在年轻的Kirra离开澳大利亚的家去南非和她的祖父一起避暑后，她很快就发现了一只小逆戟鲸搁浅在她祖父破旧的海滨游乐园附近的泻湖上。她给这只孤独的鲸鱼起名叫威利，并开始了一项伟大的任务，带领这只小家伙回到他焦虑的鲸群。

Snarky, monster-porn-dealing teen, Baxter Zevcenko, might be a serial killer. His girlfriend, Esme, is missing, and he’s the prime suspect. To clear his name, he’ll turn to Cape Town’s grizzliest, drunkest bounty hunter, Jackson ‘Jackie’ Ronin. Little does he know that Ronin is a supernatural bounty-hunter, and that he’s about to be dragged headlong into a deep, dark Cape Town underbelly full of monsters and myth, shadowy government forces, bloodthirsty crow-men and a conspiracy across time and space.

一位患有创伤后应激障碍（PTSD）的前消防队员被指控犯下了一桩他甚至都不记得的罪行，他因此逃之夭夭。