Echoes in the Black

Somewhere beyond the light, the darkness is waiting.Once, Marcus Carpenter was captain of the Theseus, with a ship, a crew and a life worth returning to.Then one cargo run destroyed everything.Four years later, Marcus is an ex-con breaking parole aboard the ageing freighter Charon. The ship is barely spaceworthy, the destination has been hidden from him, and the sealed cargo was loaded before he arrived.Its instructions are simple:DO NOT APPROACH.DO NOT OPEN.The money could buy Marcus his freedom. All he has to do is follow a chain of ancient Nav Lanterns through the uncharted region known as the Veil and complete the delivery alone. The Charon’s route leads into one of the oldest regions of explored space-an abandoned expanse whose original purpose has been lost to history, rumour and ghost stories.All that remains are the Nav Lanterns.Centuries ago, they lit the way for humanity’s first journeys into the deep. Now they drift alone in the cold beyond the hyperspace lanes, marking a path through a region most ships learned to avoid.As Marcus follows their fading light farther into the Veil, the silence begins to feel less empty.And the cargo beneath the black tarp waits.Echoes in the Black is a slow-burn science-fiction horror novel of isolation, guilt and cosmic dread, set aboard a decaying spacecraft travelling far beyond the edge of known space.Book One of The Veil Continuum. 6