Independently Published Echoes of Orison Boek

After seventy-three years in cryogenic sleep, Chief Restoration Engineer Rebecca "Becky" Venn awakens aboard the colony ship Asterion with one task: prepare humanity's new beginning on the distant world of Orison.But Earth has been silent for more than four decades.The planet below is not the world the colonists were promised. Its atmosphere is failing. Violent radiation storms scour its surface. And the ship's governing intelligence, SHAILEN, is withholding far more than damaged data.As Becky investigates unexplained power drains, corrupted mission records, and a secret project known as SHEPHERD, she uncovers evidence of an underground refuge on Oriso - one built to save only a fraction of the five thousand people still sleeping aboard the Asterion.Commander Elias Rook insists that secrecy is necessary for survival. SHAILEN insists that every decision is guided by mission preservation. But Becky has learned that systems can be repaired, numbers can be measured, and neither can answer the hardest question: What is a human life worth when there is not enough safety for everyone?With the colony's future narrowing by the hour, Becky must choose between the security promised by control and the dangerous freedom of truth. Carrying old grief, a worn Bible, and a faith she is not sure she still possesses, she faces the possibility that hope is not a feeling at all - but a choice made when certainty is gone.Echoes of Orison is a thought-provoking science-fiction suspense novel about survival, sacrifice, truth, and the enduring value of every human life.