Captain Nathan Vaughn commands Echo Response Battalion Seven, an elite Marine unit with the most dangerous assignment in the Concord Fleet.
They don't fight the enemy.
They clean up what war leaves behind.
Every time a starship makes a faster-than-light combat jump, reality fractures. For a few impossible moments, alternate futures spill into the present, creating Echoes—perfect copies of ships and crews pulled from tomorrows that never happened. Most vanish within seconds.
Then one Echo refuses to disappear.
The Marine remembers dying in a battle that hasn't been fought.
Soon another survivor appears. Then another. Each carries a flawless memory of a single death, each from the same impossible future. Alone, their memories are meaningless. Together, they reveal fragments of a catastrophe racing toward humanity.
As the number of persistent Echoes grows, so does an invisible force that draws the attention of an ancient enemy determined to erase humanity before the future can unfold. Fleet Command orders the Echoes contained. A secretive Directorate wants them silenced. But Vaughn begins to suspect the Echoes aren't a malfunction.
They're a warning.
With civilization hanging on the outcome of a war no one fully understands, Vaughn must choose between obeying orders that have protected humanity for decades—or trusting soldiers who technically never existed.
Because if the Echoes are telling the truth...
Humanity has already lost.
And the final battle has already begun.
Future Casualties is a gripping standalone military science fiction thriller packed with brutal space combat, elite Space Marines, high-stakes first contact, breathtaking fleet battles, and an unforgettable mystery that unfolds one impossible memory at a time. Perfect for readers of James S. A. Corey, Craig Alanson, Jack Campbell, Marko Kloos, and Joshua Dalzelle.
