Historical Fiction audiobooks

The Other Daughter

By: Lauren Willig

Narrated by: Nicola Barber

Length: 10 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

From Lauren Willig, author of the New York Times bestselling novel The Ashford Affair, comes The Other Daughter, a tale full of deceit, passion, and revenge.

Raised in a poor yet genteel household, Rachel Woodley is working in France as a governess when she receives news that her mother has died suddenly. Grief-stricken, she returns to the... Read more

The Devil's Bag Man

By: Adam Mansbach

Narrated by: Erik Bergmann

Length: 10 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

In this chilling sequel to The Dead Run, New York Times bestselling author Adam Mansbach mixes horror, the supernatural and gritty suspense to deliver a high-octane, high-concept adventure filled with nasty bad guys, fearsome magic, and an unlikely hero caught in the dangerous terrain of the Tex-Mex borderland.Locked in a Mexican jail for a... Read more

The Painter of Souls

By: Philip Kazan

Narrated by: Daniel Philpott

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Beauty can be a gift...or a wicked temptation...

So it is for Filippo Lippi, growing up in Renaissance Florence. He has a talent - not only can he see the beauty in everything, he can capture it, paint it. But while beauty can seduce you, and art can transport you - it cannot always feed you or protect you.

To survive, Filippo di Tommaso Lippi,... Read more

Surrender the Past

By: Elizabeth Johns

Narrated by: Vanessa Johansson

Length: 9 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

When the past collides with the present, will love and courage be enough to conquer the future?Elinor Abbott was only 14 years old when she and her father left England for America. Six years later, with war at their doorstep, Elinor Abbott is forced to return to her land of birth and a life amongst the aristocracy she abhors. A return to England... Read more

Ordinary Joe

By: Jon Teckman

Narrated by: Leighton Pugh

Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

A brilliant, fast-paced comedy about life behind the scenes in the film business, and how to survive when your greatest fantasy comes true and threatens to wreck your perfectly ordinary life. After the movie, when the credits roll up you might see his name flash past: ‘Joseph West’ and think nothing of it. Not an actor, not... Read more

Once upon a Crime

By: P. J. Brackston

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 8 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York Times bestselling author P. J. Brackston comes the prequel to Gretel and the Case of the Missing Frog Prints.Gretel—yes, that Gretel—is now thirty-five, very large, still living with her brother Hans, and working as a private investigator. The small, sleepy town of Gesternstadt is shaken to its pretty foundations when the workshop... Read more

Miss Emily

By: Nuala O’Connor

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert & Alana Kerr Collins

Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Nuala O’Connor’s enchanting American debut novel, Miss Emily, reimagines the private life of Emily Dickinson through her own voice and through the eyes of her family’s Irish maid.Eighteen-year-old Ada Concannon has just been hired by the respected but eccentric Dickinson family of Amherst, Massachusetts. Despite their difference in age and the... Read more

Deadly Election

By: Lindsey Davis

Narrated by: Jane Collingwood

Length: 11 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

In the first century AD, during Domitian’s reign, Flavia Albia is ready for a short break from her family. So, in July, she returns to Rome, leaving them at their place on the coast. Albia, daughter of Marcus Didius Falco, who is now retired as private informer, has taken up her father’s former profession, and it’s time to get back to work. The... Read more

A Master Plan for Rescue

By: Janis Cooke Newman

Narrated by: Vikas Adam, Paul Boehmer, Kirby Heyborne & Judy...

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

A magical novel about the surprising acts we are capable of in the name of loveSet in 1942 New York and Berlin, A Master Plan for Rescue is an enchanting novel about the life-giving powers of storytelling and the heroism that can be inspired by love. In essence, it is two love stories: that of a child who worships his parents, then loses his... Read more

No Such Person

By: Caroline B. Cooney

Narrated by: Erin Spencer

Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the multimillion-copy bestseller The Face on the Milk Carton, comes a new riveting page-turner.

Murder. One of the Allerdon sisters has been charged with a pre-meditated killing and taken to jail. It doesn't seem possible--but it's happening. What was supposed to be a typical summer is anything but for this seemingly ordinary... Read more

A Heart So True

By: Dorothy Love

Narrated by: Melba Sibrel

Length: 3 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Abigail Clayton hopes to reconcile with Dr. Wade Bennett and become his wife. But her father insists she marry her distant cousin Charles Kittridge so the plantations of the two families will be joined. With her wedding looming, Abby must choose between duty to her family and the yearnings of her own heart. Read more

Love Beyond Limits

By: Elizabeth Musser

Narrated by: Melba Sibrel

Length: 2 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Emily Derracott loves her childhood friend Thomas McGinnis, but she cannot marry a man who doesn’t share her strong convictions about the freedmen. Besides, she harbors a secret love for someone else. But the prospect of becoming his wife is not only improbable—it is completely impossible. Read more

Among the Fair Magnolias

By: Tamera Alexander, Dorothy Love, Shelley Gray & ...

