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The Obsession – Nora Roberts
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THE OBSESSION : She Changed Her Name. She Changed Her Life. But Someone Won’t Let Her Go

Nora Roberts
WELL USED, PAPERBACK

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A Compelling Fiction With Character Driven Psychological Thriller With Elements of Suspense And Romance

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ISBN 9780349407784
Book Condition WELL USED
Format PAPERBACK
Publisher Piatkus Books
Publication Date 18 May 2017
Pages 544
Weight 0.43 kg
Dimension 20 × 13 × 3.6 cm
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The riveting novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Liar.
 
“She stood in the deep, dark woods, breath shallow and cold prickling over her skin despite the hot, heavy air. She took a step back, then two, as the urge to run fell over her.”
 
Naomi Carson started her life off as Naomi Bowes, the daughter of the local church deacon, with a loving mother and a sometimes bratty younger brother, Mason. But at the tender age of eleven she learned that you never really know the people close to you. That was when her father’s heinous crimes came to light one stormy night when she bravely helped a young woman escape from where she was being held captive on Naomi’s family’s property.
 
Naomi Bowes lost her innocence the night she followed her father into the woods. In freeing the girl trapped in the root cellar, Naomi revealed the horrible extent of her father’s crimes and made him infamous. No matter how close she gets to happiness, she can’t outrun the sins of Thomas David Bowes.


After helping the victim escape and getting the police involved, Naomi and her mother and brother try to go on with their lives, though it’s a constant struggle. As Naomi slowly sets down roots and begins to flourish, her past rears its ugly head in a series of murders that all point back to her father and someone’s ugly obsession with her.
 
Now a successful photographer living under the name Naomi Carson, she has found a place that calls to her, a rambling old house in need of repair, thousands of miles away from everything she’s ever known. Naomi wants to embrace the solitude, but the kindly residents of Sunrise Cove keep forcing her to open up—especially the determined Xander Keaton.
 
Naomi can feel her defenses failing, and knows that the connection her new life offers is something she’s always secretly craved. But the sins of her father can become an obsession, and, as she’s learned time and again, her past is never more than a nightmare away.
 
The Obsession is proof why Nora Roberts is still one of the most popular authors out there today. With a powerful plot, engaging characters, and a variety of intense emotions, this was one solid story that I couldn’t read fast enough. The intriguing story line coupled with dynamic characters and a soft but potent romance only serves to remind the reader why Roberts’s continues to be such a prolific and popular author.
 
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KIRKUS REVIEW :
 
Nearly 20 years after bringing her serial-killer father to justice, a photographer begins to settle into a new life only to discover that a murderous stalker is after her—and may have been collecting his own victims along the way.
 
Just before her 12th birthday, Naomi Bowes followed her father into the woods and made the grim discovery that he was a serial killer, which sent him to jail for life. Naomi, her mother, and her brother, Mason, moved in with her uncle Seth and his partner, Harry, ultimately settling in New York City and changing their last name for anonymity.
 
But her mother never quite recovered from her husband’s horrid influence, and the tragic aftermath of that relationship will have a long-lasting impact Naomi won’t recognize until she settles into a new home in Washington state and her past catches up with her in ominous ways.
 
Thanks to new friends, a new lover, a rescue dog, and her FBI-agent brother, she might weather this dangerous situation, but discovering someone has been shadowing her formerly nomadic life gives her a new appreciation for her own strength, resilience, and many blessings.
 
Naomi’s unique past makes her wary of strangers, so when she falls in love with a house and buys it, then is quickly enfolded into a group of new friends and, through them, meets the man of her dreams, she feels both embraced and nervous, but when her past threatens her and her new community, she knows she’s in the right place with the right people.
 
Bestseller Roberts explores the experience of a serial killer’s family and, more subtly, the true natures of trust, friendship, and loyalty.
 
A little uneven and with an abundance of detail that occasionally slows the pace, this is still an appealing story from a romantic-suspense favorite.

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