Historical Fiction audiobooks

The Winter Horses

By: Philip Kerr

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

It will soon be another cold winter in the Ukraine. But it's 1941, and things are different this year. Max, the devoted caretaker of an animal preserve, must learn to live with the Nazis who have overtaken this precious land. He must also learn to keep secrets—for there is a girl, Kalinka, who is hiding in the park.

Kalinka has lost her home,... Read more

The Master Magician

By: Charlie N. Holmberg

Narrated by: Amy McFadden

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Throughout her studies, Ceony Twill has harbored a secret, one she’s kept from even her mentor, Emery Thane. She’s discovered how to practice forms of magic other than her own—an ability long thought impossible.While all seems set for Ceony to complete her apprenticeship and pass her upcoming final magician’s exam, life quickly becomes... Read more

Madeleine’s War

By: Peter Watson

Narrated by: Gildart Jackson

Length: 14 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

A compulsively readable blend of romance and drama based on actual events in Britain and France leading up to D-day in 1944Matthew Hammond is a British military officer posted to the European theater during World War II. He sustained a serious injury on the front lines, so bad, in fact, that it cost him a lung. Now he is back in England, unable... Read more

The Blue Flower

By: Penelope Fitzgerald

Narrated by: Derek Perkins

Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The Blue Flower is set in the age of Goethe, in the small towns and great universities of late eighteenth-century Germany. It tells the true story of Friedrich von Hardenberg, a passionate, impetuous student of philosophy who will later gain fame as the romantic poet Novalis. Fritz seeks his father's permission to wed his "heart's heart," his... Read more

My Highland Spy

By: Victoria Roberts

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Laird Ruairi Sutherland refuses to send his only son away to be educated by the English. And he most definitely will not appear in Edinburgh to pay homage to a liege who has no respect for Scotland. So he does what any laird would do—he lies to the king. The last thing Ruairi expects is a beautiful English governess to appear on his... Read more

The Fateful Lightning

By: Jeff Shaara

Narrated by: Paul Michael

Length: 25 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From Jeff Shaara comes the riveting final installment in the Civil War series that began with A Blaze of Glory and continued in A Chain of Thunder and The Smoke at Dawn.

November 1864: As the Civil War rolls into its fourth bloody year, the tide has turned decidedly in favor of the Union. A grateful Abraham Lincoln... Read more

The Spring Bride

By: Anne Gracie

Narrated by: Alison Larkin

Length: 11 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

On the eve of the London season, Jane Chance is about to make her entrance into high society. And after a childhood riddled with poverty and hardship, Jane intends to make a good, safe, and sensible marriage. All goes according to plan until a dark, dangerous vagabond helps her rescue a dog.



Zachary Black is all kinds of unsuitable—a former spy,... Read more

A Heart's Betrayal

By: Colleen Coble

Narrated by: Devon O'Day

Length: 1 hour 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Emmie finds shelter in the arms of a soldier, but her secret could drive them apart.When Emmie Croftner answered the door to her late husband’s home, she discovered an awful truth: her deceased husband was a bigamist. And what’s more, the home she thought she inherited never belonged to her at all.Suddenly displaced, powerless, and ashamed,... Read more

Saint Mazie

By: Jami Attenberg

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 9 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Meet Mazie Phillips: big-hearted and bawdy, she's the truth-telling proprietress of The Venice, the famed New York City movie theater. It's the Jazz Age, with romance and booze aplenty--even when Prohibition kicks in--and Mazie never turns down a night on the town. But her high spirits mask a childhood rooted in poverty, and her diary, always... Read more

The Surfacing

By: Cormac James

Narrated by: Chris MacDonnell

Length: 15 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Far from civilization, on the hunt for Sir John Franklin's recently lost Northwest Passage expedition, Lieutenant Morgan and his crew find themselves trapped in ever-hardening Arctic ice that threatens to break apart their ship. When Morgan realizes that a stowaway will give birth to his child in the frozen wilderness, he finds new clarity and... Read more

The Shadow Revolution: Crown & Key

By: Clay Griffith & Susan Griffith

Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith

Length: 10 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

A thrilling new Victorian-era urban fantasy for fans of Kevin Hearne’s Iron Druid Chronicles, the Showtime series Penny Dreadful, and the Sherlock Holmes movies featuring Robert Downey, Jr.
 
They are the realm’s last, best defense against supernatural evil. But they’re going to need a lot more silver.
 
