Whitney Webster has narrated 3 audiobooks on Listento.it by 3 authors. The most-rated is The Earl's Wet Nurse.
Spirited Away
Summary
In May 1653, young Frederica (Freddy) O’Brennan and her sister Aileen trust a stranger on an empty beach in western Ireland, inadvertently placing themselves in the crosshairs of Cromwell’s notorious Reign of Terror. Freddy awakens in the crammed hold of a slave ship bound for Barbados. Ripped from their loved ones, she and Aileen endure the voyage – only to be wrenched apart when purchased at auction by sugar plantation owners from different islands. Freddy faces the brutal realities of life as a female Irish slave on a seventeenth century Barbados sugar plantation. Amidst the island's treacherous beauty, she must find a way to bear her cruel, drunken Master’s abuse. Heartsick with yearning for her family, Freddy must reach deep inside herself for the strength she needs to protect her young spirit from being broken. As she struggles to survive rape, degradation, beatings, and the harrowing spectacle of her Irish countrymen being flogged and starved to death, she is buoyed by powerful friendships with her fellow slaves – especially the Native American kitchen slave with whom she works long hours in the plantation cookhouse. The two women risk severe punishment by sneaking food and medicine to the suffering Irish and African field slaves. Eventually Freddy braves much more for the sake of love and loyal friendship. SPIRITED AWAY-A NOVEL OF THE STOLEN IRISH paints an intimate portrait of 1650s Irish slavery in the Caribbean.
©2012 Maggie Plummer (P)2014 Maggie Plummer
Silent Fear
Summary
After brain surgeon Dr. Danny Tilson performs several intracranial surgeries, patients and staff acquire a strange meningitis that sweeps nationwide at breakneck speed. The root of the outbreak is an enigma, and the CDC, a neurologist, and an infectious disease specialist are called in for their expertise. Hang on for a ride as Dr. Danny straightens out his personal life while he is confronted with an epidemic of frightening proportions and consequences. The pandemic of the millennium has no cure in sight! And while Danny's colleagues, patients, and staff are falling dead around him, perhaps the most crucial question of all is: Why has Danny been spared? Like ebola, Dr. Ebel's real and deadly organism in Silent Fear actually exists. This is a standalone audiobook as well as book two in the Doctor Danny Tilson series of novels. Book one of the series is Operation Neurosurgeon. Book three of the series is Collateral Circulation: a Medical Mystery. Author's website: barbaraebel.weebly.com
©2014 Barbara Ebel, M.D. (P)2015 Barbara Ebel, M.D.
The Earl's Wet Nurse
Summary
The earl of Sefton is delighted when he sees the midwife approaching bearing a tiny bundle. Within moments of being introduced to his new son, his world is shattered by the news that his wife did not survive the birth. Thorne, a man used to commanding regiments, puts his emotions aside to deal with providing for his newborn son. His first concern - one made known to the entire household by his heir's fully functioning lungs - is to secure a wet nurse. Catherine had met and married her seafaring officer within days of meeting him. She had been selling jams and jellies for her church on market day when Thomas swept her off her feet. She fell wildly in love, and when he proposed she was delighted to finally be free of her aunt. When Thomas shipped out two weeks after marrying her, he promised to return. Four months later it was confirmed that all hands were lost at sea. It was at about that time she could not deny her swelling belly. Told by the midwife attending her that her child was stillborn, Catherine is beside herself with grief. Now, all alone, with nowhere to turn, she has no choice but to accept the position of wet nurse when it is offered. The earl's entire household is charmed by Catherine and well pleased that she is able to bring peace and quiet as well as joy back to the manor. As Catherine and Thorne grieve for their spouses and tend to the young heir's needs, the three of them begin to bond. They take walks, share meals, and read books together. They laugh again, which neither thought they would ever do...and they become friends. Then they kiss, and one night, when he discovers her self-pleasuring, they become much more. It is a magical time on the coast of England. Southport is a bustling harbor on the cusp of wondrous things, and Sefton Manor and its inhabitants are about to embrace it all.
©2014 Jacqueline DeGroot (P)2015 Jacqueline DeGroot