The First Echoes
Read the beginning of Echoes of Us before anyone else
What You’ll Receive
When you pre-order Echoes of Us, you’ll receive:
🖤 Instant access to The First Echoes (opening chapters)
🔥 A post-apocalyptic story rooted in emotion, not just destruction
⛏️ Underground survival, found family, and impossible choices
📖 Early access delivered straight to your inbox
No waiting. No hoops. Just the story.
Why Pre-Order?
Pre-orders don’t just support the book—they help it reach the readers who need it most.
By pre-ordering, you’re:
supporting an indie author directly
helping Echoes of Us reach a wider audience
getting early access to a story years in the making
This book has lived with me for a long time.
I can’t wait to share its first heartbeat with you.
Ready to Hear the First Echoes?
Pre-order Echoes of Us today and receive The First Echoes instantly.
Echoes of Us releases June 2026
Early-access chapters available for a limited time
When the world goes quiet, what echoes through the ruins is love, grief, and everything we couldn’t outrun.
The end of the world doesn’t come with answers.
It comes with panic, fire, silence—and the people you choose to survive it with.
Echoes of Us is a post-apocalyptic novel about underground survival, found family, and the terrifying truth that the most dangerous things aren’t always what falls from the sky.
What Are “The First Echoes”?
The First Echoes is an exclusive early-access sampler of Echoes of Us, available only to readers who pre-order the book.
Inside, you’ll read the opening chapters—where:
The disaster is announced
The world begins to burn
And survival pushes people underground
This is where the story starts to change people.
Not a summary.
Not a teaser paragraph.
The real beginning.
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Arden Coutts is a queer, trans author based in Nebraska who writes emotionally driven fiction rooted in grief, resilience, and love. Their work spans romantic suspense, post-apocalyptic fiction, fantasy, and horror, with a strong focus on queer identity and found family. Arden also hosts LGBTQ+ writing retreats through Wandering Creative Life and believes deeply in storytelling as a tool for healing and connection.
