David Deighton

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Time

In the year 560 AD, Eamon succeeds his father as king of Dalriada, only to be overthrown by his half-brother and flees with his druid mentor, an artificial human. He learns that he is the product of a selective breeding program dating back millennia, with the ability to manipulate reality with his mind, enabling him to renew his body indefinitely and steer the development of the human race over eons and its expansion across the universe to achieve its manifest destiny. At the end of time, Eamon reflects on all that has happened and his own role in the history of the human race.

A mysterious figure standing in front of a swirling vortex of stars and shadows.
A mysterious figure standing in front of a swirling vortex of stars and shadows.
Incursion

Erich loses his job and enters a downward spiral, falling into the clutches of a cult led by celebrity evangelist Seth, which turns out to be a front for invasion from a parallel universe where human victims are exiled while their bodies are taken over. Erich must fight on multiple fronts, physically and mentally, to liberate the victims and stop the invasion.

Routes of Redemption

Moss, Cat, and Roy are thrown together as children at the orphanage and grow up together, gradually sinking into criminal activities involving the brutal murder of a nightwatchman and culminating, as young adults, in a heist that goes wrong, leaving them to deal with the consequences, including external threats, while resolving their internal flaws and contradictions on their routes of redemption.

A novel exploring themes of sin, redemption, male/female relationships, and accountability.

A screenplay,

In progress, planned as a trilogy of novels: “Time: Emergence”, “Time: Diaspora”, and “Time: Reckoning”, together with related short stories.