Historical Fiction audiobooks

The Accidental Agent

By: Andrew Rosenheim

Narrated by: Tristan Morris

Length: 11 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

The spellbinding conclusion to the Jimmy Nessheim trilogy, by the author of Fear Itself

Fall, 1942. In the midst of war, Special Agent Jimmy Nessheim has asked for extended leave from the FBI. Becoming a law student at the University of Chicago seems like the perfect way to re-enter normal civilian life.   
 
But the University of Chicago is home... Read more

The Highlander

By: Kerrigan Byrne

Narrated by: Derek Perkins

Length: 11 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

They call him the Demon Highlander. The fearsome Lieutenant Colonel Liam MacKenzie is known for his superhuman strength, towering presence, and fiery passion in the heat of battle. As Laird to the MacKenzie clan, the undefeated Marquess has vanquished his foes with all the rage and wrath of his barbaric Highland ancestors. But when an English... Read more

Sunday Kind of Love

By: Dorothy Garlock

Narrated by: Widdi Turner

Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Buckton, Indiana, 1956. As post-war America brims with new opportunities, a young woman discovers the courage to follow her dreams-and her heart . . .

Gwendolyn Foster's life seems like a dream come true. A bright future in front of her, the successful, traditional man her parents wanted at her side. What more could a girl ask for? But Gwen has... Read more

Bones of Paradise

By: Jonis Agee

Narrated by: Christina Traister

Length: 14 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

The award-winning author of The River Wife returns with a multigenerational family saga set in the unforgiving Nebraska Sand Hills in the years following the massacre at Wounded Knee—an ambitious tale of history, vengeance, race, guilt, betrayal, family, and belonging, filled with a vivid cast of characters shaped by violence, love, and a... Read more

To the Bright Edge of the World

By: Eowyn Ivey

Narrated by: John Glouchevitch

Length: 13 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

An atmospheric, transporting tale of adventure, love, and survival from the bestselling author of The Snow Child, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

In the winter of 1885, decorated war hero Colonel Allen Forrester leads a small band of men on an expedition that has been deemed impossible: to venture up the Wolverine River and pierce the vast,... Read more

The Invitation

By: Lucy Foley

Narrated by: Emma Gregory

Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Paris Apartment and The Guest List, an evocative love story set along the Italian Riviera about a group of charismatic stars who all have secrets and pasts they try desperately — and dangerously — to hide.

Rome, 1953: Hal, an itinerant journalist flailing in the post-war darkness, has come to... Read more

As Rich as a Rogue

By: Jade Lee

Narrated by: Elizabeth Bidwell

Length: 12 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Mari Powel's fiery Welsh temper is up. Peter Norwood, Lord Whitly, is back in town after six years romping around India making his fortune. Mari blames him for her social downfall and has spent all this time clawing her way back into the town's good graces. How dare he show up on his first day back and publicly embroil her in a bet involving... Read more

Conquered by the Highlander

By: Eliza Knight

Narrated by: Antony Ferguson

Length: 8 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

After losing his betrothed, Ceana, to a Lowlander, Laird Gabriel MacKinnon is charged with saving her cousin along with a brood of children from an impenetrable castle. Though the lady he's been tasked to protect has been accused of a heinous crime, Gabriel has no fear of her. In fact, he's a little irritated at the prospect of delivering her to... Read more

No Pity For the Dead

By: Nancy Herriman

Narrated by: Stina Nielsen

Length: 11 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

The author of No Comfort for the Lost returns with a new mystery of Old San Francisco. British-born nurse Celia Davies runs a free medical clinic to assist the poor women of San Francisco. She has earned the trust and friendship of many of the city's downtrodden, including a young orphan named Owen. Owen works for a real estate company and... Read more

The Hamilton Affair

By: Elizabeth Cobbs

Narrated by: Coleen Marlo

Length: 11 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Set against the dramatic backdrop of the American Revolution, and featuring a cast of iconic characters such as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and the Marquis de Lafayette, The Hamilton Affair tells the sweeping, tumultuous, true love story of Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler, from tremulous beginning to bittersweet ending—his at... Read more

The Daughter of Union County

By: Francine Thomas Howard

Narrated by: Robin Eller

Length: 15 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

A mother’s devotion. A daughter’s search for identity. This is a heartbreaking and hopeful novel of love, class, and race set against the backdrop of the post–Civil War South.In the late nineteenth-century South, Margaret Hardin has been raised with the advantages befitting her titled parents in the finest house in Arkansas. Unknown to the... Read more

The Prince of Eridu

By: Jesse Hudson

Narrated by: Austin van Fleet

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Ammon-shur has everything a hero should need- personal tutoring in weapons and combat, hands-on training in statecraft and negotiations, and a personal lineage that has been beloved by the patron god of Eridu for aeons. Unfortunately, Ammon's family also has made the members of a dark cabal of the worshippers of the Lord of Chaos into itheir... Read more

