Heart of Steel

Steampunk alternate Victorian era in a world with dirigibles, nanoagents, mechanical flesh, zombies. I think I still like the first book better. However, this one has a strong lead female character who is an experienced badass captain of an Airship. Yasmeen, captain of Lady Corsair, and Archimedes Fox, adventurer, go out on a journey to search for a treasured sketch from Leonardo da Vinci. There is also revenge but that wasn't too clear to me. Good fighting sequences with zombies, but in the end, I didn't get who/what they were fighting against really.
P.S.: That cover is terrible. Yasmeen should be in it.

This was the second in the Iron Seas series and it was even better than the first. This story-line doesn't continue with the characters Mina or The Iron Duke but changes POV to Kick Ass Airship Captain, Yasmeen and Archimedes Fox famous explorer and hero of popular novellas in this steampunk world.
This story starts after the first book and Archimedes has reappeared after Yasmeen dropped him overboard in zombie-infested Venice.
First thing I loved, Archimedes is not an Alpha. Yasmeen was also another great head-strong, interdependent, and complex character. And Zenobia is a new character I would love to hear more about.
It was a fun adventure book. Maybe some of the mystery was solved a bit to clean and quick but it is a minor complaint.
I do miss the character Scarsdale from the first novel.