Historical Fiction audiobooks

The Secret Healer

By: Ellin Carsta

Narrated by: Angela Dawe

Length: 10 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

In the fourteenth century, opportunities for women are limited to the home. But spirited young Madlen finds her calling as assistant to the city’s trusted midwife, Clara. Working alongside Clara, Madlen develops a surprisingly soothing technique and quickly becomes a talented healer.After Clara’s tragic death, Madlen alone rushes to assist the... Read more

Summer of the Star

By: Johnny D. Boggs

Narrated by: Traber Burns

Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Recalling his early life as a young cowboy, sixty-two-year-old Madison Carter remembers his first love: her name was Estrella O’Sullivan, and he met her the summer he turned sixteen back in 1873.The summer of 1873 marked Madison’s last drive up what is now called the Chisholm Trail. It was the first time he tasted oysters and the only time he... Read more

Golden Age

By: James Maxwell

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 12 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

The first book in an epic fantasy series by James Maxwell, author of the bestselling Evermen Saga.War is coming to Xanthos. The king refuses to face the truth, but his overlooked second son, Dion, can see the signs: strange warships patrolling, rumors of a new tyrant across the sea, and the princess of a neighboring land taken hostage…The... Read more

Land of Silence

By: Tessa Afshar

Narrated by: Suzy Jackson

Length: 10 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

2017 INSPY Award winner, general fiction category

Before Christ called her daughter …

Before she stole healing by touching the hem of his garment …

Elianna is a young girl crushed by guilt. After her only brother is killed while in her care, Elianna tries to earn forgiveness by working for her father’s textile trade and caring for her family. When... Read more

Julian Fellowes's Belgravia Episode 4

By: Julian Fellowes

Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson

Length: 1 hour 18 minutes

Abridged: No

A dashing young man appears at Lady Brockenhurst's soiree -- but who is he and why is he so favored by their hostess?

Julian Fellowes's Belgravia is a story in 11 episodes published week by week in the tradition of Charles Dickens.

Belgravia is the story of a secret. A secret that unravels behind the porticoed doors of London's grandest postcode.... Read more

Of Windmills and War

By: Diane Moody

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Length: 14 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

The rumblings of war in distant countries mattered little to Danny McClain. Growing up in Chicago, his world revolved around after-school jobs, a rescued beagle, his pen pal in Holland, and the Cubs' chance to go to the World Series. Then, in December of 1941, news of the attack on Pearl Harbor hit much too close to home. In a few years, Danny... Read more

The Rose & the Dagger

By: Renée Ahdieh

Narrated by: Ariana Delawari

Length: 11 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Instant New York Times Bestseller

The much anticipated sequel to the breathtaking The Wrath and the Dawn, lauded by Publishers Weekly as "a potent page-turner of intrigue and romance."

I am surrounded on all sides by a desert. A guest, in a prison of sand and sun. My family is here. And I do not know whom I can trust.

In a land on the brink of war,... Read more

Jilo

By: J.D. Horn

Narrated by: Mia Ellis

Length: 12 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Aged Mother Jilo is wise in the ways of magic…but once upon a time, she was just a girl.1950s Georgia: King Cotton has fallen. Savannah is known as the “beautiful woman with a dirty face,” its stately elegance faded by neglect, its soul withering from racial injustice and political corruption.Young Jilo—fiercely independent, intelligent, and... Read more

Temptations of a Wallflower

By: Eva Leigh

Narrated by: Eva Christensen

Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Eva Leigh’s deliciously sexy Wicked Quills of London series continues as a Lady’s secret career writing erotic fiction is jeopardized by real-life romance . . .In society circles she’s known as the Watching Wallflower—shy, quiet, and certainly never scandalous. Yet beneath Lady Sarah Frampton’s demure façade hides the mind of The Lady of Dubious... Read more

Broken Angels

By: Gemma Liviero

Narrated by: Nico Evers-Swindell & Emily Foster

Length: 13 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

A Nazi doctor. A Jewish rebel. A little girl. Each one will fight for freedom—or die trying.Imprisoned in the Lodz Ghetto, Elsi discovers her mother’s desperate attempt to end her pregnancy and comes face-to-face with the impossibility of their situation. Risking her own life, Elsi joins a resistance group to sabotage the regime.Blonde,... Read more

A Buccaneer at Heart

By: Stephanie Laurens

Narrated by: Steve West

Length: 14 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Unexpected love—plus passion, intrigue, and danger—challenge our hero to embrace his true nature.#1 New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Laurens continues the Adventurers Quartet, a riveting blend of Regency-era high seas adventure, a mystery shrouded in the heat of tropical jungles, and the passionate romances of four couples and their... Read more

The Earl Takes All

By: Lorraine Heath

Narrated by: Helen Lloyd

Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

One summer night, Edward Alcott gives in to temptation and kisses Lady Julia Kenney in a dark garden. However, the passion she stirs within him is best left in the shadows as she weds his twin, the Earl of Greyling. But when tragedy strikes, to honor the vow he makes to his dying brother, Edward must pretend to be Greyling until the countess... Read more

