Echoes of Tomorrow

When Earth falls to a devastating fungal plague, geneticist Dr. Samara Makinde joins humanity’s desperate bid for survival on DaVinci, a distant exoplanet meant to be their fresh start. But DaVinci has a secret: it harbors spores that wipe out every pregnancy, threatening to erase the colony before the next generation is born.

Samara believes she...

Nineteen years after humanity’s last hope took root on DaVinci, Phoebe Makinde lives in the shadow of her mother’s legend. Genetically engineered to survive the alien Bloom, Phoebe should embody the colony’s future. Instead, she’s plagued by migraines, seizures, and a gnawing sense she’ll never measure up.

While her peers choose careers and...

Geneticist Jianna Makinde grew up in the shadow of her famous ancestor, Samara, who saved DaVinci’s colonists from extinction by the fungal Bloom. But Samara’s cure had off-target effects that plague every DaVincian: migraines, seizures, paralysis, and worse. Jianna dreams of fixing Samara’s mistakes, but the Council refuses to fund her latest...

Geneticist Jianna Makinde has uncovered Aurelius Hofstadter’s true purpose: total control of DaVinci. Her father, Councilor Soren Makinde, is behaving erratically, and Jianna is sure that Aurelius has done something to him, but she can’t prove anything. Worse, Jianna’s best hope at fighting Aurelius has evaporated. Lucas, the first human-passing...