Glory over Everything: Beyond The Kitchen House Audiobook
Glory over Everything: Beyond The Kitchen House Audiobook
- Heather Alicia Simms, Madeleine Maby, Santino Fontana, Kyle Beltran
- Simon & Schuster Audio
- 2016-04-05
- 12 h 5 min
Summary:
The latest New York Instances bestseller from the author from the beloved book club favorite The Kitchen House is a heart racing story about a man’s treacherous journey through the twists and turns from the Underground Railroad on the mission to save lots of the boy he swore to safeguard. Glory Over Everything can be “gripping…breathless before end” (Kirkus Testimonials).
The entire year is 1830 and Jamie Pyke, a celebrated silversmith and notorious ladies’ man, is keeping a dangerous secret. Passing like a wealthy white approximately Glory over Everything: Beyond YOUR KITCHEN House aristocrat in Philadelphian society, Jamie is now living a existence he could never have dreamed years just before when he was a runaway slave, kid of the southern dark slave and her grasp. But Jamie’s cautiously constructed world is normally threatened when he discovers that his married socialite fan, Caroline, is pregnant and his beloved servant Pan, to whose dad Jamie owes his own freedom, has been captured and sold into slavery in the South.
Fleeing the results of his deceptions, Jamie embarks on a journey to a North Carolina plantation to save lots of Pan from the life he himself barely escaped like a boy. With the help of a fearless slave, Sukey, that has used the terrified young guy under her wing, Jamie navigates their way, racing against period and their ruthless pursuers through the Virginia backwoods, the Underground Railroad, and the treacherous Great Dismal Swamp.
“Kathleen Grissom is a first-rate storyteller…she observes with an unwavering but kind eyesight, and she bestows upon the reader, amid awful secrets and sin, something special of mercy: the belief that hope can triumph over hell” (Richmond Occasions Dispatch). Glory Over Everything is an emotionally rewarding and epic book “filled with romance, villains, assault, courage, compassion…and suspense.” (Florida Courier).