Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/361002 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Virgin's Lover Series: #13 of The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels Author: Philippa Gregory Narrator: Perdita Weeks Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 4 minutes Release date: May 28, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.26 of Total 27 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 3 Genres: Historical Publisher's Summary: From #1 New York Times bestselling author and “queen of royal fiction” (USA TODAY) comes a riveting and scandalous love triangle between a young woman on the brink of greatness, a young man whose ambition far exceeds his means, and the wife who cannot forgive them. In the autumn of 1558, church bells across England ring out the joyous news that Elizabeth I is the new queen, yet one woman hears the tidings with utter dread. She is Amy Dudley, wife of Sir Robert, and she knows that Elizabeth’s ambitious leap to the throne will draw her husband back to the center of the glamorous Tudor court, where he was born to be. Elizabeth’s excited triumph is short-lived. She has inherited a bankrupt country where treason is rampant and foreign war a certainty. Her faithful advisors warns her that she will survive only if she marries a strong prince to govern the rebellious country, but the one man Elizabeth desires is her childhood friend, the ambitious Robert Dudley. As the young couple falls back in love, a question hangs in the air: can he really set aside his wife and marry the queen? When Amy is found dead, Elizabeth and Dudley are suddenly plunged into a struggle for survival.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/361005 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Constant Princess Series: #6 of The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels Author: Philippa Gregory Narrator: Karina Fernandez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 58 minutes Release date: February 26, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.24 of Total 38 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Historical Publisher's Summary: From #1 New York Times bestselling author and “queen of royal fiction” (USA TODAY) Philippa Gregory comes the remarkable story of Katherine of Aragon, Princess of Spain, daughter of two great monarchs, and eventual Queen of England when she marries the infamous King Henry VIII. Daughter of Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand of Spain, Katherine has been fated her whole life to marry Prince Arthur of England. When they meet and are married, the match becomes as passionate as it is politically expedient. The young lovers revel in each other’s company and plan the England they will make together. But tragically, aged only fifteen, Arthur falls ill and extracts from his sixteen-year-old bride a deathbed promise to marry his brother, Henry; become Queen; and fulfill their dreams and her destiny. Widowed and alone in the avaricious world of the Tudor court, Katherine has to sidestep her father-in-law’s desire for her and convince him, and an incredulous Europe, that her marriage to Arthur was never consummated, that there is no obstacle to marriage with Henry. For seven years, she endures the treachery of spies, the humiliation of poverty, and intense loneliness and despair while she waits for the inevitable moment when she will step into the role she has prepared for all her life. Then, like her warrior mother, Katherine must take to the battlefield and save England when its old enemies the Scots come over the border and there is no one to stand against them but the new Queen.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/283196 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Terror: A Novel Author: Dan Simmons Narrator: Tom Sellwood Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 28 hours 28 minutes Release date: February 7, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.14 of Total 22 Ratings of Narrator: 4.83 of Total 6 Genres: Historical Publisher's Summary: The men on board HMS Terror have every expectation of triumph. As part of the 1845 Franklin Expedition, the first steam-powered vessels ever to search for the legendary Northwest Passage, they are as scientifically supported an enterprise as has ever set forth. As they enter a second summer in the Arctic Circle without a thaw, though, they are stranded in a nightmarish landscape of encroaching ice and darkness. Endlessly cold, with diminishing rations, 126 men fight to survive with poisonous food, a dwindling supply of coal, and ships buckling in the grip of crushing ice. But their real enemy is far more terrifying. There is something out there in the frigid darkness: an unseen predator stalking their ship, a monstrous terror constantly clawing to get in.When the expedition's leader, Sir John Franklin, meets a terrible death, Captain Francis Crozier takes command and leads his surviving crewmen on a last, desperate attempt to flee south across the ice. With them travels an Inuit woman who cannot speak and who may be the key to survival, or the harbinger of their deaths. But as another winter approaches, as scurvy and starvation grow more terrible, and as the terror on the ice stalks them southward, Crozier and his men begin to fear that there is no escape. The Terror swells with the heart-stopping suspense and heroic adventure that have won Dan Simmons praise as 'a writer who not only makes big promises but keeps them' (Seattle Post-Intelligencer). With a haunting and constantly surprising story based on actual historical events, The Terror is a novel that will chill you to your core.