The First Echo

He's lost her across a hundred timelines. This time, he'll burn the world to find her. The sky is broken. The cities lie in ruins. Time is unraveling—and something darker waits in its shadow. In a world poisoned by its own past, Robert walks through collapsing timelines and haunted forests, searching for Camille—the woman torn from him by a war he can't remember starting. At his side: a boy who sees the future, survivors clinging to hope, and beings called Echoes, bound to memory and grief. But time has a master. Eli, a ruthless time-walker, has seen how the future ends—his defeat, always inevitable. Desperate to change it, he hunts Robert and the boy across time, leaving entire worlds in ash. As past and future collapse into war, Robert must survive more than Eli. He must survive time itself—and the truth waiting on the other side. A dark, emotionally driven story of survival, memory, and war across broken timelines. For readers who love the haunted tone of Kindred, the ambition of The Bone Clocks, and the tragic beauty of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue. Follow J.H.Francisco_Author on Instagram to see more about this book including reviews and future updates.