Historical Fiction audiobooks

The Perfume Collector

By: Kathleen Tessaro

Narrated by: Heather Wilds

Length: 12 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

A remarkable novel about secrets, desire, memory, passion, and possibility.Newlywed Grace Monroe doesn’t fit anyone’s expectations of a successful 1950s London socialite, least of all her own. When she receives an unexpected inheritance from a complete stranger, Madame Eva d’Orsey, Grace is drawn to uncover the identity of her mysterious... Read more

Somerset

By: Leila Meacham

Narrated by: Teresa DeBerry

Length: 22 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

A headstrong woman goes against her wealthy family’s wishes in this stunning prequel to Roses, perfect for fans of Gone with the Wind.

Born into the most influential family in 1830s South Carolina, Jessica Wyndham is expected to look appealing, act with decorum, and marry well. However, her abolitionist opinions and unflagging sense of justice... Read more

Miss Dimple Picks a Peck of Trouble

By: Mignon F. Ballard

Narrated by: Pam Ward

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

It's the summer of 1944 and the world seems mired in a war that will never end. Even with a war on, the peaches are ripe for picking. As veteran teacher Miss Dimple Kilpatrick and her colleagues work in the orchard, they hear frantic calls for help. An eighteen-year-old girl, Prentice, has been missing - and is later found murdered. Miss Dimple... Read more

The Dragon’s Teeth

By: Ellery Queen

Narrated by: Fred Sullivan

Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Eccentric multimillionaire Cadmus Cole hires Ellery Queen to investigate a case but won't say what it is. When Cole dies mysteriously at sea, Queen and his partner, Beau Rummell, must navigate a thicket of complications that includes a fifty-million-dollar legacy, two beautiful but avaricious women vying for the inheritance, a will with some odd... Read more

Cold Steel

By: Kate Elliott

Narrated by: Charlotte Parry

Length: 25 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

The fantastic conclusion to the Spiritwalker trilogy! Trouble, treachery, and magic just won't stop plaguing Cat Barahal. The Master of the Wild Hunt has stolen her husband Andevai. The ruler of the Taino kingdom blames her for his mother's murder. The infamous General Camjiata insists she join his army to help defeat the cold mages who rule... Read more

Highland Warrior

By: Hannah Howell

Narrated by: Angela Dawe

Length: 9 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Fleeing an obsessed suitor, Fiona MacEnroy rides recklessly into Scotland's wildest hills and is captured by a horde of well-armed men. Instead of battling for her life, she finds herself swept away by a powerful stranger and carried off to a remote, forbidding keep. Oddly, here at Scarglas, a place shrouded in mystery and the black reputation... Read more

All the Days of Our Lives

By: Annie Murray

Narrated by: Penelope Freeman

Length: 15 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

It is 1946 in Birmingham: the Second World War is over and three young women face a new kind of life. But peacetime brings its own pressures . . .

Read by Penelope Freeman (Her Wartime Secret)

Katie O'Neill's childhood has been dominated by her temperamental mother and by frightening secrets that she barely understands. Innocent, yet hungry for... Read more

The Ghost of the Mary Celeste

By: Valerie Martin

Narrated by: Susie Berneis

Length: 11 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1872, the American merchant vessel Mary Celeste was discovered adrift off the coast of Spain. Her cargo was intact, but the crew was gone. They were never found. While on a voyage to Africa, an unproven young writer named Arthur Conan Doyle hears of the Mary Celeste and decides to write an outlandish story about what took place. This story... Read more

Breath of Yesterday

By: Emily Bold

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

This second volume in Emily Bold’s mystical series about Samantha Watts and Payton McLean, a cursed Scotsman from another era, takes readers on a thrilling journey across time. After winning the battle to break a centuries-old curse, Samantha and Payton thought nothing could stand in the way of their happiness. But all too soon they learn the... Read more

That Scandalous Summer

By: Meredith Duran

Narrated by: Alison Larkin

Length: 11 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

In the social whirl of Regency England, Elizabeth Chudderley is at the top of every guest list, the life of every party, and the belle of every ball. But her friends and admirers would be stunned to know the truth: that the merriest widow in London is also the loneliest. Behind the gaiety and smiles lies a secret longing—for something, or... Read more

Why Earls Fall in Love

By: Manda Collins

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Young widowed Georgina Mowbray is settling into her role as Lady Russell's companion quite well—until the lady's nephew Dominic, the Earl of Coniston, arrives in Bath for a visit. Georgie's always found him shallow and too smooth, and trusts him as much as she trusts most men . . . which is to say, not at all. But Con turns out to be more... Read more

An Officer and a Spy

By: Robert Harris

Narrated by: David Rintoul

Length: 16 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Robert Harris returns to the thrilling historical fiction he has so brilliantly made his own. This is the story of the infamous Dreyfus affair told as a chillingly dark, hard-edged novel of conspiracy and espionage.

