Trevannock

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Cornwall has learned to watch the horizon. For as long as anyone in Trevannock can remember, the tide has brought two things: fish, and the Adunbi Imperium's procurement fleets, the ships that arrive to take what the ledgers call "surplus souls." A name struck out. A number assigned. A word, kpa, that means you are no longer a person at all. Elias Hollowell has spent his life reading the sea, not fighting it. But when the fleet finally comes for his parish, it takes almost everyone he loves, and leaves him with only one thing worth protecting: Cillian Brennan, a boy not yet old enough to understand what he's lost. Chained in the hold of the slave ship Iyalode, bound for the auction yards of Port Ojo on a coast that was never meant to own them, Elias makes a promise he has no right to keep: that whatever else the crossing takes, it will not take Cillian too. Trevannock is Book One of the Crossing-Kin series, a devastating, unflinching alternate history that inverts the transatlantic slave trade and asks the question at its heart from the other side of the ledger: what does an empire owe the people it decides are not people at all? Narrated by Anthony Adeloye himself, in his own voice, brought to the page through an authorized voice clone built specifically for this book. Over ten and a half hours of continuous narration, and the first of a planned five-book series.