The Last Lullaby of Earth

Earth is gone. Humanity survived — scattered across colony ships and space stations, cataloguing the dead from a safe distance. Elara Vance has spent fifteen years as an Archivist, decoding the final transmissions of fallen colonies: forty-seven times, she has listened to the last voices of the dying and filed them away. She is very good at not feeling anything.
Then a priority signal arrives — Earth's Final Packet, intercepted after centuries of travel. Except the transmission's origin coordinates don't match Earth's position. By 47.3 light-years.
Impossble. And yet the mathematics insist.
Elara is assigned to a classified mission aboard the Whisper, a battered transport captained by Renn — a grounded, broke, 58-year-old mechanic with scarred hands and a ship he can't afford to fix. Two people with nothing left to lose, sent on a one-way journey toward a mystery that shouldn't exist.
What they find at the coordinates will force Elara to confront the question she has buried under years of professional detachment: when an entire world is silenced, does its music survive?
The Last Lullaby of Earth is a haunting, literary science fiction novel about grief, memory, and the strange persistence of beauty at the end of everything. For readers of Station Eleven, Piranesi, and A Memory Called Empire.