Kate O'Malley

Kate O'Malley, a character in the Veil of Secrets book, is the former best friend of your character and Flynn's sister. She is the fiancee of Tanner Sterling, though the relationship is tumultuous due to both Tanner's family and her brother not approving of it. Her disappearance at the end of the first chapter spurs the book's events into motion. She makes her first appearance in Chapter 1.

Appearance
Kate has long red hair, blue eyes, and fair skin. She is described as wearing a white and green floral dress and a pink leather jacket.

Personality
Kate is enthusiastic, upbeat and friendly, and is overjoyed when she is reunited with Your Character. She is shown to be rather chipper.

Biography
Kate and Your Character reunite in the first chapter, a day before the wedding between Kate and her fiancee Tanner. On this day, the player spends some time with Kate on her last night as a bachelorette - this is in the mansion itself, or in an upscale restaraunt should the player spend the diamonds. In either case, Kate gets increasingly intoxicated; Tanner suddenly storms in, angry at Kate for putting herself at risk of hangover on the day of her wedding, and drags her away by the arm. As she is dragged away, she subtly hands Your Character a note only reading "Ulysses", baffling Your Character.

The next morning, as Kate is supposed to exit the dressing room and walk down the aisle, she has gone missing. In the second chapter, her wedding veil is found left behind in the woods surrounding the mansion, near some tire tracks; this causes Your Character to believe she was kidnapped.

In the fourth chapter, Flynn and Your Character head to Kate's apartment in town to investigate for clues. During this time, there is a flashback to how Kate and Your Character first met - her and you were roommates seven years ago at Hartfeld University. During the investigation, if you spend diamonds, Flynn and Your Character discover that someone was spying on her, as a teddy bear with a spy camera secretly installed is in her bedroom. They also discover a diary Kate kept - an entry dated a few days ago reveals that she was suspecting Tanner of infidelity where she suspects Tanner was cheating on her. She planned to go to his yacht to investigate. Interestingly, Tanner's yacht was named "Ulysses" - this is not only what Kate wrote in her note, but it is also the name of a mythological creature who cheated on his wife. Her suspicions are proven correct in the fifth chapter, as it is revealed here that Tanner was having an affair with Scarlett Emerson, Kate's own maid of honor. In this chapter, Chief Tommy Walsh puts out an APB on Kate, believing her to be guilty of Tanner's murder suspecting that she was enraged at Tanner's infidelity. This infuriates Your Character and Flynn as they still believe she is a victim.

In the seventh chapter, Kate is found alive, albeit drugged and badly disoriented, in the basement of a cabin in Crescent Lake in the woods.

Flynn O'Malley
Flynn is her brother. While talking to Kate in the first chapter, Kate will comment that they do occasionally get beers, but they weren't very close; this is partially due to Flynn having been absent for six years due to his imprisonment. In fact, Jesse noted that Kate never mentioned Flynn (during their time as roommates) when they first met Flynn, revealing that Kate wasn't exactly proud of him. Flynn also holds discontentment regarding Kate's engagement to Tanner because Tanner is the brother of the man who ruined Flynn's life and got him imprisoned.

Despite these strains, Flynn and Kate still have a very strong relationship; Flynn read to her when she was a child (as revealed in the fourth chapter), and Flynn was the only immediate family member of Kate's to attend the wedding, and he was extremely concerned when she disappeared and became Jesse's partner during their private investigation into her disappearance. Flynn gets visibly angry when he discovers things during the investigation that either stonewall him or suggest that harm was done to Kate; he was enraged to discover Kate suspecting Tanner of cheating on him (announcing intent to harm Tanner before discovering he had died), and was willing to physically attack and intimidate a man who demanded $1,000 for information on Kate's wherabouts.

Father & Mother
The only mention of Kate's parents is if you ask her about them during a scene in chapter 1 (ask about her family instead of asking about her friends). Kate will respond saying her mom's out of town, and that she doesn't talk to her dad; her mother not showing to the wedding and her not talking to her dad heavily implies that her relationship with her parents is strained, but the reasons why are as yet unclear.

Tanner Sterling
Tanner is her fiancé. His feelings about her disappearance are split, as he shows both concern and anger. She suspected Tanner was cheating on her.

Your Character
Your Character is her best friend. They were close back in college but lost touch upon graduation. They were also roommates at Hartfeld seven years ago. After she disappears, Your Character spends days searching for her when it becomes clear that Chief Walsh is corrupt and has no interest in solving the case.

Grant Emerson
Kate was friends with Grant, who was friends with Tanner.

Scarlett Emerson
Kate's maid of honor was Scarlett. However, as it turns out, Tanner was cheating on Kate with her.

Trivia

 * Kate is shown on the cover of Veil of Secrets.
 * In Chapter 6, it is revealed that she worked summers at a dive bar called Shipwreck Sally's.