In a future where memories can be erased, rewritten, and relived, Eira Lovell, a reclusive AI engineer, accidentally unlocks a connection to the past—one that links her to a woman long lost to history: Rowan Hale. A woman who died decades ago in a revolution erased from the world’s memory.

But Rowan isn’t gone.
She remembers Eira.

As Eira dives deeper into the classified Mnemosyne Project, she discovers a hidden network of queer women whose love stories and struggles have been obliterated from history. From a Victorian composer whose music defied her time, to a WWII pilot whose love for another woman cost her everything, from a 1970s activist who was silenced to a girl who burned for justice, their voices long forgotten now refuse to remain unheard.

And as these women’s stories unravel, Eira begins to wonder:
Is she just a witness to history—or is she bound to it?
Is her own love story already written in the stars?

A lyrical, haunting journey through time, The Echo Between Stars is a celebration of forgotten voices, the persistence of love, and the defiant act of remembering. It explores the complex intersections of queer identity, historical erasure, and the love that transcends time itself.

The monorail burst through the final tunnel into a wash of cold night air.


For the first time in days, they could see the stars.


The exit station—a long-abandoned freight hub—was swarming with Mnemosyne enforcers. Black-clad, faceless, and armed. Their transports blocked the rails. Spotlights cut across the monorail's windows like searchlights in a warzone.


"Looks like they rolled out everything they had," Ash muttered.


Rowan took a deep breath. "Then we give them everything we are."


Dev was already at the control panel, rerouting power. "We've got five minutes before they breach the train. Less if they override the failsafe."


Eira looked at the survivors—half-conscious, many still trembling, all carrying shards of lives not their own.


"This isn't just about us," she said. "If they wipe these people, they erase proof that Mnemosyne ever existed."


Rowan nodded. "Then we protect the truth."


Ash opened the weapons crate they'd stolen from a security bay below the Ark. Pulse rifles, EMP grenades, a shock bow. Rowan armed the strongest survivors, training them quickly.


Eira handed out memory tags—devices she'd reprogrammed to store fragments of their recovered minds. "Even if we fall, these get out."


Dev linked the monorail's emergency batteries to the pulse beacon. "We can jumpstart the outer grid, create a thirty-second blackout."


Ash grinned. "Just enough for a miracle."


Then came the roar of boots—dozens of enforcers closing in.


Rowan, Ash, and Eira led the charge, moving like one organism. They danced through gunfire, drew chaos into their orbit, held the line while Dev snuck survivors through the shattered freight entrance.


A bullet grazed Ash's arm. Rowan took a hit to the shoulder and kept moving.


Eira hesitated—then turned to flee, dragging a crying teenager with her.


Behind them, the grid exploded with light.


Rowan stood alone on the rail, baton raised, blood dripping.


From above, a voice rang out over the loudspeakers:


"You are traitors to the order. You are anomalies. You will be erased."


Rowan's voice was soft, but it echoed clear:


"Then I'll burn the order down with me."


Chapter 19 - Chapter 19: The Edge of Light