Sleeper’s Castle

By: Barbara Erskine

Narrated by: Charlotte Strevens

Length: 19 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Two women, centuries apart. One endless nightmare tearing Wales apart – and only they can stop it. Sunday Times bestselling author Barbara Erskine returns to Hay in the year that marks the 30th anniversary of her sensational debut bestseller, Lady of Hay. Hay-On-Wye, 1400 – War is brewing in the Welsh borders,... Read more

Mail Order Bride - A Bride for Thomas

By: Karla Gracey

Narrated by: Alan Taylor

Length: 1 hour 28 minutes

Abridged: No

This is a standalone audiobook and doesn't need to be read as part of the series.Catherine Parker has been brought up in the lap of luxury, and has always expected she would someday make an expedient marriage, but when her Papa insists she marry a man she knows he despises she has no choice. But will she find the love and companionship she... Read more

A Duke to Remember

By: Kelly Bowen

Narrated by: Ashford McNab

Length: 11 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Love takes the stage . . .

Elise deVries is not what she seems. By night, the actress captivates London theatergoers with her chameleon-like ability to slip inside her characters. By day, she uses her mastery of disguise to work undercover for Chegarre & Associates, an elite agency known for its discreet handling of indelicate scandals. But... Read more

An Untimely Frost

By: Penny Richards

Narrated by: Christine Williams

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Solving crimes is not a dress rehearsal.Chicago, 1881. The idea of a female detective is virtually unheard of. But when famed crime buster Allan Pinkerton opens his agency’s doors to a handful of women, one intrepid actress with her own troubled past is driven to defy convention and take on a new and dangerous role.Since the age of eleven, when... Read more

A Dangerous Beauty

By: Sophia Nash

Narrated by: Bianca Amato

Length: 10 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by the removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.
—The Devil's Dictionary, Ambrose BierceA Courageous Outcast . . .Rosamunde Baird has lost everything and has no choice but to accept an invitation to spend a season with a dowager duchess and her clandestine... Read more

Swept Away

By: Robyn Carr

Narrated by: Thérèse Plummer

Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

The emotional story of a young woman's journey as she leaves behind all the things she thought she wanted only to discover who she really is. #1 New York Times bestselling author ROBYN CARR explores the challenges facing women today as they are valued for what's on the outside rather than the inside. Jennifer Chaise is proud of her life. Coming... Read more

The Lost Girls

By: Heather Young

Narrated by: Alice Rosengard & Laurel Schroeder

Length: 12 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A stunning debut novel that examines the price of loyalty, the burden of regret, the meaning of salvation, and the sacrifices we make for those we love, told in the voices of two unforgettable women linked by a decades-old family mystery at a picturesque lake house.In 1935, six-year-old Emily Evans vanishes from her family’s vacation home on a... Read more

His Scandalous Kiss

By: Sophie Barnes

Narrated by: Rebecca Rogers

Length: 11 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Thorncliff Manor is the perfect setting for a masquerade ball . . . where the heart’s secret desires are about to be uncovered in this scintillating Regency romance from Sophie BarnesRichard Heartly has exiled himself from society since the war, plotting his revenge for a terrible betrayal. A masked ball at Thorncliff Manor is intended to be a... Read more

Saigon

By: Anthony Grey

Narrated by: Gordon Griffin

Length: 34 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Joseph Sherman first visits Saigon, the capital of French colonial Cochin-China, in 1925 on a hunting expedition with his father, a US senator. He is lured back again and again as a traveler, a soldier, and then as a reporter by his fascination for the exotic land and for Lan, a mandarin's daughter he cannot forget. Over five decades Joseph's... Read more

Half Moon Bay

By: Meryl Sawyer

Narrated by: Emily Beresford

Length: 10 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

When her witness protection cover is blown, Amy Conroy flees across the country. With no money and only her dog for company, she steals rides in the trunks of unsuspecting strangers' cars until a tragic accident lands her in a Key West hospital where she is mistaken for the dead driver. Undergoing reconstructive surgery, Amy becomes almost the... Read more

Leaving Lucy Pear

By: Anna Solomon

Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman

Length: 11 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

“From the first page, I was under Anna Solomon’s spell.” —Sue Monk Kidd

From the author of The Book of V., a novel chosen as a must-read book by TIME Magazine, InStyle, Good Housekeeping, The Millions, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and BookPage

Set in 1920s New England, the story of two women who are both mothers to the same unforgettable girl—a... Read more

One Virgin Too Many

By: Lindsey Davis

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

International bestselling author Lindsey Davis has done in the mystery genre what Caesar did in Gaul: came, saw, and conquered! Her innovative series put hard-boiled detective Marcus Didius Falco, “the Sam Spade of ancient Rome” (Publishers Weekly), on the mean streets of the Eternal City. Now Davis returns to AD 74 with a riveting investigation... Read more