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.