The Obsession by Nora Roberts

Synopsis :

“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.


This is what I say :

I can say this is one of the first titles that I read this year.  I actually started with another title but I kinda got stuck with that title and this seems to be easier to finish reading.

The Obsession, another romance thriller by Nora Roberts.  If you like romance and you like thriller, then you are already a fan of Nora Roberts and I don't have to spend time to convince you.

The book started off excitingly enough with twelve year old Naomi discovering the girl that her father held captive inside an abandon cellar and that's when she discovered that she's the daughter of a serial killer.

The writing is a bit one dimensional.  The author did not seems to care enough to create a more suspenseful atmosphere and seems to be keen to just keep things moving along.  Even then, it's a rather suspenseful read.  At one point, I did wonder where she is going with the story-line but still the book did capture my attention for the weekend I took to finish it.

I can imagine a Hallmark made for television movie adaption.  Is there one already?