Historical Fiction audiobooks

Courted by a Cowboy

By: Lacy Williams

Narrated by: Laurel Merlington

Length: 1 hour 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Sam Castlerock has been a disappointment to his banker father his entire life—but he’s been given one chance to change his father’s mind. The only thing standing in his way: the beautiful woman Sam has loved from a distance… Read more

The Brightest Star in the Highlands

By: Keira Montclair

Narrated by: Paul Woodson

Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Jennie Grant has always wished to be a healer, but when her clan becomes involved in the violence that has broken out across the Highlands, it shakes her belief in herself. She no longer knows if she can work in a trade where life and death exist in such a fine balance. Desperate to clear her head and spend some time away from the wounded men... Read more

Sacrifice

By: Philip Freeman

Narrated by: Fiona Hardingham

Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

In a time when Celtic druids roamed ancient Ireland, young Sister Deirdre rushes to hunt down the brutal serial killer targeting her beloved monastery.Someone is killing the nuns of Ireland.The grisly discovery of an elderly sister of Saint Brigid’s monastery strangled, bled dry, and thrown into a bog is just the beginning. Soon a beautiful... Read more

Wrath of the Furies

By: Steven Saylor

Narrated by: Stephen Plunkett

Length: 12 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

In 88 B.C., it seems as if the entire ancient world is at war. In the west, the Italian states are rebelling against Rome; in the east, Mithridates is marching through and conquering the Roman Asian provinces. Even in the relatively calm Alexandria, a coup has brought a new Pharaoh to power and chaos to the streets. The young Gordianus has been... Read more

The Emperor of Any Place

By: Tim Wynne-Jones

Narrated by: Todd Haberkorn

Length: 9 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

The ghosts of war reverberate across the generations in a riveting, time-shifting story within a story from acclaimed thriller writer Tim Wynne-Jones.When Evan’s father dies suddenly, Evan finds a hand-bound yellow book on his desk—a book his dad had been reading when he passed away. The book is the diary of a Japanese soldier stranded on a... Read more

All the Stars in the Heavens

By: Adriana Trigiani

Narrated by: Blair Brown

Length: 14 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times Bestseller • USA Today Bestseller • Publishers Weekly Bestseller People's Book of the WeekAnnual Library of Virginia Literary Awards Nominee for FictionAdriana Trigiani, the New York Times bestselling author of the blockbuster epic The Shoemaker's Wife, returns with her biggest and boldest novel yet, a hypnotic tale based on a... Read more

Of Sorrow and Such

By: Angela Slatter

Narrated by: Marisa Calin

Length: 3 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Mistress Gideon is a witch. The locals of Edda's Meadow, if they suspect it of her, say nary a word-Gideon has been good to them, and it's always better to keep on her good side. Just in case.

When a foolish young shapeshifter goes against the wishes of her pack, and gets herself very publicly caught, the authorities find it impossible to deny... Read more

City on Fire

By: Garth Risk Hallberg

Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman, Tristan Morris, Bronson Pinchot...

Length: 37 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

A big-hearted, boundary-vaulting novel that heralds a remarkable new talent: set in 1970s New York, a story outsized in its generosity, warmth, and ambition, its deep feeling for its characters, its exuberant imagination.

The individuals who live within this extraordinary first novel are: Regan and William Hamilton-Sweeney, estranged heirs to one... Read more

Twain's End

By: Lynn Cullen

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 12 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling and highly acclaimed author of the “page-turning tale” (Library Journal, starred review) Mrs. Poe comes a fictionalized imagining of the personal life of America’s most iconic writer: Mark Twain.

In March of 1909, Mark Twain cheerfully blessed the wedding of his private secretary, Isabel V. Lyon, and his business manager,... Read more

The Merchant's Daughter

By: Melanie Dickerson

Narrated by: Jude Mason

Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

An unthinkable danger. An unexpected choice. Annabel, once the daughter of a wealthy merchant, is trapped in indentured servitude to Lord Ranulf, a recluse who is rumored to be both terrifying and beastly. Her circumstances are made even worse by the proximity of Lord Ranulf’s bailiff—a revolting man who has made unwelcome advances on Annabel in... Read more

Death Wears A Mask

By: Ashley Weaver

Narrated by: Alison Larkin

Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Amory Ames is looking forward to a tranquil period of reconnecting with reformed playboy husband Milo after an unexpected reconciliation following the murderous events at the Brightwell Hotel. However, she is drawn into another investigation when Serena Barrington asks her to look into the disappearance of valuable jewelry snatched at a dinner... Read more

Scars of Betrayal

By: Sophia James

Narrated by: Simone Phillips

Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

The long-kept secret Cassandra Northrup had believed Nathaniel dead.until now. Once, she had loved him, given herself to him in the hidden depths of the snow-covered Pyrenees. But then she had betrayed him . Relief at the sight of Nathaniel turns to darkest shame as Cassie sees the hate in his eyes. Years have passed and their physical scars... Read more