GodPretty in the Tobacco Field

By: Kim Michele Richardson

Narrated by: Katie Schorr

Length: 8 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Atmospheric and searingly honest, GodPretty in the Tobacco Field is Coal Miner’s Daughter meets Winter’s Bone in a gripping tale of tender love and lossNameless, Kentucky, in 1969 is a hardscrabble community where jobs are few and poverty is a simple fact—just like the hot Appalachian breeze or the pests that can wipe out a tobacco field in... Read more

How to Manage a Marquess

By: Sally MacKenzie

Narrated by: Beverley A. Crick

Length: 9 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Two possible futures loom before Miss Anne Davenport. The first option: sharing an unhappy home with her father and soon-to-be stepmother. The second: a life of independence at the Spinster House, if only her friend Cat would vacate the premises and marry the Duke of Hart. A well-placed whisper about the pair's secret tryst might speed the... Read more

City of Secrets

By: Stewart O’Nan

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini

Length: 5 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

From master storyteller Stewart O’Nan comes a timely moral thriller about the Jewish underground resistance in Jerusalem after the Second World War.In 1945, with no homes to return to, Jewish refugees set out for Palestine by the tens of thousands. Those who made it were hunted as illegals by the British mandatory authorities there and relied on... Read more

Piece of Infinity

By: Emily Bold

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

In the third and final volume of Emily Bold’s The Curse Series, Sam returns to the present day from seventeenth-century Scotland, reunited with her love, Payton, and relieved that the curse has been lifted. But their happiness is tempered by Sam’s unsettling feeling that all is not yet right. Overburdened with the guilt she feels for unwittingly... Read more

Magnate

By: Joanna Shupe

Narrated by: Amy Melissa Bentley

Length: 11 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Born in the slums of Five Points, Emmett Cavanaugh climbed his way to the top of a booming steel empire and now holds court in an opulent Fifth Avenue mansion. His rise in stations, however, has done little to elevate his taste in women. He loathes the city's "high society" types, but a rebellious and beautiful blue-blood just might change all... Read more

The Hungry Tide

By: Val Wood

Narrated by: Anne Dover

Length: 16 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Sarah Foster’s parents have been fighting a constant battle with poverty, disease and crime. When her father, Will, is involved in a terrible accident at work, their lives became even harder.

But Will’s good deeds of the past pay off as John Rayner decides to rescue the Fosters. John provides them with work and a house on the estate owned by his... Read more

The Sword Dancer

By: Jeannie Lin

Narrated by: Sarah Lam

Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Chinese historical romance and adventure in the Tang Dynasty The thief who stole his heart Sword dancer Li Feng is used to living life on the edge of the law-- a woman alone in the dangerous world of the Tang Dynasty has only her whirlwind reflexes to trust. She will discover the truth about her past, even if that means outwitting the most... Read more

Trilby

By: George Du Maurier

Narrated by: Bianca Amato

Length: 11 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Trilby opens in the Latin Quarter of Paris where Trilby O'Ferrall works as an artist's model. Her grace and ingenuous charm make a poignant contrast to the cruel magnetism of Svengali, under whose spell she falls. Using hypnotic powers, Svengali shapes her into a virtuoso singer, the toast of Europe, but her golden voice, and even her life,... Read more

Heroes of the South Atlantic

By: Shaun Clarke

Narrated by: James Lailey

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Ultimate soldier. Ultimate mission. But can the SAS prevent British Task Force being destroyed by exocet missiles? It is 1982, and a brutal, bloody war is being waged as British forces try to battle the Argentinians into surrendering the Falkland Islands. As the fighting continues, it becomes clear to British Task... Read more

Julian Fellowes's Belgravia Episode 3

By: Julian Fellowes

Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson

Length: 1 hour 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Lord and Lady Brockenhurst play host to some troublesome relatives while the Trenchards receive an unexpected invitation.

Julian Fellowes's Belgravia is a story in 11 episodes published week by week in the tradition of Charles Dickens.

Belgravia is the story of a secret. A secret that unravels behind the porticoed doors of London's grandest... Read more

Paris Spring

By: James Naughtie

Narrated by: James Naughtie

Length: 10 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Paris in 1968 - seething with revolutionaries and spies - sees Will Flemyng's world turned upside down, after a mysterious encounter on the metro and a chance revelation from a rival operative. In a city alive with talk of revolution, Will finds himself in the thick of the action. But now he gets news that threatens the closest and most... Read more

The Blackmailers

By: Émile Gaboriau

Narrated by: Edward Killingback

Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Monsieur Lecoq of the French Sûreté is called to investigate a Bank Robbery in one of the world’s first detective novels, widely credited as the inspiration for Sherlock Holmes. A sensational bank robbery of 350,000 francs is the talk of Paris, with suspicion falling immediately upon Prosper Bertomy, the young cashier whose... Read more