Origin is the fourth novel of the Lux Series, written by Jennifer L. Armentrout.
Synopsis[]
Daemon will do anything to get Katy back.
After the successful but disastrous raid on Mount Weather, he’s facing the impossible. Katy is gone. Taken. Everything becomes about finding her. Taking out anyone who stands in his way? Done. Burning down the whole world to save her? Gladly. Exposing his alien race to the world?
All Katy can do is survive.
Surrounded by enemies, the only way she can come out of this is to adapt. After all, there are sides of Daedalus that don’t seem entirely crazy, but the group’s goals are frightening and the truths they speak even more disturbing. Who are the real bad guys? Daedalus? Mankind? Or the Luxen?
Together, they can face anything. "Their love can conquer anything." But the most dangerous foe has been there all along, and when the truths are exposed and the lies come crumbling down, which side will Daemon and Katy be on?
Plot[]
The book takes after the events at the end of Opal, with Katy in a facility and Daemon in a Luxen safehouse, having been put there by Dawson and Matthew to protect him.
Katy is forced into stress tests (fighting other hybrids) and is tortured. Daemon goes to Luc and eventually goes to Mount Weather to hand himself in. He tells Nancy that he will do anything they want if he can see Katy 'now'. However, Katy is in Area 51, and at this time, is suffering from the guilt of killing Blake During one of these "stress tests". Blake had goaded her, and her anger at what he has done, his lies, got the best of her, and she uses the Source to hurl him into the concrete wall. He dies on impact.
When Daemon arrives at Area 51, Nancy shows him recorded footage of what has happened to Katy over the past few months. As expected, Daemon is absolutely furious at them and what they put her through. He enters the room that Katy is in, who’s sleeping, and he heals her bruises. When she wakes up, she seems different to him, but she becomes more like herself after talking to him. Then her guard, Archer, Nancy, and a doctor enter the room. They are taken to the medical room, where the doctors want to cut Katy so Daemon can heal her. After much resistance from Daemon, Katy cuts herself, and Daemon heals her... They return to their rooms, which are next to each other. They can't enter each other’s rooms, but they share a bathroom. It is revealed that there was a child who escaped, and he was an origin - a child of a hybrid and a Luxen. The two figure out that’s why they share a bathroom; the scientists wanted Katy and Daemon to make origin children. They resist...
Several weeks later, they torture Katy to the point of destroying her visible backbone, etc... Daemon was horrified and exhausted once he healed her, as she teetered on the brink of death. His words to her were 'it's okay kitten, I'll fix this, hold on baby.' He carries her to her room and she wakes up...
Afterward, they make Daemon heal a volunteer/solider who plunges a knife into his stomach while forcing Katy to watch. They then inject the healed soldier with something, and it was not successful. He then has to mutate some sick humans and most of them die... then it turns out Archer is an origin who works for Luc he helps them escape.
They go to a secluded motel, Katy breaks down and Daemon comforts her, in the morning she's fine again and Luc shows up he takes them to the home of a Luxen named Lila Marie, who is an old friend of Matthew's, in Las Vegas. Daemon has a 'crazy thought' when he holds Katys left hand, mainly because they're heading to Vegas, Dee and Dawson are there and they have a big reunion, they walk into a room, and Ash, Matthew, and Andrew are in the room, Katy stands back while they all embrace Daemon. Daemon and Katy learn that Bethany has been very unexplainably sick lately.
Katy and Daemon are given new identities with forged IDs Luc made for them. Dee picked the names from one of Katys books (Sweet Evil by Wendy Higgins). Dee and Katy have a heart to heart at dinner, and Daemon gets over protective towards Dee when she starts talking to Archer, as Katy teases him. After dinner, Katy and Daemon spend time together alone, they have a cute moment after loads of I love you's they go to their room and they have sex in the morning they get playful with each other, then Daemon asks Katy to marry him, and without anyone knowing apart from Archer because he read their minds, they got married in a white chapel in Vegas, then head to their room and have sex again...
Later while making dinner Katy talks to Dee about Archer and other things. She learns Dee is attracted to Archer. Then as they are relaxing, Archer reads Lila's mind, and Luc kills her, Archer walks in with Matthew who caught Matthew calling Daedalus and reveals it to the whole room, shock hits the room like a tidal wave and Matthew admits he called them to turn them in, he reveals that if they have Daemon and Katy everyone else will go free, it's also revealed that Matthew had turned in Beth and Dawson, Dawson kills Matthew, and chaos hits.
They had to get out of there. Daedalus were on their way. They head to a place near Arizona. On their way out, the DOD block the roads. Daemon suggests exposing themselves to create a diversion so that they can get out. They agree and head out to pull stunts to expose their Luxen powers. Lots of stuff happens to do with the Luxen and Daedalus. The Arum show up and some main characters die. Katy gets in trouble with the Arum. She gets away, but the damage is terrible. Lots of humans die. They get into one of Luc's cars and start to getaway. They get away and Katy and Daemon have a cute moment.
Daemon starts blaming himself and thinks Katy should hate him. Daemon goes to town, and sees that Katy's face is plastered all over national news and newspapers, Dawson tells Daemon that Beth is pregnant, but Dawson doesn't realize it will be an Origin, and Beth and Dawson don't understand how dangerous they are. It ends with Daemon Dawson and Dee go weird as something big is happening outside then Beth and Katy start feeling weird also, lights appear in the sky, and land on the ground, they're trapped with thousands of Luxen surrounding them. The blacks step towards the Luxen, not responding to Katy or the others. They are in some kind of trance, The book ends there.
Chapters[]
There are 31 chapters. The story is told from both Katy's and Daemon's point of view.
Characters[]
- Katy Swartz — A girl who moves from Florida to West Virginia.
- Daemon Black — Katy's neighbor.
- Dawson Black — Daemon's brother.
- Dee Black — Daemon's sister.
- Kellie Swartz — Katy's mother.
- Ash Thompson — a friend of the Black family.
- Adam Thompson — a friend of the Black family.
- Andrew Thompson — a friend of the Black family.
- Matthew Garrison — Katy's biology teacher.
- Archer — A guard working in area 51.
- Luc — An Origin.
- Paris — A Luxen who works for Luc.
- Nancy Husher — She works within Daedalus.
- Bethany Williams — Dawson's girlfriend.
Special content[]
- The Origin Collector's Edition: Consequences includes both Opal and Origin novels, plus a bonus chapter.
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