After learning that she is the daughter of accused serial killers Todd and Pamela Larsen, privileged 24-year-old Olivia Taylor ends up in the small town of Cainsville, Illinois, to prove her birthparents' innocence. But as she and Gabriel, her mother's lawyer, 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.
After learning that she is the daughter of accused serial killers Todd and Pamela Larsen, privileged 24-year-old Olivia Taylor ends up in the small town of Cainsville, Illinois, to prove her birthparents' innocence. But as she and Gabriel, her mother's lawyer, 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.
When Olivia's life exploded--after she found out she was not the adopted child of a privileged Chicago family but of a notorious pair of convicted serial killers--she found a refuge in the secluded but oddly welcoming town of Cainsville, Illinois. Working with Gabriel Walsh, a fiendishly successful criminal lawyer with links to the town, she discovered the truth about her parents' crimes in an investigation that also revealed the darker forces at work in the place that had offered her a haven. As if that wasn't enough, she also found out that she, Gabriel and her biker boyfriend Ricky were not caught in an ordinary sort of love triangle, but were hereditary actors in an ancient drama in which the elders of Cainsville and the mysterious Huntsmen who opposed them had a huge stake. Now someone is killing street kids in the city, and the police have tied Ricky to the crimes. Setting out with Gabriel's help to clear Ricky's name, Olivia once again finds her own life at risk. Soon the three are tangled in a web of betrayals that threatens their uneasy equilibrium and is pushing them toward a hard choice: either they fulfill their destinies by trusting each other and staying true to their real bonds, or they succumb to the extraordinary forces trying to win an eternal war by tearing them apart.
IN THE STUNNING FINALE OF KELLEY ARMSTRONG'S CAPTIVATING CAINSVILLE SERIES, OLIVIA TAYLOR-JONES NOT ONLY HAS TO CONFRONT THE TRUTH ABOUT HER BIRTH PARENTS' CRIMES, BUT THE TRUTH ABOUT WHO SHE REALLY LOVES. AND THERE'S ONE MORE IMPOSSIBLE CHOICE SHE FACES...
When Olivia found out she was not actually the child of a privileged Chicago family, as she was raised to believe, but the daughter of a notorious pair of convicted series killers, her life exploded. Running from the fall-out, she found a refuge in the secluded but oddly welcoming town of Cainsville, Illinois. But she couldn't resist trying to dig out the truth about her birth parents' crimes. She began working with Gabriel Walsh, a fiendishly successful criminal lawyer who also had links to the town; their investigation soon revealed Celtic mysteries at work in Cainsville, and also entangled Olivia in a tense love triangle with the calculating Gabriel and a charming biker, Ricky, the son of one of Gabriel's more questionable clients. Soon, troubling visions revealed to Olivia that the three of them were drawn to each other for deeper reasons than any of them would credit--caught in an ancient drama that pitted the elders of Cainsville against the mysterious Hunstmen with Olivia as the prize.
In this fifth and final novel, not only does Gabriel's drug addict mother--who he thought had died when he was a child--make a surprise reappearance, but Olivia's story takes a final knock-out twist. It turns out that a third supernatural force has been at work all along, a dark and malevolent entity that has had its eye on Olivia since she was a baby and wants to win at any cost.
This description comes from the publisher. *Rituals* is the fifth book of the Cainsville series, the first of which is *Omens*.
