Blunder

Blunder - Book 2

The sky keeps score. And it never forgets a debt.

Cole Draven has been in Galdia for under two weeks, but the Blightwind already flies under a royal banner... crimson silk snapping high, a promise of protection that comes with invisible weight. The Queen's favor is ironclad. A princess has chosen the deck over the palace. A half-orc has traded blood for loyalty. A bunny-kin thief has stopped running. Three cat-kin guards watch with golden eyes. The ship's hold is heavy with coin from the Northern Treasury, and the crew is stronger than ever.

But favor is never free.

The Blightwind needs refitting... patched hulls, reinforced engines, upgraded rigging, new weapons for whatever waits beyond the northern ridge. The docks of Aetherion are full of new faces: suppliers, informants, allies, and strangers who look at Cole with curiosity... or hunger. Loyalty is tested every day... old bonds stretched, new ones forged, choices made in quiet corners and loud taverns. The ship is changing. The crew is changing. And Cole... once just a warehouse worker from Houston... is changing most of all.

He never asked to lead. Vex never asked to share. Trix never asked to wait. Lirien never asked to leave her palace. Feima never asked to betray her blood. Ginny never asked to stop running.

Yet here they are... bound together by choice, by the unbreakable truth that family isn't born; it's built in open sky, shared blood, and nights that leave no one untouched.

The Blightwind sails north... royal colors high, engines hot, crew ready. Repairs wait. New faces wait. Loyalty waits.

And the sky is still hungry.

A steampunk isekai adventure of chosen family, fierce loyalty, sky battles, and heat that refuses to be contained. No fate. No prophecy. Just one man who fell... and the women who refuse to let him fall again.

Blunder - Book 2
The fall was only the beginning.
The flight is where it gets real.