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/151365 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Temptation Author: Jude Deveraux Narrator: Carrington MacDuffie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 0 minutes Release date: January 3, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.55 of Total 49 Ratings of Narrator: 3.4 of Total 5 Genres: Historical Publisher's Summary: The year is 1909, and Temperance O'Neil is a woman ahead of her time. At 29, she is happily married to her work helping single mothers on the streets of New York. Unfortunately, Angus McCairn -- her new stepfather -- controls the purse strings to her substantial inheritance. Angus insists she quit her career and live in his house in Edinburgh. Temperance heads for Scotland with one mission -- to drive Angus crazy. Angus asks her to pose as housekeeper to Angus' nephew, James, in a secret attempt to find him a wife. If she succeeds in matchmaking, she will be allowed to return to New York. Although James McCairn is Laird of Clan McCairn, he's no cultured gentleman -- he's a strapping, rough-mannered giant interested only in farming. His stables are immaculate, his horses gleam with care, and he lavishes personal attention on his sheep -- but there are pigeons roosting in the kitchen and chickens in the bedrooms. Temperance, is determined to win her return passage at any cost. But the cost may be her heart...for as Temperance O'Neil attempts to open James' eyes to the wonders of love, it is she herself who is liberated -- by the power of an overwhelming passion.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/92605 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Foreign Correspondent Author: Alan Furst Narrator: George Guidall Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 46 minutes Release date: January 4, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.8 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Historical Publisher's Summary: 2007 Audie Award Finalist for Thriller/Suspense

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/92603 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dark Voyage Author: Alan Furst Narrator: George Guidall Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 30 minutes Release date: January 4, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.29 of Total 17 Ratings of Narrator: 3.67 of Total 3 Genres: Historical Publisher's Summary: May, 1941. At four in the morning, a rust-streaked tramp freighter streams up the Tagus River to dock at the port of Lisbon. She is the Santa Rosa; she flies the flag of neutral Spain and is in Lisbon to load cork oak, tinned sardines, and drums of cooking oil bound for the Baltic port of Malmo. Only she is not the Santa Rosa, she is the Noordendam, a Dutch freighter that sails for the Intelligence Division of the British Royal Navy and she will load detection equipment for a clandestine operation on the Swedish coast -- a secret mission, a dark voyage. Here is an epic tale of war and espionage, of spies and fugitives, of love in secret hotel rooms, of courage in the face of impossible odds.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54802 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Etta: A Novel Author: Gerald Kolpan Narrator: Kirsten Potter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 55 minutes Release date: July 30, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Historical Publisher's Summary: When Philadelphia debutante Lorinda Jameson’s bankrupt father commits suicide, the infamous Black Hand mafia is dispatched to collect his debts—or her head. The young orphan rechristens herself “Etta Place” and goes west to earn her keep as a waitress in a remote railroad outpost. But fate and murder soon intervene, and Etta joins forces with Butch Cassidy’s notorious gang, The Wild Bunch. In their hide-out at Hole-in-the-Wall, Wyoming, Etta meets Harry Longbaugh, a.k.a. the Sundance Kid, and begins the passionate and tragic romance that will be the great love of her life. Every step of the way, Etta’s life on the lam is fraught with danger and excitement. Weaving together Etta’s diary entries, Pinkerton Detective Agency memos, and recreated newspaper articles, Gerald Kolpan’s history-based novel brings to life the riveting story of an extraordinary woman.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54841 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Color of Lightning Author: Paulette Jiles Narrator: Jack Garrett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 34 minutes Release date: March 31, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 4 Genres: Historical Publisher's Summary: “Meticulously researched and beautifully crafted.... This is glorious work.” — Washington Post “A gripping, deeply relevant book.” — New York Times Book Review  From Paulette Jiles, author of the critically acclaimed New York Times bestsellers Enemy Women and Stormy Weather, comes a stirring work of fiction set on the untamed Texas frontier in the aftermath of the Civil War. One of only twelve books longlisted for the 2009 Scotiabank Giller Prize—one of Canada’s most prestigious literary awards—The Color of Lightning is a beautifully rendered and unforgettable re-examination of one of the darkest periods in U.S. history.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54784 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Dakota Cipher Series: #3 of Ethan Gage Adventures Author: William Dietrich Narrator: William Dufris Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 25 minutes Release date: March 24, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.33 of Total 3 Genres: Historical Publisher's Summary: “The Dakota Cipher is a supple, elegant thriller that carries the reader triumphantly from one exciting climax to the next.” —Steve Berry, New York Times bestselling author of The Jefferson Key Ethan Gage is a fearless adventurer who has crossed paths (and, sometimes, swords) with the likes of Napoleon Bonaparte and Benjamin Franklin—and whose unabashed derring do puts even Indiana Jones to shame. Now Gage is back for a third time in William Dietrich’s The Dakota Cipher, an ingenious page-turner that carries our hero to the American wilderness in search of an almost unthinkably powerful ancient artifact. No stranger to thrilling action himself, New York Times bestseller James Rollins, author of Black Order, The Last Oracle, and Altar of Eden, is a dedicated fan of Dietrich’s Ethan Gage novels, and proclaims that, “The Dakota Cipher should be read by anyone who loves adventure at its grandest.”

