The Caliban continues toward Barbados with Sam Axe to help him face the judgment of the Brothers Pimm Society, whose ship he'd been sailing for far longer than intended... but as they do, Thomas Edge investigates the strange ivory reliquary recovered from their raid on Jamaica. Meanwhile in Barbados Mary is after a lost treasure of their own in Venezuela that Hawley had discovered--but not before tipping off Sorrowful's dread father, Johnny Bibles, about the mystery...