_A short story prequel to the Messenger Chronicles series ~ coming soon. Draft excerpt:_ The new boy in the cell next to mine would be dead in a day. Dagnu barely spared the new arrival a glance as he walked the strip between the cells, silently appraising his stock behind their bars. He wore black today. Sometimes it was grey, sometimes a blue so dark it reminded me of Faerie’s night skies. Partially reinforced leather wrapped him from head-to-toe. In his hand, he carried a startle-prod. My back itched at the sight of its prongs, old scars puckering. I kept my gaze fixed on a crack in one of my fifteen bars, halfway between the floor and Dagnu’s hard eyes. Always the same crack. I used to have to lift my chin to look up at it, but I’d grown since then. Now, when I kneeled, the crack was eye level. Dagnu walked on. His boots clicked on the cobblestones, like hollow heartbeats. Some saru Dagnu liked, for no other reason than they were pleasing to look at, or they already bore the kind of bone structure that implied they might make impressive fighting specimens. Others, like the boy who had just arrived, Dagnu needed no more reason to hate them than they hadn’t knelt quickly enough, or they hadn’t averted their eyes when he had first examined them. Sometimes, it took nothing less than Dagnu's mood to determine whether a saru lived or died. In the corner of my eye, I saw the boy hug his knees closer to his chest and tuck in his chin. To speak with him would be a waste of breath. To look at him, would acknowledge he was here, and I had enough saru ghosts crowding my head. I didn’t need his too. Dagnu stopped outside my cell. I stared at the cracked bar. Behind it was his leather-clad thigh. A looped whip hung from his belt. Its ragged tails rested against the side of his thigh. When the winterland fae brought their storms to the city, the cold air tightened long-healed lashing scars made by that whip. “You,” he said. A tiny thrill skittered down my spine. I dragged my gaze up the proud figure he cut. The fae were all so tall and lean, it made them fast and deadly, made them all look down on us, but Faerie had crafted Dagnu into a fae as strong and unyielding as a guardian’s named sword. Dagnu never faltered. He never hesitated. I had heard through saru whispers that he had once been formidable in battle and I believed it. He looked down on me now, his eyes cold, his lips thin, and I felt the weight of his expectations. “You and the new one fight at daybreak.” I bowed my head in acknowledgment. The boy in the cell next to mine jerked his head up. I knew he wouldn’t live beyond a day, because I would be the one to kill him. \\\* Her Glass Heart Messenger Chronicles Prequel © Pippa DaCosta 2018 Work in progress. Coming soon. Publication date subject to change.

"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 the 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 remaining invisible is no longer an option. To hunt the fae, to stop him from destroying a thousand-year-long 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. A new space fantasy series where the guys are hot, the perils are many, and one rebel messenger holds the key to the survival of the human race.

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. The enchanting & mind-blowing Messenger series continues with more action, more romance, and more exciting twists. Add Game of Lies to your shelves today and sign up to Pippa's mailing list for all the latest news and cover reveals. NOTE: Contains graphic sex scenes.

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 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. The fae-in-space "mind-blowing" bestselling series continues in The Nightshade's Touch, Messenger Chronicles #3

“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? The "mind-blowing" fae-in-space bestselling series continues in Prince of Dreams, Messenger Chronicles #4 Authors This series is a true reverse harem. The harem develops during the series. Reader The Messenger Series is professionally edited and proofread for your reading enjoyment. Series Reading Shoot the Messenger, #1 Game of Lies, #2 The Nightshade's Touch, #3 Prince of Dreams, #4 Her Dark Legion, #5 - coming in 2019.

A Paranormal Space Fantasy “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. The mind-blowing Messenger Chronicles comes to its explosive conclusion in Her Dark Legion. Pre-order now at the special reduced price. Series Reading Order: Shoot the Messenger, #1 Game of Lies, #2 The Nightshade's Touch, #3 Prince of Dreams, #4 Her Dark Legion, #5