Olivia Taylor-Jones is a 24 year old woman with a dream
life. She is beautiful and her parents are wealthy. In
addition, she is engaged to one of the most eligible
bachelors in Chicago. She fills her time with volunteering
and other philanthropic activities. Her life is pretty much
perfect until the night that shatters everything.
Olivia discovers that her entire life has been somewhat of a
lie. Her parents adopted her when she was very young and
they never told her. They had a good reason for that,
though. Her biological parents are convicted serial killers
Todd and Pamela Larsen. Her identity as Eden Larsen had been
kept a secret for more than 20 years, yet someone has not
only found out who she is, but they have made it very public
knowledge.
Fleeing a non-supportive adoptive mother and fiance, she
ends up in a strange little town called Cainsville. Olivia
is welcomed there and is soon waitressing in the diner and
working with Gabriel Walsh, her mother's former attorney. It
seems that there just might be some evidence that could
clear Todd and Pamela of at least 2 of the murders for which
they've been accused.
While Olivia is getting her bearings back, she discovers
something a bit odd about herself in the process. It seems
that she can recognize and read omens. Gabriel's aunt Rose
is the town psychic and knows things about Olivia that she
apparently needs to figure out on her own.
Olivia's journey to discover her real self is one of the
most involving, fascinating, scary romps you're likely to
ever experience on the printed page. There are simply no
words to describe OMENS because it has everything that a
reader could want and then some. Just when you think you've
got it all figured out, a twist that you could never have
seen coming flies at you.
Kelley Armstrong is well-known for some other wildly popular
books and, happily, OMENS is the first in her new
Cainsville
series. Anyone that picks up OMENS is a lucky reader,
indeed, because they're about to embark on the roller
coaster of a lifetime. There are just too many amazing
things about this book to sum it up in a few words.
Be warned that, as this is the beginning of a series, you
won't have all of your questions answered by the final
page.
However, it is still a very satisfying ending to the first
book. Something that you can trust, though, is that OMENS
will deliver far and above any expectations you may have
regarding the story.
#1 New York Times bestselling author Kelley
Armstrong begins her new series with Omens,
featuring a compelling new heroine thrust into a decades-old
murder case and the dark mysteries surrounding her strange
new home.
Twenty-four-year-old Olivia Taylor
Jones has the perfect life. The only daughter of a wealthy,
prominent Chicago family, she has an Ivy League education,
pursues volunteerism and philanthropy, and is engaged to a
handsome young tech firm CEO with political ambitions.
But Olivia’s world is shattered when she learns that
she’s adopted. Her real parents? Todd and Pamela Larsen,
notorious serial killers serving a life sentence. When the
news brings a maelstrom of unwanted publicity to her adopted
family and fiancé, Olivia decides to find out the truth
about the Larsens.
Olivia ends up in the small
town of Cainsville, Illinois, an old and cloistered
community that takes a particular interest in both Olivia
and her efforts to uncover her birth parents’ past.
Aided by her mother’s former lawyer, Gabriel Walsh,
Olivia focuses on the Larsens’ last crime, the one her birth
mother swears will prove their innocence. But as she and
Gabriel start investigating the case, Olivia finds herself
drawing on abilities that have remained hidden since her
childhood, gifts that make her both a valuable addition to
Cainsville and deeply vulnerable to unknown enemies. Because
there are darker secrets behind her new home and powers
lurking in the shadows that have their own plans for her.
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