Cold Omens

Something was on the bridge before it fell. It had always been there. It only had to wait.

In 1967, Margaret Calloway watched a thing with vast folded wings and eyes like pulsing embers fix its attention on her from the Silver Bridge's suspension tower - and forty-seven seconds later, the bridge went into the Ohio River with forty-six souls aboard. It wasn't there to cause the disaster. It was there because it already knew.

Decades later, in a quiet mountain town in Washington State, Dina runs a sanctuary for cats who seem to sense trouble before it arrives - a storm, a death, a stranger at the gate who shouldn't be there. When the colony's warnings turn to something closer to panic, and a figure with wings too wide and eyes too red begins appearing at the edge of the property, Dina finds herself at the center of a pattern that reaches back fifty years and asks a question no one wants answered: what happens when the omen isn't warning you about the disaster, but about what's already decided to happen?

Sebastian Sterling has been tracking this entity for longer than anyone alive. He knows what it means when it shows up. He knows what usually comes next.

Cold Omens is a standalone entry in the Celestial Requiem series - a slow-burn paranormal horror novel about premonition, inevitability, and the things that watch us before the worst happens.