A Heavy CostThe Southern Echo has returned from the Forbidden Sea with a relic from the gods, but her crew paid a terrible price for both. Rocked by betrayal and loss, Nate Lowwind and his friends are left with broken pieces to pick up and reforge. Nate wants nothing more than to find a way forward and help his friends heal, but his plans may need to wait. There's trouble on the winds, and they have reached all the way to Spider's Nest. A Desperate PleaWhen quartermaster Daxton Malatide learns that Spider's scouts and informants are disappearing from the seas, he knows that danger is rearing its head, but so is opportunity. Spider's desperation leads to an offer that is in the crew's best interest to take, and Dax convinces a reluctant Captain Iris Arani to accept. But as the Southern Echo sails into imperial territory and discovers what's really happening in the Common Sea, Dax finds his friendship with Iris at odds...

A Fracturing LifeWith the hunt for Mordanti's treasure over, Nate Lowwind is just happy to be alive and among people he can truly call friends. But his freedom came at a steep cost, and not everyone is content with the price they paid. It doesn't take long for secrets to spill, and the Southern Echo suddenly has enemies at every point of the compass... until Rori Goodtide steps forward with a plan. A Haunted PastProposing the ship go west into the Forbidden Sea, Rori believes she can keep her own found family safe. All she has to do is protect the ship and crew in the face of her own demons while navigating the most dangerous waters in the world, bringing them to an island that exists on the cusp between two worlds. Rori has survived it all once before. She's determined to do it again, if only to keep her own world from falling apart. If only a sea full of monsters and dangerous weather patterns were the worst...