TThe gates were humanity's greatest achievement. Now, they may be its tomb...
In the far future, jumpgates opened the stars-and humanity never looked back.
Empires rose. Noble houses carved up entire systems. Mercenaries and miners carved out what was left.
Caio Falc o was good at surviving.
Then he came home early.
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.
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.
The gate is broken. Ships that approach it vanish. And something inside has been broadcasting for eighty-three years.
When Caio pulls the pod from the wreckage, he doesn't just steal salvage.
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.
Now pursued by a vengeful house and shadowed by something far worse, Caio faces a choice:
Keep running...
-or stand and fight for a galaxy teetering on the edge of annihilation.
The Jumpgate Echo is a gritty, high-stakes space thriller perfect for fans of The Expanse, Mass Effect, and outlaw space operas packed with epic battles, dangerous alliances, and cosmic mysteries that refuse to stay buried.