Pirates of the Seven Skies

The Mediterranean Sky, circa 1710: 

The airships of the Dutch East India Company rule the airstreams. Pirates haunt the fog. And under the wine-dark sea, There Be Krakens.  

Corvin, slippery rogue and self-described silvertongue, has the kind of past that’s left him neither trusting nor trustworthy—he’d be happy to tell you all about it, but he never tells it the same way twice. When a young deserter, Jagati, enlists his help selling a Dutch East India Company shipping schedule to pirates, Corvin sees a better deal: betray her to the pirates, betray the pirates to the law, and come away rich enough to buy an airship of his own. 

But his double-cross backfires, landing him a prisoner aboard the Turkish corsair Cassiopeia. Kept alive only so he can translate for Jagati, who’d like nothing more than to throw him to the krakens, it’s the pirate’s life for him—and it’ll take all his wits to make sure that life is longer than a short walk down the plank. 

But it’s not just his own life on the line—because with the Dutch East India Company keen to root out piracy in the Seven Skies, and a traitor treading Cassiopeia’s decks, the pirates’ very way of life is under threat. 

Soon Corvin will soon have to choose: sell out his new crewmates before they turn on him, or finally take a side in the battle for the skies.