The story of Smoke and Mira featured a single ghost. The book of The Desolation Sound hosts an entire legion of creatures that exist only to kill. Emigrating over decades from throughout the entire planet, these monsters now hide within the lust forestry of British Columbia. Fighting against their own extinction, they now emerge to terrorize the residents of the quiet town of Whispere. But their existence is is now revealed to the elite military force led by the "Hippo," and young Joseph Sound. They are tasked with the protection of these citizens, and truly, the world. Pulled from generational legends from nearly every culture across the globe, the fate of an ancient species finds itself in the hands of a single soldier, and the life of an odd little girl.