Historical Fiction audiobooks

The Prisoner of Hell Gate

By: Dana Wolff

Narrated by: Christina Delaine

Length: 8 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

In the Hell Gate section of New York's East River lie the sad islands where, for centuries, people locked away what they most feared: the contagious, the disfigured, the addicted, the criminally insane. Here infection slowly consumed the stricken. Here a desperate captain ran his doomed steamship aground and watched flames devour 1500 souls.... Read more

Jake

By: Keira Montclair

Narrated by: Paul Woodson

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

The Grant heir fights for the lass of his dreams and the future of his clan.
Jake Grant, eldest son of the chief of Clan Grant, has always felt the weight of his sire’s shadow. Tales of Alexander Grant’s prowess are whispered throughout the Highlands, and Alex’s loving marriage to Jake’s mother, Maddie, is equally legendary. Jake’s not sure he... Read more

The Last Woman Standing

By: Thelma Adams

Narrated by: Emily Foster

Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

At once an epic account of an improbable romance and a retelling of an iconic American tale, The Last Woman Standing recalls the famed gunfight at the O.K. Corral through the eyes of a spunky heroine who sought her happy ending in a lawless outpost—with a fierce will and an unflagging spirit.Two decades after the Civil War, Josephine Marcus, the... Read more

The Secret Language of Stones

By: M. J. Rose

Narrated by: Anna Bentinck

Length: 11 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Nestled within Paris’s historic Palais Royal is a jewelry store unlike any other. La Fantasie Russie is owned by Pavel Orloff, protégé to the famous Faberge, and is known by the city’s fashion elite as the place to find the rarest of gemstones and the most unique designs. But war has transformed Paris from a city of style and romance to a place... Read more

The Art of Ruining a Rake

By: Emma Locke

Narrated by: Marian Hussey

Length: 12 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

THE NIGHT THAT STARTED IT ALLPracticed rake Roman Alexander, Lord Montborne, never meant to seduce his best friend's sister. He certainly never intends to do it again. The reckless scoundrel has never felt more compelled to be a better man. Nevertheless, he can't seem to forget her, or her passionate response to his kisses. How much danger can... Read more

The Secret

By: Kathryn Hughes

Narrated by: Rachel Atkins

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the Kindle Number One bestseller The Letter comes a heartbreaking novel of tragedy, hope and second chances, set in England in 1976 and the present day, and in Australia. Readers who treasure the novels of Lesley Pearse and Susan Lewis will adore this author. It's the long hot summer of 1976 and the regulars of The Taverners... Read more

Nor Will He Sleep

By: David Ashton

Narrated by: David Ashton

Length: 14 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

LONDON HAD SHERLOCK HOLMES.

THE DARK ALLEYS OF EDINBURGH HAD INSPECTOR McLEVY.

1887. The streets of Edinburgh seethe with anarchy as two gangs of students rival each other in wild exploits. After a pitched battle between them, an old woman is found savagely battered to death in Leith Harbour.

Enter the Thieftaker - Inspector Jame McLevy. With... Read more

The Last Pearl

By: Leah Fleming

Narrated by: Anne Dover

Length: 12 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

FROM THE ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF THE CAPTAIN'S DAUGHTER AND DANCING AT THE VICTORY CAFE, this is a beautiful novel about one magnificent gem, and three lives bound together by fate ...

1879, York.Greta Costello must rely on her wits to survive. She finds refuge as a Saturday girl for an old jeweller, Saul Abrahams, and her eye for detail, her long... Read more

The Lady and the Mountain Call

By: Misty M. Beller

Narrated by: Lisa Kelly

Length: 6 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

When a nurse sets out to care for an elderly woman living alone in a remote mountain cabin, love is the last thing she expects to find.The wild Montana mountains are no place for an aging widow to live alone with dementia. And when Cathleen Donaghue discovers the poor woman’s condition, there’s no way she’ll walk away without helping. After all,... Read more

Mail Order Bride - A Bride for Mackenzie

By: Karla Gracey

Narrated by: Alan Taylor

Length: 1 hour 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Annie Cahill has had a tough life, forced to leave home and work from an early age to support her sick Mama and younger siblings. Always the one everybody else could rely on she decides to finally reach out to take something for herself. But will she find the courage to see it through.Mackenzie Stott spends his life surrounded by cattle, and... Read more

The Soldier

By: Grace Burrowes

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

His idyllic estate is falling down from neglect, and nightmares of war give him no rest. Then Devlin St. Just meets his new neighbor . . .




With her confident manner hiding a devastating secret, his lovely neighbor commands all of his attention, and protecting Emmaline becomes Devlin's most urgent mission.

