Generations after the Ark Genesis first left Earth, Nina Aurion-Cole is about to become the first human being to set foot on a world no one of her species has ever touched.

Solenne turns slowly beneath her capsule ? a blue and ochre disk her ancestors chose from twenty-two light-years away, based on nothing but spectroscopy and hope. Fifteen days in orbit have given her team every simulation, every protocol, every contingency training could offer. None of it prepared her for the weight of the hatch about to open.

But Solenne was never empty. Structures rise from its surface that no orbital scan predicted ? vast, deliberate, and far older than any human footprint could ever be. The descendants of the five thousand souls who left Earth didn't just find a new home. They found a world that seems to have been expecting them.

The Echo of Earth is the fourth book in The Aurion Legacy, a hard science fiction saga about what it means to finally arrive somewhere your ancestors spent their whole lives just imagining ? and about the difference between an empty world and a waiting one.

Continues the saga that began in Stellar Exodus.