The Dead Zone. Where missions go to die. When a simple job turns lethal, Zurah Winters is trapped on a forbidden planet with a broken crew and the echoes of something that should've stayed buried. As the security hack for a three-person smuggling crew, Zurah is used to sketchy cargo and half-truths. Their new assignment sounds deceptively easy: escort a high-paying client into forbidden territory, drop her on a rogue world, and get out before anyone notices. No entanglements. No questions. The job goes sideways. One crewmate dies. Another is barely clinging to life. Stranded, Zurah is forced to seek help from strangers with their own agendas: a Neetho doctor who knows more than he shares; Finn, the woman funding a secret research team; and Alex, an heir to the powerful Goldsmith Consortium who has no business being in the Dead Zone. Among the shattered remains of an alien civilization and the looming Black Gates, Zurah uncovers the echoes of a past the galaxy chose to bury, but something down there remembers. Zurah can either save who she can and cut her losses, or risk waking what lurks behind the Black Gates of Objer. Abandoned Echoes is the first book in The Black Gates of Objer trilogy, a suspenseful science fiction adventure filled with dangerous alliances, ancient ruins, and secrets that refuse to stay buried.