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54835 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Last Dickens: A Novel Author: Matthew Pearl Narrator: Paul Michael Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 0 minutes Release date: March 17, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 3 Genres: Historical Publisher's Summary: In his most enthralling novel yet, the critically acclaimed author Matthew Pearl reopens one of literary history’s greatest mysteries. The Last Dickens is a tale filled with the dazzling twists and turns, the unerring period details, and the meticulous research that thrilled readers of the bestsellers The Dante Club and The Poe Shadow. Boston, 1870. When news of Charles Dickens’s untimely death reaches the office of his struggling American publisher, Fields & Osgood, partner James Osgood sends his trusted clerk Daniel Sand to await the arrival of Dickens’s unfinished novel. But when Daniel’s body is discovered by the docks and the manuscript is nowhere to be found, Osgood must embark on a transatlantic quest to unearth the novel that he hopes will save his venerable business and reveal Daniel’s killer. Danger and intrigue abound on the journey to England, for which Osgood has chosen Rebecca Sand, Daniel’s older sister, to assist him. As they attempt to uncover Dickens’s final mystery, Osgood and Rebecca find themselves racing the clock through a dangerous web of literary lions and drug dealers, sadistic thugs and blue bloods, and competing members of Dickens’s inner circle. They soon realize that understanding Dickens’s lost ending is a matter of life and death, and the hidden key to stopping a murderous mastermind.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54740 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Valley of the Sun Author: Louis L'Amour Narrator: Dramatization Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 0 minutes Release date: March 3, 2009 Genres: Historical Publisher's Summary: Cattlemen ride alone across the open range under the deadly aim of roving desperadoes. . . . Gamblers stake their fortunes and their lives on a deck of cards. . . . Strong-willed señoritas seek independence through an enticing combination of beauty, audacity, and spirit. . . . Lawmen and outlaws walk the same dusty streets and speak a common language: Colt, Winchester, Smith & Wesson. Gritty, tough, and unflinchingly authentic, here is the West as it really was: a land where for every friend there is an enemy, for every handshake a fist, for every dispute a resolution—usually in an explosive showdown of blood and bullets. In these remarkable tales, Louis L’Amour—like the very heroes he depicts—blazes a trail across the American frontier and takes us on an unforgettable journey into the heart of our western heritage.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54599 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Heart and Soul Author: Maeve Binchy Narrator: Sile Bermingham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 16 minutes Release date: February 17, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.17 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Historical Publisher's Summary: “[Maeve] Binchy makes you laugh, cry, and care. Her warmth and sympathy render the daily struggles of ordinary people heroic and turn storytelling into art.”  –San Francisco Chronicle With the insight, humor, and compassion we have come to expect from her, Maeve Binchy tells a story of family, friends, patients, and staff who are part of a heart clinic in a community caught between the old and the new Ireland. Dr. Clara Casey has been offered the thankless job of establishing the underfunded clinic and agrees to take it on for a year. She has plenty on her plate already–two difficult adult daughters and the unwanted attentions of her ex-husband–but she assembles a wonderfully diverse staff devoted to helping their demanding, often difficult patients. Before long the clinic is established as an essential part of the community, and Clara must decide whether or not to leave a place where lives are saved, courage is rewarded, and humor and optimism triumph over greed and self-pity. Heart and Soul is Maeve Binchy at her storytelling best.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54822 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pictures at an Exhibition Author: Sara Houghteling Narrator: Mark Bramhall Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 49 minutes Release date: February 17, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Historical Publisher's Summary: Set in a Paris darkened by World War II, Sara Houghteling’s sweeping and sensuous debut novel tells the story of a son’s quest to recover his family’s lost masterpieces, looted by the Nazis during the occupation. Born to an art dealer and his pianist wife, Max Berenzon is forbidden from entering the family business for reasons he cannot understand. He reluctantly attends medical school, reserving his true passion for his father’s beautiful and brilliant gallery assistant, Rose Clément. When Paris falls to the Nazis, the Berenzons survive in hiding. They return in 1944 to find that their priceless collection has vanished. Madly driven to recover his father’s paintings, Max navigates a torn city of corrupt art dealers, black marketers, Résistants, and collaborators. His quest will reveal the tragic disappearance of his closest friend, the heroism of his lost love, and the truth behind a devastating family secret. Written with tense drama and a historian’s eye for detail, Houghteling’s novel draws on the real-life stories of France’s preeminent art-dealing familes and the forgotten biography of the only French woman to work as a double agent inside the Nazis’ looted art stronghold.