Ember's Echo (The Nimbus Collection Book 2)

Uriel Blake is the newest member of the Parliamentary Search and Rescue Squad. His first major mission in the cross-species recovery team begins shortly after contact is lost with a group of human scientists and archaeologists investigating the dead civilization of a remote world. The inexperienced Uriel knows he has yet to see even a sliver of what the Nimbus galaxy has to offer, but what he and his team discover on Ember is something not even his veteran comrades could account for.