title: Olivia
author: West, Steve
description: A bold and breathtakingly original novel, Olivia is a mystery, a love story, a magnificent tale of healing and reawakening, featuring one of the most intriguing lead characters in contemporary fiction. Author Steve West's unforgettable story of a grown woman trapped in the body of a young girl and enveloped in a dark cloud of conspiracy, misunderstanding, and murder, begins on a rooftop in downtown Pittsburgh, where an alcoholic ex-philosophy teacher stumbles upon the corpse of a wealthy financier and what at first appears to be an unconscious child. When Mitchell Flynn brings Olivia into his broken life everything changes for both of them, as an extraordinary love blossoms that holds the promise of healing and peril in equal measure.