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.

When Ricky is suspected of being involved with the killing of kids living on the streets Olivia and Gabriel swing into action to investigate. But there is more to the situation than there appears to be at first, the dead and missing girls are fae and there is a rogue member of The Hunt involved. The love triangle between Olivia, Gabriel and Ricky is becoming more complicated as their past identities are coming more to the fore and the two sides are pushing Olivia to make a choice.

Our character are growing, especially Gabriel who is becoming a bit less emotionally isolated. Ricky is maturing nicely into his role as a future leader of his father’s business, and its fae counterpart and, of the three, seems to have the firmest grasp on what their friendship bonds mean and how important it is to not break them.  Olivia is torn between the two as well as coming to accept her mother’s guilt in the murders her parents are imprisoned for and the reality that in order to free her innocent father it may well mean getting Pamela out of prison as well. The sub-plot of this book moves briskly to a satisfying and not totally unexpected solution while the over-arc of the series - Olivia, Gabriel and Ricky as current versions of a fae threesome whose choices resulted in war between two fae factions - is fleshed out even more as we work our way to the conclusion in the fifth book, Rituals, which I will be reading as soon as it finishes downloading on my tablet.  This whole series is highly recommended. ~~ Stephanie L Bannon

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