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54573 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Drood: A Novel Author: Dan Simmons Narrator: Simon Prebble Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 30 minutes Release date: February 9, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Historical Publisher's Summary: On June 9, 1865, while traveling by train to London with his secret mistress, 53-year-old Charles Dickens -- at the height of his powers and popularity, the most famous and successful novelist in the world and perhaps in the history of the world -- hurtled into a disaster that changed his life forever. Did Dickens begin living a dark double life after the accident? Were his nightly forays into the worst slums of London and his deepening obsession with corpses, crypts, murder, opium dens, the use of lime pits to dissolve bodies, and a hidden subterranean London mere research . . . or something more terrifying? Just as he did in The Terror, Dan Simmons draws impeccably from history to create a gloriously engaging and terrifying narrative. Based on the historical details of Charles Dickens's life and narrated by Wilkie Collins (Dickens's friend, frequent collaborator, and Salieri-style secret rival), Drood explores the still-unsolved mysteries of the famous author's last years and may provide the key to Dickens's final, unfinished work: The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Chilling, haunting, and utterly original, Drood is Dan Simmons at his powerful best.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54820 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet: A Novel Author: Jamie Ford Narrator: Feodor Chin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 52 minutes Release date: January 27, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.36 of Total 86 Ratings of Narrator: 4.71 of Total 14 Genres: Historical Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “An impressive, bitter, and sweet debut that explores the age-old conflicts between father and son, the beauty and sadness of what happened to Japanese Americans in the Seattle era during World War II, and the depths and longing of deep-heart love.”—Lisa See In 1986, Henry Lee joins a crowd outside the Panama Hotel, once the gateway to Seattle’s Japantown. It has been boarded up for decades, but now the new owner has discovered the belongings of Japanese families who were sent to internment camps during World War II. As the owner displays and unfurls a Japanese parasol, Henry, a Chinese American, remembers a young Japanese American girl from his childhood in the 1940s—Keiko Okabe, with whom he forged a bond of friendship and innocent love that transcended the prejudices of their Old World ancestors. After Keiko and her family were evacuated to the internment camps, she and Henry could only hope that their promise to each other would be kept. Now, forty years later, Henry explores the hotel’s basement for the Okabe family’s belongings and for a long-lost object whose value he cannot even begin to measure. His search will take him on a journey to revisit the sacrifices he has made for family, for love, for country. Praise for Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet “A tender and satisfying novel set in a time and a place lost forever, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet gives us a glimpse of the damage that is caused by war—not the sweeping damage of the battlefield but the cold, cruel damage to the hearts and humanity of individual people. This is a beautifully written book that will make you think. And, more important, it will make you feel.”—Garth Stein, bestselling author of The Art of Racing in the Rain “Mesmerizing and evocative, a tale of conflicted loyalties and timeless devotion.”—Sara Gruen, bestselling author of Water for Elephants “A wartime-era Chinese-Japanese variation on Romeo and Juliet . . . The period detail [is] so revealing and so well rendered.”—The Seattle Times “A poignant story that transports the reader back in time . . . a satisfying and heart-wrenching tale.”—Deseret Morning News “A lovely combination of romantic coincidence, historic detail and realism that is smooth and highly readable . . . Ford does wonderful work in re-creating prewar Seattle.”—The Oregonian

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54415 to listen full audiobooks. Title: An Unsuitable Job for a Woman Author: P. D. James Narrator: Penelope Dellaporta Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 23 minutes Release date: January 6, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.75 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Historical Publisher's Summary: P. D. James is “the reigning mistress of murder.” –Time Handsome Cambridge dropout Mark Callender died hanging by the neck with a faint trace of lipstick on his mouth. When the official verdict is suicide, his wealthy father hires fledgling private investigator Cordelia Gray to find out what led him to self-destruction. What she discovers instead is a twisting trail of secrets and sins, and the strong scent of murder. An Unsuitable Job for a Woman introduces P. D. James’s courageous but vulnerable young detective, Cordelia Gray, in a “top-rated puzzle of peril that holds you all the way” (The New York Times).

