Echo Protocol (The Echo Protocol Series)

Echo Protocol (The Echo Protocol Series)

Humanity came to Erebus-6 to build a future. What it found there may erase them all. When investigator Elia Tran and her team arrive to review communication irregularities, they expect a quiet assignment of interviews and routine diagnostics. As the mysteries around the outpost deepen, they begin to realize that something is controlling everything and everyone there. But the deeper Elia looks, the more the investigation turns inward. Fragments of her own past begin to surface, memories she once chose to leave buried. As those recollections sharpen, so does the realization that the mission unfolding on Erebus-6 was shaped long before her arrival, guided by distant decision-makers whose interests extend far beyond the colony itself. Caught between what she’s uncovering on the planet and what she’s rediscovering within herself, Elia is drawn toward a revelation that reaches past the mission and into the largest unanswered question humanity has ever carried into the stars. The Echo Protocol is an atmospheric, slow-burn science fiction novel about memory, power, and the uneasy cost of understanding what waits beyond us.