In His Eyes

By: Stephenia H McGee

Narrated by: Bryn Austin

She pretends to be a Yankee officer's widow in order to survive. But what will she do when he returns home to a wife he didn't marry?

Her heart sought shelter. Her soul found home.

Ella Whitaker rescues a newborn from the dying arms of a woman of ill repute and at long last she has someone to love. In need of a wet nurse, she arrives at Belmont Plantation just as Federal soldiers demand to speak to the owner. Thinking quickly, Ella masquerades as a Yankee officer's widow in order to have a roof over her head and a home for the child. Now she must work even harder to hide her Scottish immigrant roots and pretend to be a refined Southern lady or risk losing her new son.

Major Westley Remington has dedicated his life to serving his country. The Civil War has divided his family, torn his thoughts of glory, and left him with a wound that may never heal. Westley returns home on medical furlough to settle his father's estate at Belmont Plantation, only to find his home is being run by a fiery and independent woman - one many believe to be his wife. Now he is faced with a conflict he's never been trained to fight, and one she has yet to conquer.

©2018 Stephenia H. McGee (P)2020 Stephenia H. McGee

Captivating story!

I couldn’t stop listening! I stayed up half of the night. Beautiful characters and storyline.

Wonderfully written

It has wonderful themes throughout. The way time with the Lord is detailed is beautiful.

What a narrator!

Absolutely one of the best narrators I’ve ever heard! Being able to express so many different accents and so well, she created characters that I could visualize and almost believe were individual people telling the story. I loved it!

Exceptional Narration!!

This was my first book of Miss McGee's. I am originally from Louisiana and visited Mississippi regularly including some of the historical plantations. I've always been intrigued with the civil war era and felt like this book exceeded my expectations. It kept me engaged through out the entire work not just the audio but the written. Great job on this story. I really felt like I was going back in time and could really visualize everything. I have to say that this had exceptional narration! I'm hearing impaired and audiobooks can be challenging because phonetics often blur and I'm not able to catch what was being said and unfortunately I lose bits and pieces of the story and in some cases just have to put it down. Not the case with this narrator! Never have I ever had a narrator that was so easy to understand and also able to use such different dialects to differentiate the characters. It was so much so that I really had to think if I was listening to someone else speaking. She was phenomenal! not only will I read more of Ms.McGee's novels but will most certainly listen to those narrated by Ms. Austin.

Great story set in the Post Vivil War South

The storyline is well developed as are the characters. This is a story of turning ashes into gold. The plot takes some remarkable twists and turns which kept me captured. The narration is very well done.