Olivia, affectionately known as Libby, is Keira’s beloved older sister and Frank’s cherished wife. As Keira herself puts it, losing Libby to America had felt like saying goodbye to her best friend, which makes her eventual move to New England to live with the couple all the more meaningful. By the time Keira delivers her wedding speech in Book 10, she addresses Libby directly in front of everyone, calling her not just a sister but a best friend, and thanking her and Frank for giving her a home that brought her closer to finding her final one.
Libby is as far from her sister’s alternative aesthetic as you could get. She has naturally curly, fiery red hair that is always perfectly styled, jade-green eyes that reveal every emotion she feels, and a warmth to her tanned, lightly freckled complexion inherited from their father. Standing at the same 5 feet 3 inches as Keira, she has a slender frame with gentle curves and carries herself with the kind of effortless polish that suits her profession.
She is named after Frank’s Aunt Olivia, a woman their father was devoted to, which gives her full name a quietly sentimental weight. Professionally, she goes by Olivia and works as an interior designer for a company in Portland, a career she genuinely loves. By Book 5, however, motherhood has quietly taken over as her primary identity. When Keira mentions her to someone who refers to her as “the interior designer,” Keira corrects him without hesitation: “now the mother, after Ella was born.” Her culinary talents remain another matter entirely. Packet pizza at full oven heat is about as ambitious as Libby gets in the kitchen, something Keira cheerfully acknowledges, and Frank has learned to live with.
She met Frank at a concert where he was working security. A fight broke out, she was knocked unconscious, and he jumped the barrier to shield her from the crowd. Their love story began, as Keira tells it, with him playing knight in a black t-shirt and jeans. The tenderness between them never fades across the books. In Book 8, during a group evening, Libby looks at Frank with soft eyes and says quietly, “He is my hero.” He pulls her in, kisses her, and tells her he loves her. It is the kind of moment that needs no commentary.
Libby is warm, funny, fiercely protective of Keira, and not above using guilt or a well-timed threat to get her way. She is one of the few people Frank genuinely behaves around, since she draws a firm line at swearing in her home. She disapproves of the Afterlife club from the start, though she eventually comes around when she sees how it shapes Keira’s new life. Her overprotectiveness extends throughout the series in small, consistent ways. In Book 5 it takes Keira three full days to convince her and Frank that befriending a biker passing through town was not the beginning of a lifestyle spiral.
In Book 4, Libby gives birth to her daughter, with Keira at her side, delivering the baby when things become urgent. The little girl is named Carrie Ella, though she goes by Ella, a character whose story later unfolds in the Hellbeast King series.
In Book 8, Libby is one of Keira’s bridesmaids at her wedding, wearing a strapless deep purple gown encrusted with tiny crystals, a gift from Draven that complements her red hair perfectly. She is present for the hen party, champagne in hand, and at some point during the night, has to help convince their mother not to go searching for a bellboy’s hat. True to form, she also knows exactly when Keira will slip out to go to Draven, leaving a taxi number on the counter with a note tucked underneath that reads simply: “Good Luck x.”
So what does Libby look like? Here’s a detailed visual profile.
Libby is Keira’s older sister, and where Keira does everything she can to disappear into the background, Libby is simply, effortlessly present. She is polished without being showy, warm without being soft, and her appearance reflects exactly that.
Height and Build: The same 5 feet 3 inches as Keira, so petite, but described as slender with gentle curves. She carries herself with an ease and polish that suits someone who works in interior design, confident in her own skin in a way her sister is not.
Hair: Naturally curly, fiery red, and always perfectly styled. This is one of her most defining features and is used consistently across the books. The curls are her own, not achieved, and they are described at one point as the curls Keira’s mother also has, suggesting they run in the family. In Book 10 at Keira’s wedding, Draven gifts her a deep purple gown specifically chosen to complement her red hair, which confirms it is vivid and warm-toned rather than a muted auburn.
Eyes: Jade green, described as looking like deep lagoons or jade stones. They are her most expressive feature, giving away every emotion she feels, which in someone as reactive as Libby means they are almost constantly in motion, widening, softening, narrowing, filling with tears.
Complexion: Tanned with a lightly freckled nose, a trait she inherited from their father rather than the fair, pale skin Keira got from their mother’s side. The freckles sit across her nose specifically and add to the warmth of her overall appearance.
Style: Smart, polished, professional. She is described as the opposite of Keira’s alternative, rock-adjacent aesthetic. Nothing alternative, nothing baggy, nothing deliberately worn in. At the wedding, she wears a strapless deep purple gown with tiny crystal encrustation across the bodice, which tells you everything about her natural register: elegant, put-together, and color-confident.
Overall vibe: The kind of woman who always looks like she just came from somewhere or is about to go somewhere, even at home. Warm, expressive, and immediately approachable. The red curls and green eyes are striking enough that she reads as memorable without trying to be.