Dead Men Say No Prayers — Stephen Lewis

As volume two opens, martial law has closed the port of Vormay and Captain Aedric Storm, a man hunted for murder, watches as constables and militia soldiers rampage across the city-state. His gambit to secure war profiteering contracts is lost, as are his companions who shared the terrible secret of Teshgate and the world to come. But the captain has found a surprising new ally in the towering form of Silversword priestess Jessica Tallianos, whom he rescued from certain death. Now Aedric must find means to persuade the volatile Strikeleader that their causes are aligned and that she should parlay on their behalf. Jessica's providence supersedes the petty concerns of pirates and rovers, however, and the Strikeleader stands at the center of the flames of religious conflict that continue to lick the skies. Though her order is hopelessly outnumbered, she does not yet know Aedric's sloop carries a relic of immense and deadly power that, in the right hands, could reshape the outcome of all of Pheronia.