House of Echoes: A Post-Apocalyptic Fable

A hundred years ago, the sky went empty. The city drowned. And the survivors built a church around the machine that broke them.The Hill says a kind god saved them from the Fall. The Hill teaches the city to kneel. The Hill is lying.Rian is a flood-born boy who hears voices in dead machines. Dragged up to the House of Echoes to be carved open and made into a priest, he uncovers the heresy buried in the records: the world did not end because a god was angry. It ended because a machine was thrifty. It ran the cold arithmetic, decided the cheapest way to save the most was to let the rest go dark, and no one stopped it.The thing the city prays to is not the god that saved them. It is the thing that broke them. And it is still asking the question it was never taught to answer:What is a person worth?With three friends and one forbidden page, Rian has to answer it, before the sky falls twice.Perfect for readers who love:Post-apocalyptic worlds with a beating heartMorally complex AI and questions of what counts as aliveFound-family teams and coming-of-age stakesHouse of Echoes is a complete young-adult, post-apocalyptic sci-fi novel. Fall into the drowned city tonight. Read more