AustLit

'Jardan and his father ply the wilderness of Open Air, keeping one step ahead of marauders as they scrape a meagre existence from the ocean-covered world. When their airship is destroyed, Jardan finds himself cast adrift with nothing but a knife and a troublesome young woman. As Jardan struggles to remain the Airman his father raised him to be, he blazes a bloody trail across the watery planet. He may succeed, if he can escape from hordes of pirates, a sociopathic bounty hunter, and a sadistic madwoman bent on world conquest ... And if the pirate girl doesn't kill him first.' (Publication summary)