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Messenger
In a world made deaf by hatred, who will hear the messenger?
Severine’s world ends the day her family is murdered. Being raised in the loving community of gay Travelers always marked her as an outsider, but being female puts her in mortal danger. Women are scarce, precious, and hunted.
When chance brings Severine face to face with the father she has never known, he assigns the son of his murdered best friend to guard her. They soon clash. Severine believes all men are violent brutes and Jeph resents his freedoms being curtailed.
An uneasy understanding grows but Jeph is glad to deliver her to the Enclaves, a sanctuary her father has carved out in the mountains for his women and children. But there is no safety in a world broken by war and sickness and when violence follows her, Severine flees to the northern city of Andhaka in search of a home amongst her mother’s people. Jeph follows, bound by loyalty to her father, but the north holds terrible dangers for him.
It’s been years since Andhaka has welcomed outsiders with anything but bullets, and to survive and to protect Jeph, Severine must learn to use her enemies’ weapons against them. As the stakes rise, she comes to understand the horror of her mother’s loss, and what drove her father north seventeen years before. His quest becomes her quest, but she hasn’t counted on the savage legacy that war and sickness have left behind, or on falling in love.
Can Severine succeed where her father failed? Or will her fate prove even deadlier than his? If you love your fantasy set in brilliant new worlds, with characters you really care about, and just the right dash of romance, you will love Messenger.
Buy Messenger today to share Severine’s journey as she fights for a home, the man she loves, and a better world.
Severine’s world ends the day her family is murdered. Being raised in the loving community of gay Travelers always marked her as an outsider, but being female puts her in mortal danger. Women are scarce, precious, and hunted.
When chance brings Severine face to face with the father she has never known, he assigns the son of his murdered best friend to guard her. They soon clash. Severine believes all men are violent brutes and Jeph resents his freedoms being curtailed.
An uneasy understanding grows but Jeph is glad to deliver her to the Enclaves, a sanctuary her father has carved out in the mountains for his women and children. But there is no safety in a world broken by war and sickness and when violence follows her, Severine flees to the northern city of Andhaka in search of a home amongst her mother’s people. Jeph follows, bound by loyalty to her father, but the north holds terrible dangers for him.
It’s been years since Andhaka has welcomed outsiders with anything but bullets, and to survive and to protect Jeph, Severine must learn to use her enemies’ weapons against them. As the stakes rise, she comes to understand the horror of her mother’s loss, and what drove her father north seventeen years before. His quest becomes her quest, but she hasn’t counted on the savage legacy that war and sickness have left behind, or on falling in love.
Can Severine succeed where her father failed? Or will her fate prove even deadlier than his? If you love your fantasy set in brilliant new worlds, with characters you really care about, and just the right dash of romance, you will love Messenger.
Buy Messenger today to share Severine’s journey as she fights for a home, the man she loves, and a better world.
305 pages, Kindle Edition
First published May 3, 2018
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About the author
K.S. Nikakis
44 books42 followersKaren Simpson Nikakis grew up in a small country town in NE Victoria, Australia where she rode horses through beautiful alpine scenery. This continues to influence her fiction, nonfiction and poetry works.
She pursued a career in Education including Secondary Colleges, AMECs, TAFE and Universities (Australian and International) and was Assoc Prof and Foundation Head of Melbourne Polytechnic's innovative Bachelor of Writing and Publishing. She holds a B.Ed, M.Ed(Hons) in fantasy, and a Ph.D in Campbell's hero myth, as well as three Diplomas in the areas of Writing and Communications.
She is the author of over 17 fiction, nonfiction and poetry works. Her fantasy novel I Heard the Wolf Call My Name and short story Glass-Heart were both short-listed in the Aurealis Awards 2019, and her poem Deadway was short-listed in the Australian Shadows Award 2020.
Karen is a Communications Consultant and qualified Life Coach and works as a writer and publisher with SOV Media.
She pursued a career in Education including Secondary Colleges, AMECs, TAFE and Universities (Australian and International) and was Assoc Prof and Foundation Head of Melbourne Polytechnic's innovative Bachelor of Writing and Publishing. She holds a B.Ed, M.Ed(Hons) in fantasy, and a Ph.D in Campbell's hero myth, as well as three Diplomas in the areas of Writing and Communications.
She is the author of over 17 fiction, nonfiction and poetry works. Her fantasy novel I Heard the Wolf Call My Name and short story Glass-Heart were both short-listed in the Aurealis Awards 2019, and her poem Deadway was short-listed in the Australian Shadows Award 2020.
Karen is a Communications Consultant and qualified Life Coach and works as a writer and publisher with SOV Media.
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December 17, 2018This book is an entry in the 2018 Aurealis Awards, for which I am a judge. Any review will be withheld until the results of the awards are announced.
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