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54204 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Children of God: A Novel Series: #2 of The Sparrow Series Author: Mary Doria Russell Narrator: Anna Fields Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 53 minutes Release date: December 16, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 5 Genres: Historical Publisher's Summary: In Children of God, Mary Doria Russell further establishes herself as one of the most innovative, entertaining and philosophically provocative novelists writing today. The only member of the original mission to the planet Rakhat to return to Earth, Father Emilio Sandoz has barely begun to recover from his ordeal when the So-ciety of Jesus calls upon him for help in preparing for another mission to Alpha Centauri. Despite his objections and fear, he cannot escape his past or the future. Old friends, new discoveries and difficult questions await Emilio as he struggles for inner peace and understanding in a moral universe whose boundaries now extend beyond the solar system and whose future lies with children born in a faraway place. Strikingly original, richly plotted, replete with memorable characters and filled with humanity and humor, Children of God is an unforgettable and uplifting novel that is a potent successor to The Sparrow and a startlingly imaginative adventure for newcomers to Mary Doria Russell’s special literary magic.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54321 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Revolutionary Road Author: Richard Yates Narrator: Mark Bramhall Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 24 minutes Release date: November 25, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.71 of Total 17 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Historical Publisher's Summary: NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • Frank and April Wheeler are a bright, beautiful, talented couple in the 1950s whose perfect suburban life is about to crumble in this 'moving and absorbing story” (The Atlantic Monthly) from one of the most acclaimed writers of the twentieth century. 'The Great Gatsby of my time...one of the best books by a member of my generation.' —Kurt Vonnegut, acclaimed author of Slaughterhouse-Five Perhaps Frank and April Wheeler married too young and started a family too early. Maybe Frank's job is dull. And April never saw herself as a housewife. Yet they have always lived on the assumption that greatness is only just around the corner. But now that certainty is about to unravel. With heartbreaking compassion and remorseless clarity, Richard Yates shows how Frank and April mortgage their spiritual birthright, betraying not only each other, but their best selves. In his introduction to this edition, novelist Richard Ford pays homage to the lasting influence and enduring power of Revolutionary Road.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54162 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Reader Author: Bernhard Schlink Narrator: Campbell Scott Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 17 minutes Release date: November 11, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.05 of Total 21 Ratings of Narrator: 4.56 of Total 9 Genres: Historical Publisher's Summary: Hailed for its coiled eroticism and the moral claims it makes upon the reader, this mesmerizing novel is a story of love and secrets, horror and compassion, unfolding against the haunted landscape of postwar Germany. When he falls ill on his way home from school, fifteen-year-old Michael Berg is rescued by Hanna, a woman twice his age. In time she becomes his lover--then she inexplicably disappears. When Michael next sees her, he is a young law student, and she is on trial for a hideous crime. As he watches her refuse to defend her innocence, Michael gradually realizes that Hanna may be guarding a secret she considers more shameful than murder.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53815 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Heretic Queen: A Novel Series: #2 of Egyptian Royals Collection Author: Michelle Moran Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 36 minutes Release date: November 4, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.18 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 6 Genres: Historical Publisher's Summary: In this stunning novel of passion, power, and redemption, a forgotten princess in ancient Egypt must overcome her family’s past and remake history—from the internationally bestselling author of Nefertiti and Maria. “Moran’s careful attention to detail and her artful storytelling bring these people to vivid life, imbuing ancient history with suspense and urgency.”—The Boston Globe The winds of change are blowing through Thebes. A devastating palace fire has killed the Eighteenth Dynasty’s royal family—with the exception of Nefertari, the niece of the reviled former queen, Nefertiti. The girl’s deceased family has been branded as heretical, and no one in Egypt will speak their names. But this changes when she is taken under the wing of the Pharoah’s aunt, then brought to the temple of Hathor, where she is educated in a manner befitting a future queen.   Soon Nefertari catches the eye of the Crown Prince, and despite her family’s history, they fall in love and wish to marry. Yet all of Egypt opposes this union between the rising star of a new dynasty and the fading star of an old, heretical one. While political adversity sets the country on edge, Nefertari becomes the wife of Ramses the Great. Destined to be the most powerful Pharoah in Egypt, he is also the man who must confront the most famous exodus in history.