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Lies aren't her only weapons against the fae...

In the Halow system, one of Earth's three sister star systems, tek and magic--humans and fae--are at war.

Kesh Lasota is a ghost in the machine. Invisible to tek, she's hired by the criminal underworld to carry illegal messages through the Halow system. But when one of those messages kills its recipient, Kesh finds herself on the run with a bounty on her head and a quick-witted marshal on her tail.

Proving her innocence should be straightforward. Until a warfae steals the evidence she needs. The fae haven't been seen in Halow in over a thousand years. And this one--a brutally efficient killer able to wield tek--should not exist. But neither should Kesh.

As Kesh's carefully crafted lie of a life crumbles around her, she knows being invisible is no longer an option. To hunt the warfae, to stop him from destroying a thousand-year fragile peace, she must resurrect the horrors of her past.

Kesh Lasota was a ghost. Now she's back, and there's only one thing she knows for certain: Nobody shoots the messenger and gets away with it.

The Messenger rocked your world, and now she's back. But have her lies finally caught up with her?

Trust doesn't come easy for Kesh Lasota. She survived life as a slave, survived the Dreamweaver's touch, but surviving Marshal Kellee and the mysterious Talen is a whole other game, one she's not sure she's ready for. When the three are captured by a bloodthirsty fae general sweeping through the last of Halow's human colonies, the only weapons they have left are lies. And so Kesh must pretend to be the gladiator they all expect, while Kellee is forced to fight against her, and Talen is... Well, just who is Talen when he can command soldiers with a glance and move among the fae elite as though he belongs? Trust doesn't come easy for Kesh Lasota, neither does love. She must survive both, or everything she's fought for will be lost forever, including her men.

"Be careful which star you wish upon..."

The unseelie--banished by Oberon long ago--are stirring awake, and there's one name on their dark lips: Nightshade.Kesh is beginning to settle into her role as Halow's messenger, saving people from the fae with the help of Kellee, Talen, Arran and Sota, but if she has any hope of making her wrongs right, she must trust those around her. Without them, there is no messenger. Friends, lovers, more. But one has a secret. A secret so dark it threatens to change everything Kesh believes in. A secret that could change the fate of Faerie, Halow, and all of humanity. When the fae abandoned the stars long-ago, they left behind more than fairytales. They left behind their monsters.

"Oh what a tangled web we weave..."

Kesh fled Faerie as a queen killer. Now she returns as the Faerie King's secret obsession. But on Faerie, nothing is as it seems, not even Kesh herself. With days to stop Arran's execution and the stoic guardian, Sirius, as her constant shadow, Kesh must weave her lies deep within Faerie's courts where magic and whispers combine and conspire. Soon, Kesh learns there is more at stake than Arran's life. Faerie is dying. Oberon's reign is crumbling. The time to strike against the fae is now. But with Talen, Kellee and Sota a thousand light-years away, Kesh cannot succeed alone...

Beneath the courtly politics, the glittering facades, and the King's fragile hold on his people, the Dreamweaver is locked in eternal slumber, dreaming of the day his Queen of Hearts will set him free... because he knows, Kesh Lasota has no other choice. Kesh survived the Dreamweaver once before. Now all she has to do is control him. But Faerie's Dreamweaver has other ideas for the peoples' Messenger. He knows who, and what Kesh really is and he has every intention of using her to make all his dreams come true.

He takes your mind, makes it his, takes your soul, makes you cruel. Dare you answer the Dreamweaver's call?

"I've come too far to surrender now..."

Eledan's nightmare has been unleashed upon the worlds and with Oberon gone, only the messenger crew stand in its way. Kellee, Talen, Sirius, Sota, and Kesh. Together, they are stronger, but there are forces on Faerie who do not want the worlds saved, forces that would see the Messenger and her crew torn apart.Queen to Faerie's new king, Messenger and more to the saru, lover to some and a weapon to others, but who is Kesh Lasota really? A guiding light or an unwitting puppet?Answers are coming. The time for lies has passed. And Kesh will soon learn some battles can't be won alone.

FIRST CONTACT!

The three thousand-year-old thearchy which rules the planet Aseneshesh faces certain disaster as the Chani civilization is racked by famine and rebellion -- a famine caused by the alien "messengers," who are willing to trade grain for Chani blood, and nothing else.

Young Curin is ordered by his master, the Lord Protector of the Thearchy, to carry a secret message to the distant highlands. It is a perilous journey in the best of times, and for an unworldly scholar, it is certain death.

But Curin's adventure among the lionlike people of his planet is a revelation, and he will learn, ultimately, that nothing is as he believed it to be: not his world, not his master. not his mission... not even his god, not even himself.

IT'S A BRAVE NEW WORLD...

Phillip Wing is a brilliant architect--the designer of the new "Wonder of the World." While proud of his creation, Wing does not feel warmly towards those who brought the technology that helped to build it. The Messengers are aliens who have come to Earth with a message, a new religious philosophy that seems to sap human aggressiveness... and has taken Phillip's wife away from him.

While Wing struggles with his own life, on a distant world a living Goddess struggles with the future of her people.

Teaqua, the immortal Thearch of the Chani, has concluded that her people must enter fully into the consortium of the Messengers. To do so, she must die, in a way that will let the people know she has gone before them into the wider Universe.

The Messengers believe that there is only one being who can build a fitting tomb to achieve this purpose--Phillip Wing. To embark on the greatest challenge of his life, Wing will have to leave Earth... and abandon his own humanity.