Historical Fiction audiobooks

Swords and Scoundrels

By: Julia Knight

Narrated by: Angèle Masters

Length: 11 hours

Abridged: No

Two siblings.

Outcasts for life. . .. together.

What could possibly go wrong?

Vocho and Kacha are champion duelists: a brother and sister known for the finest swordplay in the city of Reyes. Or at least they used to be-until they were thrown out of the Duelist's Guild.

As a last resort, they turn reluctant highwaymen. But when they pick the... Read more

Sporting Guide

By: Liz Goldwyn

Narrated by: Susan Ericksen & David Colacci

Length: 3 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A brilliantly imaginative recreation of an 1890s Los Angeles pocket guide, or "Sporting Guide," to the brothels of the day.Before there was the glitz and glamour of Hollywood, Los Angeles was a rough place, building its way out to the global city of today. In the late nineteenth century it was a rapidly growing city filled with pimps and... Read more

Cleopatra's Shadows

By: Emily Holleman

Narrated by: Katy Sobey

Length: 13 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Page-turning historical fiction that reimagines the beginnings of Cleopatra's epic saga through the eyes of her younger sister.

Before Caesar and the carpet, before Antony and Actium, before Octavian and the asp, there was Arsinoe.

Abandoned by her beloved Cleopatra and an indifferent father, young Arsinoe must fight for her survival in the... Read more

The Sans Pareil Mystery

By: Karen Charlton

Narrated by: Michael Page

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

On a cold February night in Regency London, a dark curtain falls on the Sans Pareil Theatre following the death of April Clare, a promising young actress, whose body is found in mysterious circumstances.Detective Stephen Lavender and his dependable deputy, Constable Woods, quickly discover that nothing is quite as it seems. As successive... Read more

Lightning of Gold

By: Max Brand

Narrated by: Nick Podehl

Length: 7 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

From legendary Western author Max Brand comes a tale of covert espionage, gold, and a mysterious figure on horseback.In this dramatic and strange story, Lefty Bill Ranger, an Alaskan mail carrier, travels to Circle City through a terrific snowstorm. There he meets Menneval—a man who is widely feared throughout the territory—and is offered a job.... Read more

Shadows of Doubt

By: Elizabeth Johns

Narrated by: Jack Wynters

Length: 6 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Andrew Abbott was the last man standing; all of his friends had succumbed to leg shackles. Now that he had sold out from the army, he was unsure how he wanted to spend the rest of his life. His father proposed sending him back to restore their burned plantation in America, but just as he was set to leave, he met the woman of his dreams.Gwendolyn... Read more

The Devil's Daughters

By: Diana Bretherick

Narrated by: Daniel Philpott

Length: 13 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

1888. When young Scottish scientist James Murray receives a letter from Sofia Esposito, a woman he once loved and lost, he cannot refuse her cry for help. Sofia's fifteen-year-old cousin has vanished but, because of her lower-class status, the police are unwilling to investigate.

Accompanied by his younger sister Lucy, Murray returns to the city... Read more

A Land Divided

By: K. M. Ashman

Narrated by: Napoleon Ryan

Length: 9 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

1081. William’s bloody conquest is over and Britain is under Norman rule. But one bastion of resistance remains: Wales. A divided land where brother fights brother and kings battle for power. The English use this to further their own ends, and while one king is tempted by an offer he cannot resist, the others wage war over long-forgotten... Read more

The Dress

By: Kate Kerrigan

Narrated by: Genevieve Swallow

Length: 11 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Lily Fitzpatrick loves vintage clothes. But this passion for beautiful clothes is about to have unforeseen consequences, when Lily stumbles upon the story of a 1950s New York beauty, who shares Lily's surname. Joy Fitzpatrick was a legend. But what was the famous dress which she once commissioned? What happened to it - and why did Joy suddenly... Read more

The Other Duke

By: Jess Michaels

Narrated by: Danielle O'Farrell

Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

A hot historical romance from USA Today best-selling author Jess MichaelsFor years Serafina McPhee has been engaged to marry the heir to the duke of Hartholm; and for almost as long, she has been struggling to find a way out of that engagement. When he suddenly dies, she does not mourn but thrills at the idea that she will be free.... Read more

The Taming of Malcolm Grant

By: Paula Quinn

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

An alluring lass …Emmaline Grey spends her days with her beloved dog, dreaming of the sea—until a brawling Highlander shatters her quiet life. Though her blindness prevents her from seeing his face, his voice is a warm blend of velvet and silk, and his rakehell ways unmistakable. Risking the wrath of a rival clan as she nurses him back to... Read more

Reign of Iron

By: Angus Watson

Narrated by: Sean Barrett

Length: 15 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

WARRIOR QUEENS AND ROMAN INVADERS DO BATTLE IN THE FINAL VOLUME OF THIS THRILLING EPIC FANTASY TRILOGY.

