For the first time in six years, Jordan returns from California to Utah, to visit his mother in jail. As a young boy he was expelled from his family's secretive polygamous Mormon sect. Now his father has been found shot dead in front of his computer, and one of his many wives Jordan's mother is accused of the crime.

Over a century earlier, Ann Eliza Young, nineteenth wife of Brigham Young, second Prophet of the Mormon Church, tells the sensational story of how she battled for her freedom from her powerful husband, to lead a crusade to end polygamy in the United States.

Bold, shocking and gripping, The 19th Wife expertly weaves together these two narratives in an enthralling epic of love, family, murder and faith.

David Ebershoff, born in 1969 in California, is the author of two bestselling novels in the US. His fiction has been published in more than a dozen countries to critical acclaim and he has won a number of literary awards. He is a lecturer in creative writing at Columbia University.

Kimberly Farr's TV appearances include Live-In, Star Trek: The Next Generation and Newhart.

Rebecca Lowman has been seen on TV in Criminal Minds, The Shield, The Lost Room, Without a Trace, Cold Case and Big Love.

Arthur Morey has narrated over 50 audiobooks for adults and children.

Daniel Passer has appeared on TV in The Little Death, Monk, Grounded for Life, The King of Queens, Providence, Ted and Almost Perfect.