A Chain Across the Dawn by Drew Williams

 

Yeah, it's a sequel that's plausibly going to turn into a trilogy (or even worse, an indefinite ongoing series) and while that's not ideal, the writing here is good enough--both in the turns of phrase (which are frequently laugh-out-loud hilarious) and in the story (which centers on the young woman rescued in the previous book)--that I'm at least willing to forgive the sequel thing, and I'm provisionally interested in whatever book might come next. There are clearly things planted here for at least one more book in ways they weren't in The Stars Now Unclaimed.