Historical Fiction audiobooks

Smuggler's Moon

By: Cynthia Wright

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 10 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

A marriage begun in deception...Julia Faircloth is used to managing the lives of her eccentric relatives, so when darkly compelling Lord Sebastian Trevarre arrives in Bath and proposes to her shy sister Sarah, she switches places with the bride to save her from what she imagines will be a shockingly carnal wedding night.Against his better... Read more

Prisoner of Night and Fog

By: Anne Blankman

Narrated by: Heather Wilds

Length: 10 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

A gripping historical thriller set in 1930s Munich, Prisoner of Night and Fog is the evocative story of an ordinary girl faced with an extraordinary choice in Hitler's Germany. Fans of Code Name Verity will love this novel full of romance, danger, and intrigue!Gretchen Müller grew up in the National Socialist Party under the wing of her uncle... Read more

Bridge to Haven

By: Francine Rivers

Narrated by: Kate Forbes

Length: 17 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

To those who matter in 1950s Hollywood, Lena Scott is the hottest rising star to hit the silver screen since Marilyn Monroe. Few know her real name is Abra. Even fewer know the price she' s paid to finally feel like she' s somebody. To Pastor Ezekiel Freeman, Abra will always be the little girl who stole his heart the night he found her, a... Read more

The Inventor's Secret

By: Andrea Cremer

Narrated by: Leslie Bellair

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

In this world, sixteen-year-old Charlotte and her fellow refugees have scraped out an existence on the edge of Britain's industrial empire. Though they live by the skin of their teeth, they have their health and each other. When a new exile with no memory of his escape or even his own name seeks shelter in their camp, he brings new dangers with... Read more

The Inventor's Secret

By: Andrea Cremer

Narrated by: Leslie Bellair

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

New from Andrea Cremer, the New York Times bestselling author of the Nightshade novels, comes an action-packed alternate-history steampunk adventure.

In this world, sixteen-year-old Charlotte and her fellow refugees have scraped out an existence on the edge of Britain’s industrial empire. Though they live by the skin of their teeth, they have... Read more

Duke Most Wanted

By: Celeste Bradley

Narrated by: Susan Ericksen

Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Sophie Blake's grandfather willed his fortune to the first of his granddaughters to marry a duke. Since her cousin, Deirdre, will seal the deal any day now, the quiet, bookish Sophie can sit back and enjoy her time with the only man she truly adores: Graham. No matter that the part charmer, part scoundrel has absolutely no designs on her!... Read more

The First Rebellion

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Vanessa Benjamin

Length: 5 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

His kiss left her flushed and disconcerted—perhaps men were best avoided after all …The Earl of Tredair has had his fill of balls, routs, and silly misses, and he despairs of finding someone extraordinary—that is, until he meets Miss Fanny Waverley.Most unique and intriguing, Fanny and her two sisters are the adopted daughters of the reclusive... Read more

Tilly

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Charlotte Anne Dore

Length: 5 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

The Beast—that was what they called her. With her plump body and rough tomboy ways, she felt more like a clown. It was hopeless. Poor penniless Tilly could only sit among the chaperons as a paid companion to the spiteful Lady Aileen. The best she could do was sit … and dream. But suddenly Philip, Marquess of Heppleford, the most eligible... Read more

The Romance

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Charlotte Anne Dore

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Torn between her ancestral home and her heart, Belinda Beverley must make a difficult choice.As one of the two remaining unmarried Beverley sisters, Belinda considers herself the last hope for Mannerling, the beloved estate gambled away by their father. Each of her four elder sisters had hoped—even schemed—to marry one of Mannerling's successive... Read more

A Lasting Love Affair

By: P. O. Dixon

Narrated by: Pearl Hewitt

Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

"When a man meets the woman with whom he is destined to share his life, he knows."Mr. Darcy was not looking to fall in love. He thought he had it all: wealth, privilege, and ardent passion for his sport. That is until he meets Miss Elizabeth Bennet, and he soon surrenders his heart.Having suffered a traumatic loss, Elizabeth knows the pain of... Read more

Pretty Polly

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Mia Chiaromonte

Length: 5 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Blessed with beauty, Mrs. Manners never bothered with the lesser skills of grammar and spelling. So, in order to entrap a second husband, namely the dashing Duke of Denbigh, she needed Miss Verity Bascombe. Surely the modest chit would be honored to write her love letters.Poor Verity! Her old schoolmate was as selfish as ever. But the lovely... Read more

The Paper Princess

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Length: 4 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

London was all on edge and astir to have in its midst the exquisite Princess Felicity of Brasnia. What scandal would ensue should society discover that the bejeweled heir to a royal throne was in truth Miss Felicity Channing of Cornwall, fleeing a match she did not want and that had been arranged by her conniving stepfather!It was questionable... Read more

The Desirable Duchess

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Length: 4 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Lovely Alice Lacey was a true incomparable, and her marriage to the Duke of Ferrant was the event of the season. Almost no one realized, however, that Alice was secretly in love with someone else—or that she had confided her feelings to a clever talking mynah bird who announces these intimacies at the moment of the couple's wedding.Now the... Read more

The Steady Running of the Hour

By: Justin Go

Narrated by: Steve West

Length: 16 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

An impossible quest. An epic love story. A mesmerizing debut.

