As Captain Crowe and Tarquin approach the mouth of the Mississippi River, they encounter a burning European ship stranded on a sandbar; it'll take quick thinking and bold action to hope to save its crew and what's left of its cargo and complete their own trade mission for the black drink. Meanwhile on the outskirts of Havana Thomas Edge and Mary have just finished their first meeting with Olivia de Haveland--but the pricking of the drop of blood in Sorrowful's veins tells him someone is onto them...