Echoes of the Rift Grave-Wake Book I

Book Description*

In the uncharted edges of known space, some echoes should never be heard.

The Tattered Star wasn’t built for heroism. A patched-together relic from a hundred wars ago, it’s home to a crew of survivors, smugglers, and exiles just trying to outrun the ghosts of their past. But when a strange distress signal lures them to a silent ship drifting at the edge of a massive, reality-warping anomaly known only as the Rift, they uncover something that was never meant to be found.

Inside the derelict vessel lies a relic—ancient, powerful, and cursed.

At first, it seems like salvation. The artifact hums with dormant power, a potential fortune for those reckless enough to wield it. But the deeper they go, the stranger things become. Systems fail. Shadows move on their own. The crew begins seeing things that shouldn’t exist—visions of dead loved ones, twisted futures, impossible memories.

As they’re pulled deeper into the Rift, the crew realizes they’ve crossed into a realm where time and sanity unravel. Nightmares become real. Whispers echo in the metal. Something waits in the dark—and it wants them. One by one, they begin to fall under the artifact’s influence, and loyalties fracture under the weight of fear, ambition, and buried guilt.

Captain Vance Thorne, haunted by war and loss, must keep the fractured crew alive as reality collapses around them. Renna, a hardened scavenger with a criminal past, knows more about the artifact than she lets on. And Pax, a rogue AI in a borrowed body, may be the only one capable of understanding what they’ve unleashed.

But there are worse things than death out in the void. The artifact didn’t just survive the Rift. It belongs to it.

Now, hunted by a faceless entity that wears the memories of the dead and stalks the corridors of the Tattered Star, the crew must face the truth: they haven’t just found a cursed relic—they’ve awakened something ancient. Something that remembers the first wars between stars. Something that feeds on identity and fear. Something that wants to use them to break back into reality.

What begins as a salvage run becomes a desperate fight for survival, identity, and the soul of the galaxy.

Echoes of the Rift: Grave-Wake is the harrowing first volume in the Black Star Requiem saga—a bold, brutal fusion of science fiction, cosmic horror, space fantasy, and brooding thriller. With dark mystery, relentless tension, and cinematic, character-driven storytelling, this is a space opera for fans of Alien, Event Horizon, The Expanse, and Mass Effect—but darker, sharper, and more twisted.

The void has teeth. And it remembers.

Audience

Language*

English

Audience*

General Adult

Categories & Keywords

Primary Category*

Science Fiction & Fantasy > High Tech and Hard Science Fiction > Science Fiction - Cyberpunk - Other

Other Categories

Science Fiction & Fantasy > Fantasy Fiction > Dark Fantasy

Thrillers > Action & Adventure Fiction