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The Shadow Worlds - Shadows over Elysium

The Shadow Worlds - Shadows over Elysium

Paperback

Series: The Shadow Worlds, Book 1

Science Fiction

ISBN13: 9798183537987
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 21 2026
Pages: 440
Weight: 1.16
Height: 1.09 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Captain Jax Mercer is no hero-just a man with too many debts and too little luck. After crash-landing on Garruk III, he discovers an alien artifact pulsing in the darkness like a living heartbeat. Inside it, Echo awakens-an ancient intelligence that marks Jax as its Guardian and turns him into a target for cultists, mercenaries, and hidden powers already fighting a war in the shadows.

His escape takes him through outposts, smuggler ports, and sterile corporate corridors to the edge of known space: the Elysium Gate, an anomaly that hangs in the void like an open wound. Beyond it lie forgotten nodes, black shipyards, and clues to an archive that must never be put back together. Because the more Echo reveals, the clearer it becomes: something out there has not vanished-it has only been waiting.

Shadows over Elysium is the opening volume of a dark science-fiction series about forbidden technologies, cosmic secrets, and the question of what remains of a man when an alien intelligence begins writing itself into him.

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