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Four years after surviving the haunting that nearly destroyed their family, Martin and Lindsay Eastman have rebuilt their lives in the Davis Mountains of West Texas. They have children, a growing vineyard, and every reason to believe the dead have finally left them alone.

Then a gifted high school football player dies by suicide.

Before his death, Tony Mortin and four friends trespassed onto the grounds of Fort Davis after midnight. Beneath the light of a setting first-quarter Moon, they heard the thunder of cavalry horses racing across the empty parade ground. A strange silver cloud swept toward them, passed directly through Tony, and vanished.

Afterward, Tony was different.

When Sheriff Armando Villareal discovers that Tony left behind a single mysterious name, Spandel, and three unexplained numbers, the investigation begins to reach backward through history. Forgotten county records reveal other witnesses, separated by decades, who described the same impossible horses, the same luminous formation, and the same disturbing change in those it touched.

The pattern leads Martin, Lindsay, Villareal, and Tony’s former girlfriend, Faye Ortega, toward the buried history of Major William Spandel and a cavalry command that ended in disaster more than a century ago.

But the soldiers are not simply haunting Fort Davis.

They are still following orders.

And as the first-quarter Moon returns, the dead begin reaching for the living once again.

Set among the stark rhyolite cliffs, isolated ranches, historic military ruins, and dark skies of the Davis Mountains, Echoes of a Command is a supernatural mystery about guilt, duty, grief, and the terrible power of an order that was never truly rescinded.

The dead still march when an old command remains.

Kyle Vernon grew up in Midland, Texas, and spent much of his youth in the Davis Mountains, a landscape that left a lasting mark on both his imagination and his writing.Now living in Lubbock, Texas, he teaches astronomy at Frenship High School, where he shares his fascination with science, history, and the night sky with a new generation of students. His teaching career has also taken him overseas and included work with members of the U.S. military.Vernon's fiction is rooted in the history, geography, and atmosphere of West Texas. His Davis Mountains novels blend supernatural mystery with regional history, exploring the ways old events, forgotten choices, and unresolved guilt can echo across generations.He is the author of "A Davis Mountains Ghost Story" and "Echoes of Command", as well as books for younger readers. He publishes through Digby Star LLC and continues to draw inspiration from the high desert, mountain skies, and long memories of far West Texas.