Barbara Henslee has narrated 4 audiobooks on Listento.it by 3 authors. The most-rated is Shona: Every Small Town Has Its Secrets....
Meet Me at 10
Summary
Would you have the courage to risk your life for what is right? Shona, Cuban, Elbie, and Chloe. Four lives inextricably linked. Will tragic events part them forever? It’s 1958 and Shona Jackson is on the run again, forced to flee Mississippi and the town she’d called home. Arriving in Alabama, with hopes of saving up enough money to continue her journey to safety, she convinces Jeffrey Ellis, the wealthy co-owner of a machinery plant, to give her a job. There she strikes up a bond with Cuban. Cuban is on a similar path to Shona. Relentlessly abused because of the color of his skin, his sole ambition is to earn enough to escape to New York, but Ellis’s brutal business partner, Larry Bruce, and his racist workforce are hell-bent on making Cuban’s life unbearable. As events unfold, Shona also finds herself in Larry Bruce’s murderous sights. Their only hope is Elbie, the elderly tool room supervisor, who has been covertly keeping a diary to one day expose all the horrific acts carried out over the last five years by Bruce and his associates. But when Chloe Bruce, Larry’s beautiful daughter, returns from college and is introduced to the workforce, there are devastating consequences for all those involved. Will Elbie’s diary end up in the wrong hands? Will Cuban achieve his dream of making it to New York? And will Shona’s past finally catch up with her? Meet Me at 10 is the second novel in an epic historical fiction trilogy. If you like gripping pause-resisting, heroines with a heart, and captivating tales of love crossing boundaries, you’ll love Vicky Jones and Claire Hackney’s compelling and heart-breaking story of secrets too dangerous to confess in a time of cruel, unforgiving and relentless intolerance to difference. For fans of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café, The Color Purple and The Help - listen to Meet Me at 10 today. The complete trilogy Book 1: Shona Book 2: Meet Me At 10 Book 3: The Beach House
©2017 Vicky Jones (P)2020 Vicky Jones
Simon
Summary
A pure love so few people share. A future so promising. A carefree life with the man she thought she'd be with forever. Lydia Speers knows heartache. Lydia Speers knows loss. She knows the ache of unrequited love. Simon is gone, and has been for nearly 20 years. However, she cannot seem to get him off her mind. Everywhere she goes, something reminds her of him. The radio always seems to play their favorite songs. Though he is half a world away, she catches glimpses of him in the distance. He is sending her messages. Leading her by only thought to strange, unfamiliar places. Calling out to her, but she can never find him. Simon is out there somewhere, and is calling her back in dreams that seem a little too real. Photos that were taken without him present suddenly show him in the background, reaching out for her. The voices on the radio are going from mere questions to outright demands. This is more than a life she cannot let go. There is a truth to this. There is always an explanation. To everything. But maybe, some truths are in the eye of the beholder. And some explanations are not of this world.
©2020 Billie Dean Shoemate III (P)2020 Billie Dean Shoemate III
The Beach House
Summary
How far would you go to protect your family? New town. New life. Old enemies. California, 1958. Shona and Chloe arrive at their beautiful new beach house with every intention of living a peaceful existence after a harrowing and heartbreaking few months in Alabama. Now, with a garage to call her own and her dream home beside the Pacific Ocean, Shona is finally secure in her environment and feeling content for the first time in her turbulent life. But when Chloe returns from the doctor’s office with news that will forever change the course of their carefully made plans, Shona is left reeling. Contemplating this new, unexpected turn of events, both Shona and Chloe are left to question how they will cope. Especially when ghosts from their pasts arrive in town. With the past and present colliding and threatening their future together, can Shona protect her new life and the lives of those closest to her? The Beach House is the epic, beautifully written final part of an all-consuming historical fiction trilogy. If you like gripping finales, truly unforgettable characters, and tales of love overcoming all the odds, then you’ll be captivated by Vicky Jones and Claire Hackney’s compelling and life-affirming story of unbreakable bonds in the face of adversity. For fans of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café, The Color Purple, and The Help - listen to The Beach House now and complete your journey.
©2019 Vicky Jones (P)2021 Vicky Jones
Shona: Every Small Town Has Its Secrets...
Summary
Shona Jackson is a stranger in town. Would YOU let her stay in your home? Everyone has a secret. Hers could get her killed... Mississippi, 1956. Shona Jackson knows two things - how to repair car engines and that her dark childhood secret must stay buried. On the run from Louisiana, she finds shelter from an unjust world in the home of a kindly old lady and a job as a mechanic. But a woman working a man’s job can’t avoid notice in a small town. And attention is dangerous, especially when it comes from one woman in particular.... Free-spirited Lucy is new in town too. At 21 years old she is only now starting college. But her heart is just not in it, and when she meets Shona, something inside her begins to stir. The only thing standing in her way is Frank. Frank’s life is a mess. Three years after the Korean War, his father still writes but hasn’t come home. His bar business is in danger, and he’s desperate for cash. And everyone he knows is stockpiling the sins of his past against him. When Frank brings a raucous fair to town to stay afloat, Shona fears the added attention will shine a light on her past. If the truth comes out about her, she’ll lose everything - maybe even her life. Can Shona outrun the perils that threaten her, and finally settle down? Or will her new, unexpected friendship with Lucy attract a different kind of danger? Captivating from the first minute, Shona is the first unforgettable novel in a mesmerizing, heart-wrenching historical fiction trilogy. If you like small-town secrets, courageous heroines with turbulent pasts, and remarkable women overcoming impossible odds, then you’ll be enthralled by Vicky Jones and Claire Hackney’s beautifully written and tear-jerking tale of desperate lives. For fans of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café, The Color Purple and The Help - listen to Shona now. The Complete Trilogy: Book 1: Shona Book 2: Meet Me at 10 Book 3: The Beach House
©2019 Vicky Jones (P)2020 Vicky Jones