Thirty people have been killed within three weeks. Their only connection, apart from their unknown cause of death, is the grisly condition of their bodies-hollowed-out chasms where their eyes used to be.Death has come to the city of Portents. 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 that controls Death himself-from continuing to kill the people of Portents at random.Soriya Greystone, aware of the pain and destruction she has brought to the lives of those around her, 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.