Narrated by: Devon O'Day & Melba Sibrel

Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

“You don’t have to be a fan of Southern fiction or historical fiction to appreciate and enjoy the fabulous storytelling in this collection.” —4½ stars, RT Book ReviewsIn the most turbulent decade of our nation's history, four Southern women—destinies forged by birth, hearts steeled by war—face near impossible choices on their journeys in life .... Read more

Jessica

By: Donna Mabry

Narrated by: Susan Hanfield

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Wealthy heiress Jessica McCarthy desperately wants to be married and have a family. A rogue and a scoundrel, Zachary Belk is the only one who has proposed. Even though her father warns her that Zachary won't make a good husband, she marries him. She soon discovers that her father was right. When the stock market crashes, and both families are... Read more

Stones

By: Ruby Standing Deer

Narrated by: Karen Rose Richter

Length: 12 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

The peace that Shining Light and his family have enjoyed in the Land of the Tall Trees is shattered by his young daughter. Dove's dream of mustangs, and of a young American Indian boy named Singing Stone, and his family known as the Mustang People, will not let her rest."This is an awesome sage of the closeness between man and nature. It shows... Read more

Taken by the Border Rebel

By: Blythe Gifford

Narrated by: Cathleen McCarron

Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Tormented by her innocence As leader of his clan, Black Rob Brunson has earned every dark syllable of his name. But, having taken hostage his enemy's daughter in a fierce act of rebellion, he is tormented by feelings of guilt and torn apart with the growing need to protect her-and seduce her! Stella Storwick feels Rob's disdain from the first.... Read more

The Truth About Lady Felkirk

By: Christine Merrill

Narrated by: Jenny Sterlin

Length: 7 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The wife he doesn't know . When William Felkirk opens his eyes, the past six months are blank. What happened? And who is this beautiful woman claiming to be his wife and caring for his broken body? Justine will do anything to protect her sister, even if that means pretending to be a stranger's wife. She must guard the reasons for her deception... Read more

The Wild Girl

By: Kate Forsyth

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 17 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

One of six sisters, Dortchen Wild lives in the small German kingdom of Hesse-Cassel in the early nineteenth century. She finds herself irresistibly drawn to the boy next door, the handsome but very poor fairy-tale scholar Wilhelm Grimm. It is a time of tyranny and terror. Napoleon Bonaparte wants to conquer all Europe, and Hesse-Cassel is one of... Read more

The Last Pilot

By: Benjamin Johncock

Narrated by: Donald Corren

Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Jim Harrison is a test pilot in the United States Air Force, one of the exalted few. He spends his days cheating death in the skies above the Mojave Desert and his nights at his friend Pancho’s bar, often with his wife, Grace. She and Harrison are secretly desperate for a child—and when, against all odds, Grace learns that she is pregnant, the... Read more

The Curiosity Keeper

By: Sarah E. Ladd

Narrated by: Jude Mason

Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in the same time period and location as Bridgerton and Poldark, this Regency romance brings together a wealthy heir and a mysterious young woman as they search for secrets behind a missing a ruby.Jonathan Gilchrist never wanted to inherit Kettering Hall. A second son, he was content to work as the village apothecary. But when his brother’s... Read more

A Heart's Promise

By: Colleen Coble

Narrated by: Devon O'Day

Length: 1 hour 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Emmie makes a promise to her friend that, if fulfilled, could mean the end to her dreams of a future with Isaac.Emmie Croftner let Isaac Liddle go to avoid telling him about her past. But Isaac remains determined to win Emmie’s heart and hand. Though Emmie resolves to keep her heart in check, it hurts when she sees that another woman has set her... Read more

Refining Fire

By: Tracie Peterson

Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Twenty-two-year-old Militine Scott is in training at the Madison Bridal School in Seattle, yet she has no intention of pursuing marriage. What respectable man would have her? But she has found the school provides the perfect opportunity to keep her unsavory past hidden. Thane Patton, though fun-loving and fiercely loyal to his friends, hides a... Read more

The Silver Pigs

By: Lindsey Davis

Narrated by: Christian Rodska

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

The Silver Pigs is the classic novel that introduced readers around the world to Marcus Didius Falco, a private informer with a knack for trouble, a tendency for bad luck, and a frequently inconvenient drive for justice.When Marcus Didius Falco encounters the young and very pretty Sosia Camillina in the Forum, he senses immediately that there is... Read more

The Girl Who Wrote in Silk

By: Kelli Estes

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller

Length: 12 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The smallest items can hold centuries of secrets.Inara Erickson is exploring her deceased aunt’s island estate when she finds an elaborately stitched piece of fabric hidden in the house. As she peels back layer upon layer of the secrets it holds, Inara’s life becomes interwoven with that of Mei Lein, a young Chinese girl mysteriously driven from... Read more