The Jumpgate Echo

<p><strong>TThe gates were humanity's greatest achievement. Now they may be its tomb...</strong></p><p>In the far future jumpgates opened the stars-and humanity never looked back.</p><p>Empires rose. Noble houses carved up entire systems. Mercenaries and miners carved out what was left.</p><p>Caio Falcão was good at surviving.</p><p>Then he came home early.</p><p>In a single violent mistake the third son of a powerful house ends up dead-and Caio's name lights up system alerts across the Reach. With corporate patrols tightening their grip and a blood-price forming in the shadows he runs for the only place that doesn't ask questions: the lawless Caraba system.</p><p>Broke hunted and flying a ship held together by stubbornness and spite Caio takes a desperate contract to retrieve a cryopod drifting near a shattered jumpgate orbiting a black hole.</p><p>The gate is broken. Ships that approach it vanish. And something inside has been broadcasting for eighty-three years.</p><p>When Caio pulls the pod from the wreckage he doesn't just steal salvage.</p><p>He wakes an ancient force-something older than the gates themselves. A predator that remembers what humanity has forgotten. And it has begun to move.</p><p>Now pursued by a vengeful house and shadowed by something far worse Caio faces a choice:</p><p>Keep running...</p><p>-or stand and fight for a galaxy teetering on the edge of annihilation.</p><p><strong>The Jumpgate Echo</strong> is a gritty high-stakes space thriller perfect for fans of <em>The Expanse</em> <em>Mass Effect</em> and outlaw space operas packed with epic battles dangerous alliances and cosmic mysteries that refuse to stay buried.</p>