Historical Fiction audiobooks

Love at First Sight

By: Barbara Cartland

Narrated by: Sarah Lambie

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Despite the arranged marriages of her two sisters ending in misery, the Duke of Cumberworth insists that his beautiful daughter, Lady "Ila" Lavinia marries the rich and aristocratic Marquis of Rakemoore, his most serious rival at Race Meetings.Ila is appalled. Not only is she determined to marry for love, but she hears that the Marquis is only... Read more

The Forgotten Children

By: Anita Davison

Narrated by: Jane McDowell

Length: 12 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

The forgotten children of London are going missing, apparently being sold by their own families. Can she save them before it's too late...Flora Maguire's life is perfect – a beautiful home in Belgravia teeming with servants, a loving husband, and new baby Arthur to enjoy. But when she is invited to tour St Philomena's Children's Hospital in... Read more

The Bloomsbury Affair

By: Anita Davison

Narrated by: Jane McDowell

Length: 12 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Flora has trodden the path of amateur sleuth before, but with so much at stake, this time it's personal. 1905 London is a heady mix of unimaginable wealth and simmering political tensions, and with war looming Flora Maguire wants to keep her family safe.So when her beloved charge Viscount Edward Trent is accused of murder, she's determined not... Read more

Christmas With Lucy Maud Montgomery

By: Lucy Maud Montgomery

Narrated by: David Wales

Length: 5 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

This work is a selection of Christmas stories (or sometimes chapters) of Lucy Maud Montgomery from different sources and different times. The focus is widened a bit to include a few works about Thanksgiving Day and New Year's Day. LMM was a prolific Canadian author in the early 20th century whose works were very popular in her own country as... Read more

Soldier's Symphony

By: Emma Bray

Narrated by: Emily Ann Meagher

Length: 1 hour 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Erik Duvall is half the man he used to be. The war took its toll on him—most noticeably on the right side of his face. He’s scarred, but those scars run more than skin-deep. He’s repulsed by himself and assumes everyone else must be too. That’s why he hides himself away from the world. The only thing that keeps him sane is his music.He’s a... Read more

Paaten's War

By: Lauren Lee Merewether

Narrated by: Eli Snuggs

Length: 6 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Wounded in war. Captured by the enemy. Sold as a slave.
Despite his situation, Paaten believes his future is not in the enemy land of Hatti. As Paaten struggles to find his way back to his homeland of Egypt, he encounters a Hittite woman and finds himself in an unforeseen battle, waging the biggest war yet: that of his heart...
Will Paaten's... Read more

Aria

By: Samantha Fury

Narrated by: Rick Barr

Length: 2 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Aria’s letter-writing campaign to the Doughboys was a kindness that turned into a journey of the heart. Corresponding with Donald, Joey, and the others became a part of her life. Until one unexpected soldier, Dakota Knox, changed her dreams of becoming a missionary. Instead, the young woman pleads for her new love’s safe return.As an orphan,... Read more

A Lady's Heart Deceived

By: Sasha Cottman

Narrated by: Catherine Bilson

Length: 8 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

His love will heal her heart.It’s been over two years since her fiancé, Robert, died at the battle of Waterloo, and Maggie Radley has spent almost all that time lost in a fog of grief.When she receives a letter from the war office, explaining that they have no record of Robert, she is determined to get to the truth.Captain Piers Denford should... Read more

Our Lady of the Nile

By: Scholastique Mukasonga

Narrated by: Inger Tudor

Length: 6 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Scholastique Mukasonga drops us into an elite Catholic boarding school for young women perched on the edge of the Nile.Parents send their daughters to Our Lady of the Nile to be molded into respectable citizens and to escape the dangers of the outside world. Fifteen years prior to the 1994 Rwandan genocide, we watch as these girls try on their... Read more

The Orphanage

By: Serhiy Zhadan

Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies

Length: 10 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A devastating story of the struggle of civilians caught up in the conflict in eastern UkraineIf every war needs its master chronicler, Ukraine has Serhiy Zhadan, one of Europe’s most promising novelists. Recalling the brutal landscape of The Road and the wartime storytelling of A Farewell to Arms, The Orphanage is a searing novel that excavates... Read more

Unmentionables

By: Laurie Loewenstein

Narrated by: Kelli Tager

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Marian Elliot Adams, an outspoken advocate for sensible undergarments for women, sweeps onto the Chautauqua stage under a brown canvas tent on a sweltering August night in 1917, and shocks the gathered town of Emporia with her speech: How can women compete with men in the work place and in life if they are confined by their undergarments? The... Read more

The Bloomsbury Murder

By: Emily Organ

Narrated by: Sarah Nichols

Length: 4 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

When amateur sleuth Augusta Peel receives a mysterious letter about a missing young woman, she can’t resist helping with the search. But the case takes a turn when an art student is found dead in a Bloomsbury square.Could the murder have something to do with Augusta’s investigation? The more questions she asks, the fewer answers she... Read more

