At first as we learn about the events that lead Elizabeth Fitch into a witness protection system at age 16, and then it fast forwards twelve years later. I never thought romance suspense was Ms Roberts best genre, but she nails it in The Witness. Everything tied together, just like a great story should! But in The Witness the story was tight, the characters interesting, the romance swoon worthy, and the suspense totally believable.
#The witness book full
I found several of her latest stories full of filler and irrelevant content, and the core stories suffered as a result.
Nora Roberts is BACK!! OK, I know many of you didn’t realize she left, but over the last few years her newer books have not cut it for me. With a quirky, unforgettable heroine and a pulse-pounding plotline, Nora Roberts presents a riveting new read that cements her place as today's most reliably entertaining thriller - and will leave people hungering for more. He suspects that Abigail needs protection from something - and that her elaborate defenses hide a story that must be revealed. Her logical mind, her secretive nature, and her unromantic viewpoints leave him fascinated but frustrated. But Abigail's reserve only intrigues police chief Brooks Gleason. She keeps to herself, saying little, revealing nothing. A freelance programmer, she designs sophisticated security systems - and supplements her own security with a fierce dog and an assortment of firearms. Twelve years later, the woman known as Abigail Lowery lives on the outskirts of a small town in the Ozarks. The events that followed changed her life forever. Knowing what I know now, I look back on many of those teachings, and I realize the tremendous amount of mind control that goes into place to keep this kind of a controlled environment maintained.Daughter of a controlling mother, Elizabeth finally let loose one night, drinking at a nightclub and allowing a strange man's seductive Russian accent lure her to a house on Lake Shore Drive. And I grew up with that kind of terror, and I did not tell anyone until I was an adult woman.Īs a child growing up, as a woman, I was taught that the very highest thing I could ever hope to attain was to become a mother in Zion, to be perfectly obedient to the prophet, and one day have the opportunity to be placed by a good priesthood man, to be perfectly obedient to him. In my personal experience, I had an older half-brother who sexually abused me and some of my sisters, and even though his mother found out, I was threatened as a 5-year-old little girl. And there were also sexual violations going on. My father's first wife did not grow up around polygamy, and the story goes that she at first welcomed my mother into the family but quickly turned to extreme jealousy, and there was a tremendous amount of physical abuse.
Musser told her story to NPR's Jacki Lyden. Musser tells the harrowing story of her childhood, her marriage, and her eventual escape in her book, The Witness Wore Red: The 19th Wife Who Brought Polygamous Cult Leaders to Justice. Following his death, Musser made the terrifying decision to escape from the church into an outside world she had been taught to fear.
When she was just 19 years old, she was forced to marry the 85-year-old Rulon. Musser grew up in the FLDS church, under the control of Warren Jeffs and his father, Rulon.
#The witness book trial
The star witness in Jeffs' trial was a young woman named Rebecca Musser.
#The witness book plus
The church's leader, Warren Jeffs, was sentenced to life plus 20 years behind bars for sexually assaulting children. Police raided an FLDS compound in Texas where they found hundreds of women and girls. In 2007, a breakaway extremist offshoot of the Mormon Church called the Fundamentalist Church of the Latter Day Saints made national news.
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