The vanished birds

Nia Imani is a woman out of place and outside of time, a captain of a transport ship contracted to the Umbrai corporation, and Fumiko Nakajima, the great scientist responsible for the design of bird-like Stations that Umbrai uses to control vast tracts of space. Together, they set out to protect A boy, one of the few born with the gift of the Jaunt. The ability to travel instantly anywhere in the universe.