They built a perfect world on a foundation of erased pain. Now, the ghosts are screaming to be heard. In the sterile perfection of Nexus City, every citizen is happy. Every life is optimized. Every memory of humanity's chaotic, emotional past has been methodically sanitized and locked away. Elara is an Archivist. Her job is to find the last vestiges of that pain-a mother's grief, a soldier's terror-and erase them. She is a guardian of the city's placid, dreamless sleep. But one day, she touches a forgotten artifact... and the system breaks. She is flooded with a memory that isn't hers: the vertigo of a fall from a skyscraper, the sharp taste of blood, the terror of a life ending. The glitch isn't in the archive; it's in her blood. A genetic flaw that allows her to hear the echoes of the dead. Suddenly, the city's perfect hum sounds like a scream. The serene face of Warden Anya, the enforcer of this utopia, becomes the face of a predator. And Elara, the quiet librarian of forgotten sorrows, becomes the single most dangerous person alive. Hunted and alone, Elara must choose. Does she accept the comfortable lie to protect the brother whose life depends on the system? Or does she follow the echoes into the city's grimy underbelly, joining a fractured rebellion of zealots and survivors to uncover the devastating truth of what was sacrificed for peace? If you love the mind-bending concepts of *Blade Runner*, the chilling societies of *Brave New World*, and the haunting characters of *Station Eleven*, you will be consumed by this masterful literary sci-fi thriller. This is a story about the memories we carry in our genes, and the terrible, beautiful price of feeling again. Experience the silence. Read *Echoes of the Void* today.