Year of Our Lord 1777: A hardened band of international big game hunters returning from Africa are shipwrecked off a small British island. 
In exchange for new supplies and the repairing of their good ship The Calydonian, Lord Ludgate engages the men for a task they are particularly well suited find the Berserking Beasts that have been eating his subjects, including a group of young Benedictine Nuns, and destroy them.

Coffin and Rosamund finally understand their childhood connection, but there is no time for reminiscing – the Beasts are closing in, closer than they could ever have believed...