A Virtuous Woman by Kaye Gibbons; Unabridged MP3 Audio Book; Narrator Tom Stechschulte and Ruth Ann Phimister

When Blinking Jack Stokes met Ruby Pitt Woodrow, she was twenty and he was forty. She was the carefully raised daughter of Carolina gentry and he was a skinny tenant farmer who had never owned anything in his life. She was newly widowed after a disastrous marriage to a brutal drifter. He had never asked a woman to do more than help him hitch a mule. They didn't fall in love so much as they simply found each other and held on for dear life.

In A Virtuous Woman, Kaye Gibbons transcends her early promise, creating a multilayered and indelibly convincing portrait of two seemingly ill-matched people who somehow miraculously make a marriage.

Reynolds Price Kaye Gibbons shows us the secret core of love that easily outlasts death. It's invisible mastery -- but mastery all the same.

Kaye Gibbons is the author of Charms for the Easy Life (which she also read for Simon & Schuster Audio), A Cure for Dreams, A Virtuous Woman, and Ellen Foster. She lives in Raleigh, North Carolina.