Echoes Of Fire

Echoes of Fire**Synopsis The Camelot returns to duty carrying the scars of the shard’s destruction and the loss of Lieutenant Damian Adams. The crew is still healing when Starfleet issues new orders: investigate a silent world on the frontier where an entire colony vanished without a distress call.What begins as a routine survey spirals into something far more dangerous.Strange energy signatures.Ruined settlements with no bodies.Predators that hunt without being seen.And a single terrifying truth:The Hunters have returned.As the Camelot races to understand this ancient enemy, the crew faces ambushes, disappearances, and the first coordinated Hunter strike in decades. Philip’s lingering Echo imprint becomes both a liability and an unexpected key to understanding the threat. The Klingon Empire, still rebuilding, is drawn into the conflict. Even the Romulans arrive — not as enemies, but as survivors of their own Hunter encounters.When the Alpha‑Hunter makes its first move, the frontier erupts into war.Book Five chronicles the opening phase of the Hunter War:•     first contact•     the ambush•     the battle for survival•     the collapse of doctrine•     the rise of new alliances•     and the awakening of something far worse at the edge of known spaceThe Camelot must stand between the Federation and extinction — even as the Hunters mark them as prey.Echoes of Fire is a story of rising tension, shifting alliances, and the first sparks of a conflict that will reshape the quadrant