Sea Change

Sea Change is the tenth and penultimate Widdershins book. The protagonists are former antagonists Lei Feng and Verity Cunningham as they investigate Pemberton Pryce aboard his ship The Good Intentions on his voyage to steal the Fourth Anchor.

Blurb
Things have been a little difficult for Lei Feng ever since she broke out of prison.

Having made a rather explosive exit from her previous career, Lei picked up a new job as a flunky for the self-proclaimed World's Greatest Bounty Hunter, Verity Cunningham, thinking it would be a good opportunity to turn things around and get herself on the right path. But now the repentant former villain has found herself setting off on a journey of discovery, it turns out to not quite be the one she was hoping for.

Traveling across the globe on the trail of an eccentric and sinister American millionaire, Lei and Verity set sail on the mysterious magically-powered cruise ship The Good Intentions, and soon discover that all aboard is not exactly as shipshape as it should be...

Characters

 * Lei Feng
 * Verity Cunningham
 * Pemberton Pryce
 * Patience Rattaker
 * Theadora Pryce
 * Tim Chiang
 * Doris

Cameos / Minor Role

 * Dominik Voss
 * Heinrich Wolfe
 * Eliza Swift
 * Jack O'Malley
 * Nyree

Locations

 * The Good Intentions (ship)
 * The Fourth Anchor
 * The Hunter's Folly (pub)

Website
The post-book bonus content on the website was:


 * Creative Differences - An 11-page fancomic by Mez (writing about myself in the 3rd person sucks lmao) about Ben working as a scribe for a penny-dreadful author for the day, set in the gap between Curtain Call and Witch Hunt. The original characters are from Null & Void, a Widdershins fancomic.
 * 5 pieces of guest fanart
 * A 1-page comic by Emily Gilbert (creator of the Shifting City webcomic + many Widdershins fics!) about Eliza celebrating the news about the Fourth Anchor being real

Book
The print and PDF editions of the book include 2 pages of photos, postcards and letters from the main characters:


 * A postcard from Verity to Harry informing her they are no longer rivals
 * A postcard from Tim to Sid telling him he's engaged to Doris
 * A letter from Lei to Nicola including her diary to try and prove she's turned over a new leaf
 * A postcard from Verity to Ben letting him know she'll be back in Widdershins soon
 * A note from Patience to Verity saying 'see ya soon, princess!' attached to a selfie of her escaping jail

Release
Sea Change ran on a mostly weekly release schedule between November 20th 2020 and September 23rd 2022.

The Kickstarter campaign for the physical release ran from September 23rd 2022 - October 23rd 2022 and £20,985 was pledged by 634 backers. This makes it the most successful Widdershins Kickstarter yet! The unique reward for this campaign was a set of 5 travel stickers based off the 4 Anchors and one of the University of Widdershins crest.

Easter Eggs / Trivia

 * The print and PDF editions of Sea Change contain an error where Patience's speech bubble is missing from the first panel on the page where she is leading Verity to her cabin.
 * Kazuma Kiryu and Goro Majima from the Yakuza franchise, and Hana from Yakuza 4 appear as background characters when Lei is searching the ship. Goro Majima is one of the influences behind Patience Rattaker.