Greystone Series

Portents is a city like no other—and one that Detective Greg Loren can't wait to escape. Since his wife's death years earlier, Loren has looked forward to the moment he can leave the city of Portents for good—and never look back. But fate has another plan for Loren. Called back to duty, Loren finds himself embroiled in a series of murders that has shaken the city. Together with Soriya Greystone, a young woman with unearthly powers, Loren must work quickly to find the otherworldly being that is killing citizens of Portents one at a time. Loren is tasked with deciphering the mysterious signs left at each of the crime scenes…even if it means traveling to worlds not his own to do so. Fast-paced and thrilling, Lou Paduano's debut novel Signs of Portents will leave you on the edge of your seat and turning page after page.

Death has come to the city of Portents.   Dozens have fallen before a mysterious menace hiding among them. Their only connection is the grisly condition of their bodies—hollowed-out chasms where their eyes used to be.   Setting aside the aging case on his wife's murder, Detective Greg Loren has returned to the city with the task of stopping the bearer of the Medusa coin—an artifact with power over Death himself—from continuing to slaughter the people of Portents.   Soriya, no longer able to control the enigmatic Greystone, grapples with the decision to forge ahead in the case on her own, leaving Loren behind. But without the two counterbalancing each other, Death may be the force that levels them both.   Lou Paduano's The Medusa Coin, the third exciting installment in the Greystone series, promises to raise the stakes to even greater heights, offering glimpses of a darker side to Portents readers never imagined.

Six tales of monsters, the dead rising, and the terrors of Portents.   The beasts Detective Loren and Soriya Greystone battled in Lou Paduano's debut book Signs of Portents were just a hint of what lurks in the city. Tales from Portents explores the city's immersive history, including stories of Loren's descent after his wife's death—and his opportunity to have her rise from the grave. Among the pages, Soriya battles gremlins, navigates lessons with Mentor, and meets the werewolf Luchik. Follow new characters with expansive histories as they come face to face with the horrors of Portents—both human and otherwise.   From the Greystone Collection, Tales from Portents navigates the cases that make even Detective Loren lie awake at night.

Detective Greg Loren faces his darkest hour in this thrilling prequel to Signs of Portents.   With his career joining his personal life on a downward slide toward oblivion, Loren is running out of time and patience. Pulled into yet another in an endless series of supernatural cases, he uncovers a series of grave robberies that are more than they seem.   What is the Church of the Second Coming? And what does it have to do with Loren's deceased wife, Beth?   With everything on the line, will Loren sacrifice his future to reclaim his past? Will his partner and confidante, Soriya Greystone, stand with him or against him in his decision?   No one walks away unscathed in this scintillating chapter of the Greystone series.

The dark pathways of Portents tell of frightful demons and characters' surprising histories. Detective Loren and Soriya Greystone's journeys continue in the next series of tales in the Greystone Collection, Pathways in the Dark. Discover new monsters in Portents, including a phoenix, an onna-bugeisha, and the cult of Anubis. Delve deeper into Detective Samantha Myers' secretive past, and follow Captain Ruiz as he continues to be plagued by the demons of Portents, even during his leave of absence. As Loren and Soriya battle the city's monsters and their fractured relationship alike, they come to realize that everyone has two stories…and that nobody can be trusted, no matter how well you think you know them. The next anthology of the Greystone Collection further casts the city of Portents in the shadows, showing that no one is safe.

The war for Portents has begun. The mayor is dead, his cause of death: a Greystone. Soriya flees into the shadows of the night, accused of a heinous murder. She is alone; those who trusted her, including Greg Loren, now stand against her. But even Detective Loren doesn't see what this truly is: a distraction.  From the shadows rises a new threat, one that has lain in wait from the beginning. She ushers in the return of the Heads of Cerberus—and with it, the promise of Portents' last sunrise. Meanwhile, Loren inches closer to finding the truth about Beth's murder. But can his shattered heart face the truth of his late wife's killer—or about the secrets she harbored from him in the months before her death?  The climactic finale of the Greystone Saga's first massive storyline will leave readers breathless and stunned, desolately questioning the motives of once-trusted characters.