Description:

A quarter-century has passed since the defeat of the dark sorcerer known as Baron Von Death, and peace reigns over the Quadra Terrarum. Airships sail the skies, friendship and amity flourish between nations, and war is but a distant memory. But is this peace a mere illusion? What dangers seethe beneath the surface of this placid calm?

Like a stone tossed into a tranquil lake, shattering its smooth surface into a chaos of waves, the pirate Captain Franceline Drake of the red-hulled Eschaton wrecks the apparent peace with her depredations against the ships of Camembert. It's up to Captain Acheron Zeal, of Her Majesty's Royal Navy, to capture the buccaneer and bring her to justice.

His is no easy task, however, not when the fates of the two captains become entangled in the plots of powerful and subtle men: to rule the Quadra Terrarum, or to destroy it?

Includes 11 original black-and-white illustrations.