One night
changes everything in The Obsession by Nora Roberts (The Liar), a
romantic suspense novel about how the
past haunts a woman trying to reinvent her
life beyond a series of horrific, notorious sex crimes committed by her father.
The book opens
with a horrifying scene: Naomi Bowes, an innocent 12-year-old from West
Virginia, awakens on a stormy summer night, unable to sleep. When she sees
shadows in the woods and spies her father, she secretly follows him to a grisly
crime scene: a girl--bound, tortured and raped--trapped in a root cellar. After
her father departs, Naomi rescues the injured girl and brings her to safety
only to discover that her overbearing father, a church deacon, is actually a
demented serial killer. Naomi becomes instrumental in her father being sent to
prison for life.
Seventeen years
later, Naomi lives in Sunrise Cove, a peaceful, tight-knit community in
Washington State, and has reinvented herself as Naomi Carson. She is a
successful fine art photographer who thinks she's finally found a place to call
home, though she is a loner who suffers trust issues and chronic nightmares.
She buys and begins a major renovation on a 10-bedroom house, makes friends,
adopts a dog and even falls in love. But when a series of brutal killings
plague the area, Naomi's past is suddenly resurrected--as are her fears.
This
spellbinding, well-constructed story plunges deep into the nature of obsessions—the
damaged soul and psyche of a haunted woman; Naomi's brother, an FBI agent desperate
to understand his imprisoned father's twisted modus operandi;
and a vicious serial killer intent to strike again. Roberts creates a strong,
determined protagonist with whom readers can identify and empathize.
The Obsession by Nora Roberts
Berkley, $28.00 Hardcover, 9780399175169, 464 pp
Publication Date: April 12, 2016
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Berkley, $28.00 Hardcover, 9780399175169, 464 pp
Publication Date: April 12, 2016
To order this book via INDIEBOUND link HERE
Note: This review is a reprint and is being posted (in a slightly different form) with the permission of Shelf Awareness. To read this review on Shelf Awareness: Reader's Edition (4/22/16), link HERE