Contains mature themes. Read more

Chasing Lady Amelia

By: Maya Rodale

Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

In the second novel of Maya Rodale’s enchanting Keeping Up with the Cavendishes series, an American heiress finds her reputation—and heart—in danger when she travels to London and meets a wickedly tempting rakeTerribly ImproperLady Amelia is fed up with being a proper lady and wishes to explore London, so one night she escapes . . . and finds... Read more

Mystic Montana Sky

By: Debra Holland

Narrated by: Natalie Ross

Length: 10 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

A caravan driven at breakneck speed through the hills of Montana is the least of Magdalena Baxter’s concerns. Evicted from their home, and due to soon give birth, the Gypsy woman is forced to follow her husband, Oswald, a drunk and abusive miner who hopes to find work in a neighboring town.Despite calling Sweetwater Springs home, wealthy banker... Read more

Magic Bitter, Magic Sweet

By: Charlie N. Holmberg

Narrated by: Kate Rudd

Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Maire is a baker with an extraordinary gift: she can infuse her treats with emotions and abilities, which are then passed on to those who eat them. She doesn’t know why she can do this and remembers nothing of who she is or where she came from.When marauders raid her town, Maire is captured and sold to the eccentric Allemas, who enslaves her and... Read more

And I Darken

By: Kiersten White

Narrated by: Fiona Hardingham

Length: 13 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times Bestseller!

“Absolutely riveting.” —Alexandra Bracken, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Darkest Minds

This vividly rendered novel reads like HBO’s Game of Thrones . . . if it were set in the Ottoman Empire. Ambitious in scope and intimate in execution, the story’s atmospheric setting is rife with political intrigue,... Read more

The Daredevil Snared

By: Stephanie Laurens

Narrated by: Steve West

Length: 14 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 New York Times bestselling author of the beloved Cynster novels, Stephanie Laurens takes you on a fresh journey with the Adventurers Quartet, a daring Regency-era adventure laced with mystery, tropical heat and passionate romance.He has something to proveCaptain Caleb Frobisher, hedonistic youngest son of a seafaring dynasty, wants to be... Read more

Chronicle of a Last Summer

By: Yasmine El Rashidi

Narrated by: Yasmine El Rashidi

Length: 4 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

A young Egyptian woman recounts her personal and political coming of age in this brilliant debut novel.

Cairo, 1984. A blisteringly hot summer. A young girl in a sprawling family house. Her days pass quietly: listening to a mother’s phone conversations, looking at the Nile from a bedroom window, watching the three state-sanctioned TV stations... Read more

The Bourbon Thief

By: Tiffany Reisz

Narrated by: Kim Staunton

Length: 11 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Betrayal, revenge and a family scandal that bore a 150–year–old mystery 

When Cooper McQueen wakes up from a night with a beautiful stranger, it's to discover he's been robbed. The only item stolen—a million-dollar bottle of bourbon. The thief, a mysterious woman named Paris, claims the bottle is rightfully hers. After all, the label itself says... Read more

The Damned of Petersburg

By: Ralph Peters

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 13 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Ralph Peters returns with the fourth installment in his Boyd Award–winning series on the Civil War.Glory turned grim … and warfare changed forever.From the butchery of the Crater, where stunning success collapsed into a massacre, through near-constant battles fought by heat-stricken soldiers, to the crucial... Read more

Sherlock Holmes and the Red Demon

By: Larry Millett

Narrated by: Steve Hendrickson

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

In the summer of 1994, a workman at the historic mansion of railroad baron James J. Hill in St. Paul, Minnesota, stumbles on a long-hidden wall safe. When experts arrive to open the safe and examine its contents, they make an astonishing discovery. There, inside, is a handwritten manuscript bearing the signature of John H. Watson, MD. The... Read more

Forevermore

By: Kristen Callihan

Narrated by: Moira Quirk

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Isolated and alone, Sin Evernight is one of the most powerful supernatural creatures in heaven and on earth. As an angel of vengeance, he hunts down the darkest evil, but when his long-lost friend, Layla Starling, needs him, he vows to become her protector. Even though she will be horrified by the man he has become.

Now a famous singer and the... Read more

The White Donkey: Terminal Lance

By: Maximilian Uriarte

Narrated by: Adam McArthur, Kiff VandenHeuvel, Nick Jones, M...

Length: 2 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times bestseller: A graphic novel of war and its aftermath.

A powerful, compulsively page-turning, vivid, and moving tribute to the experience of war and PTSD, The White Donkey tells the story of Abe, a young Marine recruit who experiences the ugly, pedestrian, and often meaningless side of military service in rural Iraq. He enlists... Read more

Simply Love

By: Mary Balogh

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 10 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

She spies him in the deepening dusk of a Wales evening—a lone figure of breathtaking strength and masculinity, his handsome face branded by a secret pain. For single mother and teacher Anne Jewell, newly arrived with her son at a sprawling estate in Wales, Sydnam Butler is a man whose sorrows—and passions—run deeper than she could have ever... Read more

Leaf by Niggle

By: J. R. R. Tolkien

Narrated by: Derek Jacobi

Length: 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Tolkien’s acclaimed modern classic ‘fairie’ tale, read by Derek Jacobi. Leaf by Niggle recounts the strange adventures of the painter Niggle, who sets out to paint the perfect tree. But he senses that he will be snatched away from his work long before it is finished – if indeed it could ever be finished in this world. For it... Read more