Omens (Cainsville, #1)
(fantasy > urban fantasy)
#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.
Total ratings: 3
Kelley Armstrong (born 1968) is a Canadian writer, primarily of fantasy novels since 2001.
She has published twenty-one fantasy novels, thirteen to date in her Women of the Otherworld series, two in her Cainsville series, six in her Darkest Powers series and one in the Age of Legends series. She has also published two middle-grade fantasy novels in the Blackwell Pages Trilogy, with co-author Melissa Marr. As well, she is the author of three crime novels, the Nadia Stafford trilogy. She has also written several serial novellas and short stories for the Otherworld series, some of which are available free from her website.
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