Ocean’s Echo

Tennalhin Halkana is a reader: one who can read people’s minds and navigate the chaotic space around the gateways to the full universe. When his exploits become too much for his aunt, Tennal is conscripted into the military and prepped to sync with an “architect,” who will be able to influence and control him. A sync merges the reader’s and architect’s minds, and neither Tennal nor Lieutenant Surit Yeni, the architect chosen, want this to happen. So they pretend to sync in order to finish their job of a salvage retrieval, get Surit’s promised promotion, and find a way for Tennal to escape. When the salvage reveals not only a powerful treasure that could bring about a war, but the truth behind the traitorous legacy of Surit’s mother, the two realize they may have to complete the sync to save themselves from the military—and save their world.