Tyger

By: Julian Stockwin

Narrated by: Christian Rodska

Length: 10 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Unputdownable naval action from the master of the sea story - 'In Stockwin's hands the sea story will continue to entrance readers across the world' Guardian

The greatest naval trial in the Georgian period is underway at Portsmouth with the court martial of Sir Home Popham, Captain Sir Thomas Kydd's commanding officer in the doomed occupation of... Read more

Fire and Ice

By: Mary Connealy

Narrated by: Barbara McCulloh

Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Saddle Up for a Wildly Fun Ride in Mary Connealy's Latest Bailey Wilde is one of the best new ranchers in the West. She's been living disguised as a man for a while, but when Gage Coulter comes to drive her off her homestead, he quickly realizes he's dealing with a woman-a very tough, very intriguing woman at that. Gage is an honest man, but he... Read more

Tall, Dark, and Wicked

By: Madeline Hunter

Narrated by: Lulu Russell

Length: 11 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

A wickedly wonderful new romance from the New York Times bestselling author of His Wicked ReputationMost women will give him anything he wants. She is not most women …As a well-known barrister and the son of a duke, Ives confines his passionate impulses to discreet affairs with worldly mistresses. A twist of fate, however, has him looking for a... Read more

The Healer's Apprentice

By: Melanie Dickerson

Narrated by: Jude Mason

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

A realistic, fast-paced reimagining of the Sleeping Beauty fairytale full of royalty, romance, and danger. This masterful combination of love and heartbreak—combined with the novel’s surprise ending—is everything fans of fantasy, historical, and medieval fiction yearn for.Rose has been appointed as a healer’s apprentice at Hagenheim Castle, a... Read more

Buffalo Trail

By: Jeff Guinn

Narrated by: David Carpenter

Length: 13 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times-bestselling author of The Last Gunfight Jeff Guinn once again brings the Old West to life in the grand follow-up to Glorious. After barely escaping nemesis Killer Boots in the tiny Arizona Territory town of Glorious, Cash McLendon is in desperate need of a safe haven somewhere-anywhere-on the frontier. Fleeing to Dodge City, he... Read more

Red Fire

By: Max Brand

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor & Dion Graham

Length: 7 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

From legendary Western author Max Brand comes a collection of stories about a slave, a jewel thief, and a captive.In “Master and Man,” Bobbie is a black man who can outride, outfight, and outshoot any white man in the mountain desert. His unwavering moral code serves as a model for his often cruel and dissolute white master.“A Lucky Dog” is a... Read more

A Tale of Two Cities

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Gildart Jackson

Length: 16 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Unjustly imprisoned for 18 years in the Bastille, Dr. Alexandre Manette is reunited with his daughter, Lucie, and safely transported from France to England. It would seem that they could take up the threads of their lives in peace. As fate would have it though, the pair are summoned to the Old Bailey to testify against a young Frenchman -... Read more

My Mother's Secret

By: J. L. Witterick

Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley

Length: 2 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Franciszka and her daughter, Helena, are simple, ordinary people until 1939, when the Nazis invade their homeland. Providing shelter to Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland is a death sentence, but Franciszka and Helena do exactly that. In their tiny home in Sokal, they hide a Jewish family in a loft above their pigsty, a Jewish doctor with his wife and... Read more

Virtuous Scoundrel

By: Maggie Fenton

Narrated by: Sue Pitkin

Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Sebastian Sherbrook, a self-proclaimed scoundrel and the newly minted Marquess of Manwaring, returns to London after his estranged uncle dies, intent on reforming his rakish image once and for all. Yet through no fault of his own, he’s soon embroiled in the biggest scandal of the Season, and his secret plans to court the only woman he’s ever... Read more

A.D. 33

By: Ted Dekker

Narrated by: Ellen Archer

Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Ted Dekker delivers the gripping story of Maviah, a slave who becomes a queen in Arabia, A.D. 33. They call her the Queen of the Outcasts. Maviah, a woman whose fate was sealed on her birth by this world-unwanted, illegitimate, female, a slave-subject to the whims of all. But then she met a man named Yeshua who... Read more

The Great Train Robbery

By: Michael Crichton

Narrated by: Michael Kitchen

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

In teeming Victorian London, where lavish wealth and appalling poverty live side by side, Edward Pierce charms the most prominent of the well-to-do as he cunningly orchestrates the crime of the century. Who would suspect that a gentleman of breeding could mastermind the daring theft of a fortune in gold? Who could predict the consequences of... Read more

The Iron Hand of Mars

By: Lindsey Davis

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

When Germanic troops in the service of the empire begin to rebel, and a Roman general disappears, Emperor Vespasian turns to the one man he can trust: Marcus Didius Falco, a private informer whose rates are low enough that even the stingy Vespasian is willing to pay them.To Falco, an undercover tour of Germany is an assignment from Hades. On a... Read more