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Come Sundown by Nora Roberts
3.0

Holy darkness!

Alice Bodine left her family's Montana ranch to try and make it big in Hollywood. After a few years of failed dreams she decides to return, but never makes it. She is kidnapped off the side of the road miles from home with her family never the wiser. She is kept as a sex slave/breeder/prisoner in a shack to a perverted man she only knows as Sir. She is kept prisoner for almost 25 years, and has many children. One boy who survives and is taken from her at age one, and many daughters who are all taken away.

Years later, Bodine Longbow is running the show for her family's resort and is beginning to explore a new relationship with Cal Skinner, one of her brother's friends who is also newly returned home from Hollywood when they find out Alice has been found, badly traumatized and needing her family.

While Alice escaped, Sir is still at large. Hoping for the family's love to help her remember, Sir may be even closer than anyone thinks.

Nora Roberts' last standalone, The Obsession, also had the enslaved, hidden woman plot line and I'm really tired of it. So, while I enjoyed some of the parts of this book I didn't as much as I normally do.