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In The Obsession by Nora Roberts , Naomi Bowes the daughter of a local church deacon with a loving and submissive mother and a younger brother, Mason experiences it all.  Anticipating her twelvth year birthday coming up in matter of days, she is drawn out of sleep and into the dark woods where she discovers her father's darkest secret. An abandoned house with a naked girl brutally assaulted tied up inside. Shocked to the bones but still brave enough, Naomi rescues Ashley McLean and tries not to think of the photos of other women around the room in similar situations or even worse, the set of knives and ropes or the empty bottle of liquor that is totally forbidden in their house.  She testified against her own father. The one person she looked up to as guiltless, judging from all the moral rules he set out in the family for her and her brother not excluding thier mum. Not to talk of the number of prayers and religious standards they were raised to live up to. This, ...