The Broken Bow

By: Larry D. Sweazy

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 11 hours

Abridged: No

Two-time Spur and Will Rogers Medallion Award–winning author Larry D. Sweazy returns with a bold new adventure in his trigger-happy Western series as US Marshal Sam “Trusty” Dawson finds himself targeted for vengeance with his face on a wanted poster. Now he’s up against every cutthroat gunslinger willing to put a bullet through his badge for... Read more

The Glass Rainbow

By: Stephanie Alexander

Narrated by: Ella Lynch

Length: 19 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Four years have passed since Eleanor Brice Desmarais’s darkest secret came to heartbreaking, perilous light. The princess with the cracked glass slipper still mourns unimaginable losses, including the deaths of her son and her best friend. Her lover, Dorian Finley, is in exile in a far northern kingdom. Eleanor and her husband, Crown Prince... Read more

All the Brave Fellows

By: James L. Nelson

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 11 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

It is 1777, the Year of the Hangman, and Captain Isaac Biddlecomb is bound for Philadelphia with his wife and child in the Continental brig Charlemagne.His orders are to take command of the newly built twenty-gun frigate Falmouth and get her out to sea before she is taken by General Richard Howe’s invading army.Unbeknownst to Biddlecomb, the... Read more

The Macedonian

By: Walter Jon Williams

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 10 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Captain Favian Markham, USN, is a man surrounded by secrets—secrets that will be revealed when he is court-martialed for losing his ship.Secrets are held by his mistress Caroline. The secrets of enemy spies signaling to British ships over the horizon. And the greatest secret of the War of 1812, a secret which will be revealed once Favian breaks... Read more

Ralph Compton My Brother, My Killer

By: Jackson Lowry

Narrated by: Ramiz Monsef

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Two brothers face off in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse—one is out for justice … the other is out for blood—in this gripping new Western in Ralph Compton’s bestselling Gunfighter series.They say blood is thicker than water and that family always comes first. But what if your family is the one that wants your blood?Sheriff Jacob Wilkinson loves... Read more

The Deception

By: Kim Taylor Blakemore

Narrated by: Gail Shalan & Hope Newhouse

Length: 10 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A sleight of hand. A trick up the sleeve. A call for the dead. It’s all part of the game in this twisty tale by the bestselling author of After Alice Fell.New Hampshire, 1877. Maud Price was once a celebrated child medium, a true believer in lifting the veil between the living and the dead. Now penniless, her guiding spirits gone, the so-called... Read more

How To Marry An Earl

By: Alyxandra Harvey

Narrated by: Jonathan Johns

Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

A Bluestocking, a betrothal of convenience, a traitor . . . and a handsome rake. What could go wrong?

Persephone Blackwell prefers digging in the dirt for old bones and secret treasure to anything Society might have to offer. When her godfather, the Duke of Pendleton, decides to host a Festival of Antiquaries, she jumps at the chance to take... Read more

Heart of Shadows

By: Rebecca Ruger

Narrated by: Stewart Crank

Length: 10 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Orphaned Isabel Fitzhugh is fourteen when she first comes to Wolvesley by the sea, traveling with her cousin to see her wed to the formidable Liam MacTavish. She's unimpressed, with both her current situation and her cousin's husband. She thinks he is aloof and arrogant, well deserving of her cousin. But then Liam intercedes on her behalf... Read more

Scandal of the Season

By: Liana LeFey

Narrated by: Sasha Higgins

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Lord Sorin Wincanton fled England's shores to avoid temptation in the form of Lady Eleanor Cramley, but upon his return from fighting Bonaparte, the impetuous young miss he escorted through her first season has grown into a stunning woman who still fires his blood. She sees him as a beloved older brother, and that's the way things need to remain... Read more

Sherlock Holmes: Gods of War

By: James Lovegrove

Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman

Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

1913. The clouds of war are gathering. The world’s great empires vie for supremacy. Europe is in turmoil, a powder keg awaiting a spark. A body is discovered on the shore below Beachy Head, just a mile from Sherlock Holmes’s retirement cottage. The local police are satisfied that it’s a suicide. The victim, a young man, recently suffered a... Read more

The Daring Girls of Guernsey

By: Gayle Callen

Narrated by: Jayne Entwistle

Length: 10 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

From USA Today bestselling author Gayle Callen comes a fascinating historical novel of three courageous young women who aid a desperate British spy during the German occupation of Guernsey Island in World War II.



In 1940, Germany seizes control of Guernsey without a fight—but not without resistance. Innocent young teacher Catherine is forced to... Read more

Not In America

By: Roberta Kagan

Narrated by: Kelli Tager

Length: 9 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

"Jews drink the blood of Christian babies. They use it for their rituals. They are evil and they consort with the devil."

The belief is called the Blood Libel.

In a small town in upstate New York in 1928, four-year-old Evelyn Wilson goes missing. Instantly, old prejudices claw to the surface. As a frenzy of panic and bloodlust overwhelms all... Read more