And like the reincarnation of their patron saint, she will bring hope to all of Santa Olivia. Aware that she could lose her freedom, and possibly her life, Loup is determined to fight to redress the wrongs her community has suffered.

A fugitive 'Wolf-Man' who had a love affair with a local woman, Loups father was one of a group of men genetically-manipulated and used by the US government as a weapon. Eventually, the orphans find an outlet for their frustrations: They form a vigilante group to support Loup Garron who, costumed as their patron saint, Santa Olivia, uses her special abilities to avenge the town. Loup Garron was born and raised in Santa Olivia, an isolated, disenfranchised town next to a US military base inside a DMZ buffer zone between Texas and Mexico. Wikipedia - Santa Olivia Offers quick summary / overview and other basic information submitted by Wikipedia contributors who considers themselves 'experts' in the topic at hand. After her mother dies, Loup goes to live among the misfit orphans at the parish church, where they seethe from the injustices visited upon the locals by the soldiers. Sites with a short overview, synopsis, book report, or summary of Santa Olivia by Jacqueline Carey. The 'Wolf-Men' were engineered to have superhuman strength, speed, sensory capability, stamina, and a total lack of fear, and Loup, named for and sharing her father's wolf-like qualities, is marked as an outsider. A fugitive 'Wolf-Man' who had a love affair with a local woman, Loup's father was one of a group of men genetically-manipulated and used by the US government as a weapon. Loup Garron was born and raised in Santa Olivia, an isolated, disenfranchised town next to a US military base inside a DMZ buffer zone between Texas and Mexico. Lushly written with rich and vivid characters, SANTA OLIVIA is Jacqueline Carey's take on comic book superheroes and the classic werewolf myth.