In 1924, the English mountaineer Ashley Walsingham dies attempting to summit Mount Everest, leaving his fortune to his long-lost lover, Imogen Soames-Andersson—whom he has not seen in seven years. Ashley’s attorneys search in vain for Imogen, but the estate remains unclaimed.

Nearly... Read more

Take This Cup

By: Bodie Thoene

Narrated by: Tom O'Malley

Length: 11 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Based on Scripture and resonating with historical detail comes a beautiful, fully imagined story of a young child and his role in the Last Supper of Jesus Christ.When Nehemiah, the child of Jewish exiles, begins hearing whispers and experiencing portentous visions, it quickly becomes clear to his father and his rabbi that the young cupbearer is... Read more

Fair Valley Refuge

By: Lynnette Bonner

Narrated by: Anne Johnstonbrown

Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

She's loved him for as long as she can remember. But can she trust her heart to a man haunted by constant danger?Shiloh, Oregon, April 1887Victoria Snyder, adopted when she was only days old, pastes on a smile for her mama's wedding day, but inside she's all atremble. Lawman Rocky Jordan is back home. And this time he's got a bullet hole in his... Read more

Five Dead Canaries - The Home Front Detective Series, book 3 (Unabridged)

By: Edward Marston

Narrated by: Gordon Griffin

Length: 10 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

1916. As thousands of Brits are fighting on the Front Line, a new breed of women emerges to hold the Home Front together. Fiercely independent and fiery-spirited, the munitionettes, or 'canaries', are easily recognisable with their chemically-stained yellow faces. Among the raucous group of women is Florrie Duncan, who plans to celebrate her... Read more

Ralph Compton The Ghost of Apache Creek

By: Ralph Compton & Joseph A. West

Narrated by: James Jenner

Length: 5 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

The only folk left behind in Apache Creek are ghosts, including Marshall Sam Pace. Three years of solitude have turned Sam into a phantom, but when a woman on the run stumbles into town, the former lawman must protect her and make use of gunslinger skills long out of practice... Read more

The She Wolf

By: Maurice Druon

Narrated by: Peter Joyce

Length: 13 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

“This is the original Game of Thrones.” George R.R. Martin. Charles IV is now king of France and his sister is Edward II of England’s Queen. Having been imprisoned by Edward as leader of the rebellious English barons, Roger Mortimer escapes to France, where he joins the war against the English Aquitaine. But it is his love... Read more

The True Story of Hansel and Gretel

By: Louise Murphy

Narrated by: Michael Page

Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

In the last months of the Nazi occupation of Poland, two children are left by their father and stepmother to find safety in a dense forest. Because their real names will reveal their Jewishness, they are renamed "Hansel" and "Gretel". They wander in the woods until they are taken in by Magda, an eccentric and stubborn old woman called "witch" by... Read more

Highland Barbarian

By: Hannah Howell

Narrated by: Angela Dawe

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Sir Artan Murray was right when he decided that the dying old man who bid him collect his niece didn't know her at all. The furious woman facing him is neither "sweet" nor "biddable." She demands the brawny Highlander return her to the wedding party from which he took her. But Artan has no intention of allowing so spirited and bewitching a... Read more

The Sherlockian

By: Graham Moore

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

In December 1893, Sherlock Holmes-adoring Londoners eagerly opened their Strand magazines, anticipating the detective's next adventure, only to find the unthinkable: his creator, Arthur Conan Doyle, had killed their hero off. London spiraled into mourning -- crowds sported black armbands in grief -- and railed against Conan Doyle as his assassin.... Read more

Murder as a Fine Art

By: David Morrell

Narrated by: Matthew Wolf

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

ALA Reading List Award for Best Mystery

GASLIT LONDON IS BROUGHT TO ITS KNEES IN DAVID MORRELL'S BRILLIANT HISTORICAL THRILLER.

Thomas De Quincey, infamous for his memoir Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, is the major suspect in a series of ferocious mass murders identical to ones that terrorized London forty-three years earlier.

The... Read more

The Shadow Queen

By: Sandra Gulland

Narrated by: Meredith Mitchell

Length: 10 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

1660, Paris.Claudette’s life is like an ever-revolving stage set. From an impoverished childhood wandering the French countryside with her family’s acting troupe, Claudette finally witnesses her mother’s astonishing rise to stardom in Parisian theaters. Working with playwrights Corneille, Molière and Racine, Claudette’s life is culturally rich,... Read more