How do you save someone you love when they have become the most dangerous person in the galaxy?

Captain Barnaby Blackwater was a friend, a pirate, and a hero. Now he commands the Crocodile Cult, the most powerful crime family in the Clockwork Constellation, wielding an ancient cursed relic that bends even an immortal queen to his will. Nobody knows what broke him. Nobody knows if he can be brought back.

Clockmaker Millicent Gearwright intends to find out.

To reach Barnaby, she will need Gideon Highwire, a steeplejack who runs the mile-high spires of Gablehaven as most men walk flat ground, and Stark Maddox, a rogue pilot with dangerous knowledge of the psychic warriors called Mindshredders.

But reaching Barnaby means going through the Mindshredders first?warriors who do not fight with weapons, but with what is inside your own mind. It means confronting Queen Maatkara, an immortal being of dangerous beauty who has ruled from the shadows for centuries. And it means finding a way aboard the Revenant Tempest, the most feared ship in the Clockwork Constellation, crewed by the dead and answering to no living captain.

Every step closer to Barnaby demands a price. Not in gold. Not in blood. In the things you cannot get back.

For fans of Starter Villain, Service Model, and The Stardust Grail ? a clockwork-charged, can't-put-it-down space adventure of rooftop chases, boarding raids, gadget-and-blade fights, and mind-control stakes where a loyal crew survives by outthinking enemies bigger than empires.

Book Two of the Clockwork Constellation Trilogy.