As fog descends, obscuring the gas lamps of... Read more

Crow Hollow

By: Michael Wallace

Narrated by: Rosemary Benson

Length: 10 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1676, an unlikely pair—a young Puritan widow and an English spy—journeys across a land where greed and treachery abound.Prudence Cotton has recently lost her husband and is desperate to find her daughter, captured by the Nipmuk tribe during King Philip’s war. She’s convinced her daughter is alive but cannot track her into the wilderness... Read more

The Wood's Edge

By: Lori Benton

Narrated by: Liz Pearce

Length: 14 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

At the wood's edge cultures collide. Can two families survive the impact? The 1757 New York frontier is home to the Oneida tribe and to British colonists, yet their feet rarely walk the same paths. On the day Fort William Henry falls, Major Reginald Aubrey is beside himself with grief. His son, born that day, has died in the arms of his sleeping... Read more

What Tomorrow Brings

By: Mary Fitzgerald

Narrated by: Penelope Freeman

Length: 16 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

August 1937

Seffy Blake falls in love with Amyas Troy from the moment she sees him on a Cornish beach. But when he disappears, she is forced to face the consequences of their affair alone.

In London, Seffy makes a new life for herself working as an assistant to journalist Charlie Bradford, and as Europe hurtles towards war, it is Charlie who sees... Read more

Balm

By: Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Narrated by: Lisa Renee Pitts

Length: 9 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling author of Wench returns to the Civil War era to explore the next chapter of history—the trauma of the War and the end of slavery—in this powerful story of love and healing about three people who struggle to overcome the pain of the past and define their own future.The Civil War has ended, and Madge, Sadie, and Hemp... Read more

The Ghost and Mrs. Jeffries

By: Emily Brightwell

Narrated by: Lindy Nettleton

Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Inspector Witherspoon always triumphs...but how does he do it? Even the inspector himself doesn't know—because his secret weapon is as ladylike as she is clever. She's Mrs. Jeffries—the determined, delightful detective, who is also Inspector Witherspoon's housekeeper.




While death is unpredictable, the murder of Mrs. Hodges was foreseen at a... Read more

Letters to the Lost

By: Iona Grey

Narrated by: Avita Jay

Length: 16 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

An accomplished novel from a talented writer, Letters to the Lost is a stunning, emotional love story. Iona Grey's prose is warm, evocative, and immediately engaging; her characters become so real you can't bear to let them go.

I promised to love you forever, in a time when I didn't know if I'd live to see the start of another week. Now it looks... Read more

Dearest Rogue

By: Elizabeth Hoyt

Narrated by: Ashford McNab

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

HE CAN GUARD HER
Lady Phoebe Batten is pretty, vivacious, and yearning for a social life befitting the sister of a powerful duke. But because she is almost completely blind, her overprotective brother insists that she have an armed bodyguard by her side at all times-the very irritating Captain Trevillion.

FROM EVERY DANGER
Captain James... Read more

A Match for Marcus Cynster

By: Stephanie Laurens

Narrated by: Matthew Brenher

Length: 13 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Laurens returns to rugged Scotland with a dramatic tale of passionate desire, unwavering devotion, and a match too powerful to deny.Restless and impatient, Marcus Cynster waits for fate to come calling. He knows his destiny lies in the lands surrounding his family home, but what will his future be and... Read more

Colossus

By: Colin Falconer

Narrated by: Neil Shah

Length: 10 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

A researcher with an eye for exotic history, bestselling novelist Colin Falconer commands an international audience. Here aspiring captain Gajendra and the massive war elephant Colossus make a meteoric rise to prominence in Alexander the Great's army. But as Alexander's forces approach the gates of Rome, Gajendra is tempted to betray all he... Read more

Gai-Jin

By: James Clavell

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 50 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

The dynamic epic novel of political upheaval and societal change in late 1800s Japan, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author and unparalleled master of historical fiction, James ClavellThis epic novel by master writer James Clavell, loosely based on the Namamugi Incident and Anglo-Satsuma War that took place in the late 1800s, is a richly... Read more

The Duke of Dark Desires

By: Miranda Neville

Narrated by: Shaun Grindell

Length: 10 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Rebellious Julian Fortescue never expected to inherit a dukedom, nor to find himself guardian to three young half-sisters. Now in the market for a governess, he lays eyes on Jane Grey and knows immediately she is qualified—to become his mistress. Yet the alluring woman appears impervious to him.



Lady Jeanne de Falleron didn't seek a position as a... Read more

Highland Velvet

By: Jude Deveraux

Narrated by: Gabra Zackman

Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Jude Deveraux steps back to a time and place where revenge and rivalry rule men's hearts—and love conquers all—in this wonderful Montgomery novel.

Bronwyn MacArran was a proud Scot. Stephen Montgomery was one of the hated English.

He came to Scotland as a conqueror, saw her beauty and was vanquished. But still she would abhor him.
She owned a... Read more

The Silk Factory

By: Judith Allnatt

Narrated by: Antonia Beamish

Length: 12 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

A beautiful and eerie story of love and memory from the author of The Moon Field. Anyone who’s ever lost someone is haunted Rosie Milford inherits a house in an old silk factory after her mother’s death and moves there with her young children. The discovery of a shocking truth about her own childhood, when she is... Read more