Someone raped California university professor Rashawn Ams.

Left pregnant and refusing to report the attack to the police, Rashawn finds herself confused about what she should do next, so she does the only thing she thinks she can do: she hides the rape from her friends and family, and flees town to give birth to her son and repair her life after confiding in her psychiatrist. Later, when the man she believes raped her is killed, she is relieved and feels that she can return to her life, her town, her classroom.

After her return the university, she finds herself the target of an intrusive secret admirer, bringing back frightening memories of the attack.

Three important men are bound by lust, greed, and an obsessive appetite for one woman. The problem is, one of these men is a killer.

RAW Rating:  4

Obsessed Fear

Professor Rashawn Ams was brutally raped 18 months ago.  Devastated, emotionally bereft and pregnant, she did the only thing she felt she could do—she went into seclusion.  She took with her the possible identity of her rapist and failed to report him and the crime to the proper authorities.  Now, ready to pick up the pieces of her life and begin anew, she is back with a son and working in a profession she loves.  But the man she assumed raped her is dead and, what's more, she learns he was incapable of fathering a child.  As she goes about her duties as a professor, Rashawn unfortunately becomes the object of a secret admirer's attention.  Because of this person's unknown identity, Rashawn begins to experience feelings of insecurity and fear as she imagines the rapist may still be lurking.

Allen Roman is the university's psychiatrist.  He attempts to help Rashawn through her issues with the rape and readjusting to campus life.  His interest, however, begins to border more on the side of personal rather than medical.  Blain Tollome is a campus security guard.  He is seen as a tormenter because of his physical stature and intrusive nature.  He always seems to be around Rashawn when trouble appears.  Chance Davis, a professor at the university also, has a long-standing crush on Rashawn and now that she is back, he plans to act on it.  The common thread among the three men is Rashawn.  They are all obsessed with having her in their lives, but one of them is playing with a few cards short of a full deck.

In the middle of all the attention Rashawn is receiving, crimes are being committed on the campus.  Women are being raped and they have no memory of the event, only medical evidence that it happened.  People are being brutally beaten and murdered.  The connection appears to be the popular "get ass" drug and a man referred to as "Doc".  As the investigation heats up, the private life of one of Rashawn's admirers comes under close scrutiny.

In OBSESSION 101, Michelle McGiff has written a captivating and riveting tale about obsession at its worst.  She submerses readers in a plot thick with twists and turns that are guaranteed to keep them flipping the pages.  I enjoyed the way she weaves in the subplots of campus life, drug-related activities and mental illness into a main story that inspires one to think about the situations you can find yourself in when trusting people professionally or personally.  None of it was predictable, thereby adding to my interest, which reached a high with a shocking conclusion that blew me away.  Although this is my first book by Ms. McGriff, I am looking forward to reading some of her other literary escapades. 

Reviewed by Brenda M. Lisbon
of The RAWSISTAZ™ Reviewers http://www.rawsistaz.com

**** Don't Drink the Water!!!

The author does a meticulous work in vividly illustrating humor phobias, insecurities, altered egos and mental struggles through the power of words; although at times I found it difficult to follow the author's lead in the plot, she recovered the story well.

The story - suspenseful. Even after the early revealing in the story of the rapist who attacked RaShawn Ams, you'll continue to question the answer because the author used major twists and mayhem heightening the story.

The center of the story is based on Professor RaShawn Ams, an English professor at Moorman University, in California. She returned from Georgia to work back again at the University, where she was raped. Now she too(unaware), has fallen victim to the sex drug that has hit the campus from the homeland of Jamaica.

Being a creature of habit, the stalker was able to switch her bottled waters with his bottles of drugged water, in which afterwards he would take merciless advantage of the professor. Next, he was able to infiltrate her home and do the same.

The results of RaShawn's rape at Moorman University one late night (kept secretive for a while from everyone, family members included), was born a sweet baby boy, Reggie. The rape was the reason for her immediate exodus to Georgia, where her son was born. She accounted to her family that Reggie was born due to her night of fun in the peach state of Georgia.

RaShawn attempts, with difficulty, to lead a "normal" life. Unfortunately, in her path are three men Chance Davis, Allen Roman and Blain Tollome; one of which is possessed with demons and the story unveils...... Yet, it seemed as though there were other characters possessed at times.

OUT-OF-CONTROL!!!!!

The author was creative with the involvement of college faculty & students, law enforcemment and of course family and friends.

The only problem I had was in needed closure to some characaters in the story. The character Leon, a security officer on campus - it's not quite clear how this character was introduced (other than his greed) to his partners, Doc and Red, in the drug circle on campus, in which he also was a drug dealer. Also who was the older man who Allen Roman despised so, what it is father? Who was Wanda, was she the same person as Juanita (Chance Davis' ex-wife)? What became of Juanita's current younger husband, Dennis?