Origin in Death (2005) is a novel by American writer J. D. Robb,[1][2] a pseudonym for Nora Roberts.

When Lt. Eve Dallas and Detective Delia Peabody are called to the murder scene of Dr. Wilfred B. Icove Sr., things already don't make sense.

When Dr. Icove Jr. is killed in the same way, Eve begins looking for another mystery woman, while her husband Roarke begins investigating an organization run by the Icoves and their partner, Dr. Jonah Wilson.

Soon, they uncover a secret world inside a private school of young girls and women, created by the Icoves and Wilson.

A world of children by design, where people aren't born, but cloned.