Horizon Shift

This is an Apple Books audiobook narrated by a digital voice based on a human narrator.

To save his ship and crew, Captain Temms Rogers uses an untested alien device which hurls the Doubtful and its occupants away from a massive space battle. Rogers awakens to find his ship crippled and his crew decimated. They are lost in an unknown region of space, but they are but not alone. With old enemies lying in wait, Rogers must turn to a powerful local group called the Consortium in order to effect repairs to his ship and to find needed supplies. Then a strange autistic boy is found hiding in the ship's cargo bay. Could the boy help save the Doubtful and its crew? [Book 1 of the Horizon Crossover series]