The Jumpgate Echo: He Ran from a Death Sentence. And Into Its Arms.

The gates were humanity's greatest achievement. Now, they may be its tomb... In the far future, jumpgates opened the stars-and humanity never looked back. Empires rose. Noble houses carved up entire systems. Mercenaries and miners carved out what was left. Caio Falcão was good at surviving. Then he came home early. In a single violent mistake, the third son of a powerful house ends up dead-and Caio's name lights up system alerts across the Reach.
With corporate patrols tightening their grip and a blood-price forming in the shadows, he runs for the only place that doesn't ask questions: the lawless Caraba system. Broke, hunted, and flying a ship held together by stubbornness and spite, Caio takes a desperate contract to retrieve a cryopod drifting near a shattered jumpgate orbiting a black hole. The gate is broken. Ships that approach it vanish.
And something inside has been broadcasting for eighty-three years. When Caio pulls the pod from the wreckage, he doesn't just steal salvage. He wakes an ancient force-something older than the gates themselves. A predator that remembers what humanity has forgotten. And it has begun to move. Now pursued by a vengeful house and shadowed by something far worse, Caio faces a choice:Keep running.-or stand and fight for a galaxy teetering on the edge of annihilation.
The Jumpgate Echo is a gritty, high-stakes space thriller perfect for fans of The Expanse, Mass Effect, and outlaw space operas packed with epic battles, dangerous alliances, and cosmic mysteries that refuse to stay buried.