The Echoes of Solmara

The Echoes of Solmara Some memories were buried for a reason. Dr. Elara Vey has spent her life chasing echoes—whispers of a dead civilization in her dreams, fragments of a language no living soul should understand. When an ancient signal pulses from the abandoned planet Solmara, she knows it's calling her. But she's not the only one listening. The Dominion's warlords want the Memory Vaults hidden beneath Solmara's ruins. Their commander, Dren Vorsk, would burn galaxies to claim their power. The Whisperer—a sentient storm woven from Solmara's last breaths—warns that some doors should stay shut. And Kael-9, the android with Elara's name etched in his code, knows the terrible truth: the Vaults were never a treasure. They're a trap. As Elara's team races through crystalline ruins where time fractures and ghostly figures bleed from the walls, the past doesn't just haunt them—it hungers. The deeper they go, the more the Vaults whisper: You were there at the end. Now, Elara must decide: preserve the knowledge of a lost civilization, or erase it forever. Because beneath Solmara's corpse, something is waking up. And it remembers her. "A masterpiece of cosmic horror and melancholy beauty—like Annihilation meets Hyperion in a dying world." — SciFi Today "Alkula weaves memory, identity, and betrayal into a tapestry as haunting as it is brilliant." — Galactic Quarterly