ECHOES OF EDENParadise remembers everything.For forty years, Captain Elias Thorne has kept the colony ship Venture alive in the silence of the void. But upon reaching orbit around the target planet, Eden, the silence is broken-not by a transmission, but by a heartbeat.The planet is singing.As the Venture's hull begins to fuse with alien roots, Thorne discovers a terrifying truth: The lost colony ship Horizon didn't crash centuries ago. It was absorbed. Its crew isn't dead; they are the Echoes-preserved in amber, their minds woven into a planetary consciousness that refuses to let anyone be alone.Now, a schism threatens to tear the Venture apart. Commander Vance wants to silence the signal with fire to save the human race. The entity Lyra wants to "save" them by stripping away their individuality.Caught between the cold metal of his duty and the warm, suffocating embrace of the Hive, Thorne must answer the ultimate question: Is it better to survive in the quiet dark, or to live forever in a chorus of ghosts?A Novel by M.P. Jensen