Info - The Keepers of Forever

Other Novels by James C. Dunavant

~ Horror ~

What do you do when the body of the young girl you had secretly desired rises from the dead and demands you have sex with her? Peter Wesley doesn't know, but he must find out! All that is important to him is at stake: his family, Diana--his wife-to-be, the dead girl's soul, and his sanity.

Does it have something to do with the "Seven Day Viewing," a two-hundred-year-old Silverstone family tradition that has Renee's body on display in the family mausoleum?
Does it have something to do with the embalming fluid that Renee's aunt, Audrey Silverstone, provided to the mortician who prepared Renee's body for display?
Is the two-hundred-year-old book Peter finds in the attic of Renee's home--a book depicting rituals performed over the dead body of a young woman--a clue?
And what about the two-hundred-year-old painting of a sickly young woman who is identical to Renee in appearance? What is the relationship between the two women born exactly two hundred years apart?

Peter begins to unravel the mystery with the help of Renee's spirit who speaks to him in dreams, and the help of a paranormal investigator who video tapes Renee's dead body sitting up in her coffin and discussing the matter.

Then, when Peter thought things couldn't get any worse, Diana mysteriously disappears, and so does Renee's body--which apparently got up and walked out of the mausoleum. Peter must find them both, somewhere deep in the thick woods surrounding the Silverstone estate.

If he does not, Diana will die--her soul forever trapped in Renee's rotting body. And Renee's soul will be forever trapped in the void . . .

Status: complete, polished and published; click HERE for more information.

   Book II in The Keeper's Way Series (Sequel to The Keepers of Forever) Copyright © 1997 James C. Dunavant, All Rights Reserved    ~ Science Fiction ~
     Forrest Hauser returns to confront the Mind--the god-like being who rules superspace and all the universes contained therein. Hauser has a score to settle, and he will do so whatever it takes. Can a mere man be more powerful than God?

Status: second draft

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   Book III in The Keeper's Way Series Copyright © 1997 James C. Dunavant, All Rights Reserved ~ Science Fiction ~
     Sereh is five years old when she witnesses her mother sharing blood with the god-like Enonians which rule the Outside. When she is older, a minion of the Enonians approaches Sereh to give her special training in service to the Enonians. It is considered an honor to be so chosen. But as Sereh learns the truth about the Enonians, and the way those living in the Inside have been fed a false reality--that the world in which they live is merely the inside of a spaceship and not the totality of reality--she rebels against the all-powerful Enonians. Can a young woman of eighteen hope to defeat the Enonians and free her people?

Status: planning

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   Copyright © 1997 James C. Dunavant, All Rights Reserved ~ Horror, Suspense ~
     Authorities are tracking Dorothy Weaver who they believe is responsible for the "Sex Killings" that have occurred in Atlanta, Georgia over the past five years. When she packs up and moves to a small rural community in northern Florida, they discover that Henry Tibbs--who was found guilty of the brutal murder of Vivian Greeno six months ago--has the same M.O. The similarities between the two cases is astonishing. Both kill on their birthdays and both kill by slashing the throats of their victims while having sex with them, and both have killed four times starting when they were fifteen years old. The most puzzling aspect of the two cases is that Weaver and Tibbs were both born on the same date, literally within minutes of each other. Why the pair, who do not know each other, should kill on their birthdays using the same methods is unknown. Tibbs was declared criminally insane and is being held in the maximum security wing of the psychiatric hospital in Bradsville. Weaver is free, and she, like Tibbs, has a birthday coming up.

Will authorities be able to stop Weaver from killing again? And what will Tibbs do now that he is incarcerated and unable to find a victim to fulfill the deadly impulse? No one knows, but all will wish they had never heard of the pair when Weaver is finally caught and sent to the same facility where Tibbs is being held...

Status: a work in progress.

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   Copyright © 1997 James C. Dunavant, All Rights Reserved ~ Science Fiction ~
     Scientists at the Proserpine hyperspace research station on Pluto discover a mysterious alien object buried in the methane ice that is at least a billion years old and apparently made of hypermatter. Six months later, all contact with the facility is lost. Nicholas Rutherford heads a team of scientists sent to investigate. The object, which had been impenetrable, suddenly decays, and six angelic beings emerge and announce the end of the universe.

Status: a work in progress.

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   Copyright © 1997 James C. Dunavant, All Rights Reserved    ~ Science Fiction ~
     Father Jagger is a killer. He doesn't want to be, but it is required by the Church that he erase those persons deemed to be a threat to the World View of Godship, the state religion of the colonized planet Zeller. Jagger can't be killed; he is, by the powers of Godship, immortal and invulnerable.

     A small band of what is left of the human race after the alien Yanken invaded and conquered the solar system, hide out in a hollowed-out asteroid. There, they conceive and store in cryogenic stasis human embryos, hoping to repopulate the solar system once the Yanken have gone.

     While dealing with his remorse of the killings required of him, Father Jagger begins to doubt the World View of Godship. He seeks to discover the truth, and stumbles upon knowledge that not even the Church Fathers know...

Status: research and planning.

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     In the distant future, humankind attempts to use its knowledge to achieve immortality. When biological immortality proves impractical, the technology is developed where the conscious personality can be transferred to a near-perfect humanoid machine. But something goes wrong. Those who have transferred are not the same--are not human. The process is made illegal and the transcendent are sought out and terminated. In an effort to survive, the transcendent use hyperspatial technology to go back in time to an earlier period in Earth's history--the early 21st century--a time where they are indistinguishable from humans.

Status: research and planning.

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I am currently seeking new representation for my unpublished works. If you know of a good literary agent that might be interested in my science fiction and/or horror novels, please let me know via email here: jcd@atlantic.net. Thanks.