Caesar's soldiers have murdered, massacred and pillaged their way through Gaul and loom on the far side of the sea, ready to descend upon Britain -- with them are an unstoppable legion of men twisted by dark magic. Somehow Queen Lowa must repel... Read more

The Stolen Mackenzie Bride

By: Jennifer Ashley

Narrated by: Angela Dawe

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

1745, Scotland: The youngest son of the scandalous Mackenzie family, Malcolm is considered too wild to tame . . . until he meets a woman who is too unattainable to resist.



Lady Mary Lennox is English, her father highly loyal to the king, and promised to another Englishman. But despite it being forbidden to speak to Malcolm, Lady Mary is... Read more

Dead Man's Road

By: Randy Denmon

Narrated by: Pete Bradbury

Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

A nation is staggering to its feet after the long, devastating Civil War. The West is full of dreamers, wanderers, fighters and builders. One man has a plan to build a railroad-that plunges him into a brutal battle for survival. IN A LAND OF BEAUTY AND DEATH. In the high Rocky Mountains, Civil War veteran Marshall Brewster has a vision of wealth... Read more

The Determined Heart

By: Antoinette May

Narrated by: Susan Duerden

Length: 12 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Two hundred years after Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein came to life on the page, this beautifully written novel reveals her fascinating and frightening true story of love and obsession, betrayal and redemption.The daughter of political philosopher William Godwin and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley had an unconventional childhood... Read more

Forever Your Earl

By: Eva Leigh

Narrated by: Carmen Rose

Length: 12 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Eva Leigh's irresistible new series introduces the Wicked Quills of London: a group of bold, brilliant female writers whose spirited allure is beyond seductive . . .Eleanor Hawke loves a good scandal. And readers of her successful gossip rag live for the exploits of her favorite subject: Daniel Balfour, the notorious Earl of Ashford. So when the... Read more

The Last Midwife

By: Sandra Dallas

Narrated by: Pilar Witherspoon

Length: 10 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

With Sandra Dallas's incomparable gift for creating a sense of time and place and characters that capture your heart, The Last Midwife tells the story of family, community, and the secrets that can destroy and unite them.

It is 1880 and Gracy Brookens is the only midwife in a small Colorado mining town where she has delivered hundreds, maybe... Read more

Small Bones

By: Vicki Grant

Narrated by: Jules Price

Length: 5 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Dot, whose name reflects her stature, has always had big dreams—but her dreams have to be put on hold while she searches for the truth about her parents. She gets a job as a seamstress at a lakeside resort in rural Ontario and falls hard for Eddie, a charming local boy who is equal parts helpful and distracting as Dot investigates her past.... Read more

Stones on a Grave

By: Kathy Kacer

Narrated by: Anne Marie Damman

Length: 4 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

June 1964, Sara has never been out of the tiny town of Hope, Ontario, where she has been in an orphanage all her life. After a fire destroys the Benevolent Home for Necessitous Girls, clues about her parentage—a medical certificate and a Star of David—lead her to Germany. Despite her fears—she doesn’t speak the language, she knows no one in... Read more

A Place We Knew Well

By: Susan Carol McCarthy

Narrated by: Christopher Lane & Karen Peakes

Length: 9 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

“Susan Carol McCarthy blends fact, memory, imagination and truth with admirable grace,” said The Washington Post of the author’s critically acclaimed debut novel, Lay That Trumpet in Our Hands. Now McCarthy returns with another enthralling story of a family—their longings, their fears, and their secrets—swept up in the chaos at the height of the... Read more

A Line of Blood

By: Ben McPherson

Narrated by: Steve West

Length: 15 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Whose secrets cut deeper?
Your family's.Whose secrets do you fear?
Your neighbor's.Whose secrets can kill?
Your own.For Alex Mercer, his wife, Millicent, and their precocious eleven-year-old son, Max, are everything—his little tribe that makes him feel all's right with the world. But when he and Max find their enigmatic next-door neighbor dead in... Read more

Mad About the Major

By: Elizabeth Boyle

Narrated by: Susan Duerden

Length: 5 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The pampered daughter of a duke … Lady Arabella Tremont has spent her entire life protected and overshadowed by her restrictive father. But she is a Tremont, after all, and the morning after she is nearly ruined at a ball by a handsome stranger, Arabella's father demands she make an arranged match with the heir to a dukedom. In desperation,... Read more

A Man's Word

By: Martin Jensen

Narrated by: Napoleon Ryan

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

The crime-solving duo known as the King’s Hounds—Halfdan and his master, Winston—are investigating a possible plot against King Cnut by onetime enemy-turned-ally Jarl Thorkell. Joined on the arduous journey by Winston’s woman, Alfilda, and Atheling, his cranky mule, they venture to the markets in Thetford to gather information.On the way, they... Read more

Early One Morning

By: Virginia Baily

Narrated by: Jilly Bond

Length: 12 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Two women's decision to save a child during WWII will have powerful reverberations over the years.

Chiara Ravello is about to flee occupied Rome when she locks eyes with a woman being herded on to a truck with her family. Claiming the woman's son, Daniele, as her own nephew, Chiara demands his return; only as the trucks depart does she realize... Read more