead Forever.

Sequel to Awakening and Apotheosis, Resonance concludes the Dead Forever trilogy.

113k words, 324 pages.

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