Obsession

by Mary Kay McComas

Courage, dreamy and a passionate will to survive had gotten singer Esther Brite out of the small town where everyone hated her and her mother--and she'd never looked back. But when a tragic accident... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0553219391
• ISBN13: 9780553219395
• Release Date: September 1988
• Publisher: Loveswept
• Length: 180 Pages

Customer Reviews

A book for those of you that love a good love story.

Obsession starts out with a peek into a young girl's diary. Enter---Esther Brite, an illigitimate child who grew up in a small Virginia town, and returns there after the death of her husband and child. Suffering from pnemonia, her path crosses with the local doctor, Dr. Dan Jacobey, who, unbeknown to Esther, has fallen in love with her after discovering her childhood diary. Both are fighting personal demons, as they slowly become friends, then lovers. Mary Kay keeps us aching for the two to "finally get together". She teases us with foreplay, then slowly increases the passion between them until the moment of consummation. The story unfolds with unusual sadness, as Mary Kay's books are usually filled with humurous moments. She does lighten the mood with the characters of Addy Markham, the doctor's housekeeper, who was once the Madam of the town, and Uncle Fesstus. With poetic justice, Mary Kay ends the books with a peek into "another" 16 year old's diary. This books is for those readers who know what it's like to be different in a crowd, and who overcame the hurts, caused by this difference, and became a better person because of it.