Paris in 1895. Alfred Dreyfus, a young Jewish officer, has just been convicted of treason, sentenced to life imprisonment at... Read more

The Wife, the Maid, and the Mistress

By: Ariel Lawhon

Narrated by: Ann Marie Lee

Length: 12 hours

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of I Was Anastasia and The Frozen River comes a “genuinely surprising whodunit” (USA Today) that tantalizingly reimagines a scandalous murder mystery that rocked the nation.

One summer night in 1930, Judge Joseph Crater steps into a New York City cab and is never heard from again. Behind this great man... Read more

I Shall Be Near to You

By: Erin Lindsay McCabe

Narrated by: Allyson Ryan

Length: 10 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

An extraordinary novel about a strong-willed woman who disguises herself as a man in order to fight beside her husband, inspired by the letters of a remarkable female soldier who fought in the Civil War.

Rosetta doesn't want her new husband Jeremiah to enlist, but he joins up, hoping to make enough money that they'll be able to afford their own... Read more

Siege Perilous

By: E.D. deBirmingham

Narrated by: Angela Dawe

Length: 14 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Ocyrhoe, a young, cunning fugitive from Rome, safeguards a chalice of subtle but great power. Finding herself in France, she allies with the persecuted, pacifist Cathar sect in their legendary mountaintop stronghold, Montségur. There she resists agents of the Roman Church and its Inquisition, fights off escalating, bloody besiegement by troops... Read more

Clotel

By: William Wells Brown

Narrated by: J. D. Jackson

Length: 6 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

First published in 1853 amidst rumors that Thomas Jefferson fathered children with one of his slaves, Clotel is a fictional chronicle of one such child. After Jefferson's death, his mistress and her two daughters are auctioned. One daughter, Clotel, is purchased by a white man from Virginia who impregnates her. Despite the promise of marriage,... Read more

Her Dark Curiosity

By: Megan Shepherd

Narrated by: Lucy Rayner

Length: 12 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Inspired by The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, this tantalizing sequel to Megan Shepherd's gothic suspense novel The Madman's Daughter explores the hidden natures of those we love and how far we'll go to save them from themselves. Perfect for fans of Libba Bray. Back in London after her trip to Dr. Moreau's horrific island, Juliet is... Read more

Butterfly Palace

By: Colleen Coble

Narrated by: Devon O'Day

Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Elegance and wealth. Privilege and politics. The extravagance of the Butterfly Palace overwhelmed Lily’s senses and nearly smothered her painful memories. She pushed away her misgivings . . . She was perfectly safe in this huge house.Austin, Texas—1904: Abandoned by the love of her life and still mourning the loss of her mother, Lily Donaldson... Read more

Divided We Fall (Divided We Fall, Book 1)

By: Trent Reedy

Narrated by: Andrew Eiden

Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

The provocative, incendiary military thriller -- now in paperback!Danny Wright never thought he'd be the man to bring down the United States of America. In fact, he enlisted in the Idaho National Guard because he wanted to serve his country the way his father did. When the Guard is called up on the governor's orders to police a protest in Boise,... Read more

Dominion

By: C.J. Sansom

Narrated by: Daniel Weyman

Length: 20 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

C.J. Sansom rewrites history in a thrilling novel that dares to imagine Britain under the thumb of Nazi Germany.

1952. Twelve years have passed since Churchill lost to the appeasers and Britain surrendered to Nazi Germany. The global economy strains against the weight of the long German war against Russia still raging in the east. The British... Read more

Ripper

By: Isabel Allende

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini

Length: 14 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Isabel Allende—the New York Times bestselling author whose books, including Maya’s Notebook, Island Beneath the Sea, and Zorro, have sold more than 57 million copies around the world—demonstrates her remarkable literary versatility with Ripper, an atmospheric, fast-paced mystery involving a brilliant teenage sleuth who must unmask a serial... Read more

Romancing the Duke

By: Tessa Dare

Narrated by: Carmen Rose

Length: 9 hours

Abridged: No

As the daughter of a famed author, Isolde Ophelia Goodnight grew up on tales of brave knights and fair maidens. She never doubted romance would be in her future, too. The storybooks offered endless possibilities.And as she grew older, Izzy crossed them off. One by one by one.Ugly duckling turned swan?　Abducted by handsome highwayman?　Rescued... Read more

Stormy Montana Sky

By: Debra Holland

Narrated by: Natalie Ross

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Schoolteacher Harriet Stanton has always believed in happily ever after. Only, the one she thinks she wants forever with is newly married…just not to her. But when a mysterious stranger rescues Harriet from an accident, she discovers heroes can be found in the most unlikely places…Newspaper reporter Anthony “Ant” Gordon is a man on a mission.... Read more

An Escapade and an Engagement

By: Annie Burrows

Narrated by: Julia Franklin

Length: 8 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

A SEASON OF SCANDAL Richard, Lord Ledbury, has had his fair share of adventure on warring battlefields, but even this seasoned soldier isn't prepared for the outrageous escapades going on in London's ballrooms! Lady Jayne Chilcott is under orders to find a husband, and Lord Ledbury has caught her eye. But nothing is simple when courting under... Read more