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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 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.

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.

©2016 Nora Roberts (P)2016 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved. Contemporary Contemporary Romance Fiction Romance Romantic Suspense Women's Fiction Suspense Exciting Crime Murder Mystery

Critic reviews

"[Narrator Shannon] McManus gives a moving performance of Naomi's struggles to overcome her horrific past in a psychological thriller listeners won't want to miss." (AudioFile)
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I love it and the narration was perfect, I love the voice it sounds like the character Naomi😍

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Nora Roberts’ tomes are undeniably formulaic. When they’re on point, they keep up an absorbing amount of jeopardy related to a nefarious threat to a likeable protagonist who is also endeavouring to build a new life and establish love despite tumult from the past bleeding into the preset. One is, also happily guaranteed a satisfying ending.

The Obsession delivers where some more recent listens have been somewhat flaccid and distinctly lacking in tension.

My personal tastes is for less graphic and really heinous suffering meted out to victims. The crimes described in The Obsession are undeniably grim but the sadistic cruelty isn’t as relentless as in, for example, Come Sundown. It’s nasty stuff but all in all this is a tauter, tighter listen than some, and the better for it.

Recommended as a good Roberts, not as brilliant, as for example, The Witness, but absolutely worth a listen.

Nora Roberts on form

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could be a bit girlie for some men..but a beautifully written story with underlying menace

gentle thriler

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Nora Roberts' books are great for audio as they are really character studies with a plot included almost as an added bonus. There can be some level of suspense, as with this novel but it is really about people and their daily lives.

Great for audio

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Excellent Story and recording. Has everything you expect from Nora Roberts, great story that keeps you guessing who is it until the end. Love Tag adds a lot of humour. The insights into photography adds interest as well.

Nora Roberts Classic

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