Valerie Smaldone has narrated 2 audiobooks on Listento.it by 2 authors. The most-rated is Running from Love.
Holding On to Hurt
Summary
IIrene Hurt's life is perfect, and she cherishes every moment with her son and her husband, until...the day she gets the call every mother dreads. Her son, Scottie is injured in a mass school shooting and is rushed to the ICU, where he's put into a medically induced coma to wait out his fate. Devastated, her husband pulls away and even tries to convince Irene to remove Scottie's life support, to save his son from a life of lesser existence. But, Irene refuses to give up hope. On her journey through grief, denial, anger, and finally, acceptance, Irene discovers more about the events of that tragic day, the boy who shot her son and then took his own life, and the husband she thought she knew and could trust. Will Scottie pull through? Or, will Irene accept that sometimes, the best thing a mother can do for her child is let go? Set in the darkest hours of winter in Seattle, Holding On to Hurt tells the gripping story of one mother's fight to keep her son alive, no matter what she has to sacrifice.
©2017 Charlotte Roth (P)2019 Charlotte Roth
Running from Love
Summary
Farrah Foley runs the way she runs her love life - too cautiously. She slows down just when it's time to fly. Getting dumped with no explanation by the love of her life, she's determined never to find herself in that position again. When Jude Farnesworth comes along, Farrah is intrigued but fears she can't compete with the kind of high-society women he meets in his town of Greenwich, Connecticut. Raised in Queens, she lives in the Bronx, where she runs with the Van Cortlandt Track Club. Down-to-earth yet vulnerable, she has no idea that Jude is attracted to the qualities in her she's trying hardest to hide. Jude knows about being between two groups, belonging to neither, having grown up at the fringes of affluence. He wants to write about the experience as soon as he finishes ghostwriting TV financial expert Dan Perlstein's latest book, How to Marry Money. Increasingly uneasy as he researches his current project, Jude begins to realize the life he wants for himself is entirely unlike the lives of the people with whom he has surrounded himself. When Jude meets Farrah, for the first time he can see himself as an insider, the only other member of Farrah's club. But when Farrah discovers what Jude is writing about, she leaves him behind in the dust. Will Jude be able to catch her at the finish line?
©2012 Rozsa Gaston (P)2014 Audible Inc.