Historical Fiction audiobooks

Beyond the Great Snow Mountains - Abridged

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Terrence Mann

Length: 5 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the American West to the Siberian coast, from Hollywood to the boxing ring, here are timeless tales of war, mystery, romance, crime, and punishment as only Louis L'Amour can tell them.

These stories are vintage L'Amour:
• A hard-bitten cattle driver is pitted against a man trying to steal his woman, the disappearance of a thousand head of... Read more

The Highlander's Sin

By: Eliza Knight

Narrated by: Corrie James

Length: 9 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

They called him The Priest. Maybe because of his billowing black robes and the steel crucifix that hung around his neck. Or perhaps it was because those who met him were compelled to pray. But Duncan Mackay was anything but a saint. He was a sinner—a paid mercenary. Until he met her and she made him want to change his ways.



Lady Heather... Read more

No Place for a Dame

By: Connie Brockway

Narrated by: Alison Larkin

Length: 10 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Beautiful, bold, and brilliant Avery dreams of becoming a member of the Royal Astronomical Society—and the only way she can join the all-male society is to disguise herself as a boy. After helping Giles, Lord Strand, escape a disastrous engagement, she is certain he will assist in her daring masquerade. No lady would ever come up with such a... Read more

The Sixteen Pleasures

By: Robert Hellenga

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 12 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

I was twenty-nine years old when the Arno flooded its banks on Friday, 4 November 1966. On Tuesday I decided to go to Italy, to offer my services as a humble book conservator, to save whatever could be saved, including myself.The Italians called them "Mud Angels," the young foreigners who came to Florence in 1966 to save the city's treasured art... Read more

Sarah Morris Remembers

By: D.E. Stevenson

Narrated by: Patience Tomlinson

Length: 10 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

With the help of her old diaries, Sarah Morris recounts her life story. The daughter of an English vicar, she begins by telling of her happy childhood with her brothers and sister in their country village. As a teenager, Sarah's brother brings home a friend – Charles, a charming Austrian to whom she quickly becomes close. Over the years they... Read more

Rogue's Lady

By: Robyn Carr

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Born to a respected family, seventeen-year-old English beauty Vieve Donnelle always gets what she wants. But when word arrives that her father’s estate isn’t as wealthy as it appears, the noble heiress must rethink her betrothal to an impoverished aristocrat.Enter Captain Tyson Gervais, an infuriating colonial sea captain traveling to England... Read more

The Faraway Drums

By: Jon Cleary

Narrated by: Michael Healy

Length: 10 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1911 in Delhi, King George V is on the brink of being crowned emperor of India. While on duty near Simla, a handsome British intelligence officer, Clive Farnol, finds a plot to assassinate His Majesty. Meanwhile, a young Bostonian reporter, Bridie O'Brady, is in town to write about the coronation. In this exotic tale of romance and intrigue,... Read more

City of Fading Light

By: Jon Cleary

Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel

Length: 12 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

The time is the last two weeks of peace in the summer of 1939. The place is Berlin, the most brilliantly lit city in Europe. Cathleen O'Dea has come from Hollywood to Germany to star in a film. But that is not the real purpose of her visit. She is in Berlin to trace her missing mother. As Europe plunges towards war, we become enthrallingly... Read more

Miss Davenport’s Christmas

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Lindy Nettleton

Length: 5 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

When a Puritan miss discovers the joys of Christmas, love's as near as the mistletoe.The Davenport sisters were alone, without even a dour-faced maid to supervise their strict puritanical devotions, until the elder, flame-haired Gillian boldly decided it was high time they let their hair down. Now, with the help of a kindly relation, the two... Read more

For the Roses

By: Julie Garwood

Narrated by: Mikael Naramore

Length: 22 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Julie Garwood’s bestselling novels of the beloved Clayborne family began with this critically acclaimed masterpiece.…The Clayborne brothers were a rough gang of street urchins—until they found an abandoned baby girl in a New York City alley, named her Mary Rose, and headed to Blue Belle, Montana, to raise her to be a lady. They became a... Read more

The Untamed Mackenzie

By: Jennifer Ashley

Narrated by: Angela Dawe

Length: 6 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

To redeem her family's disgraced name, Lady Louisa Scranton has decided to acquire a proper husband. He needs to be a man of fortune and highly respectable in order to restore both her family's lost wealth and reputation. She enters the Marriage Mart with all flags flying, determined to find the right bachelor.



But Louisa's hopes are dashed when... Read more

The Saint

By: Monica McCarty

Narrated by: Antony Ferguson

Length: 12 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Magnus MacKay is the ultimate Highlander: tough, proud, able to master any terrain and to best his enemies. Called "the Saint" for his refusal to discuss women, as well as for his cool and steady leadership, Magnus hides a painful truth. It isn't virtue or piety that keeps him silent, but a wound of love and loss that cuts so deep he cannot bear... Read more

To Make a Match

By: Liana LeFey

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

The spirited Lady Victoria Lennox longs for a husband, but she cannot wed until her prickly older sister, Amelia, becomes a wife—and Amelia seems intent on driving away all potential suitors. To avoid becoming a spinster, Victoria concocts a plan: a carefully arranged scandal will compel Amelia to marry. And to bait the trap, who better than the... Read more

A Laird for Christmas

By: Gerri Russell

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

After her father and brother disappeared, Lady Jane Lennox is managing Bellhaven Castle. Nonetheless, her aunt has invited six suitors to compete for the right to her hand—and to protect Bellhaven’s towers of cool pink-gray stone.Among the six is Nicholas Kincaid, the one-time object of Jane’s affection. Two years ago, her brother banished... Read more

The Devil Wears Kilts

By: Suzanne Enoch

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

On a mission to rescue his runaway sister from the lure of flowery compliments and a useless lot of satin-clad scalawags disguised by their snooty titles, Ranulf MacLawry, Marquis of Glengask, has roared into British society like a storm across the Highlands. But he's about to find out that satin has its appeal, especially when it covers the... Read more

Knight of Pleasure

By: Margaret Mallory

Narrated by: Derek Perkins

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Lady Isobel Hume is an expert swordswoman who knows how to choose her battles. When the king asks her to wed a French nobleman to form a political alliance, she agrees. But that's before the devilishly charming Sir Stephen Carleton captures her heart—and tempts her to betray her betrothed, her king, and her country.



Sir Stephen Carleton enjoys... Read more

An Old Betrayal

By: Charles Finch

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 8 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

On a spring morning in London, 1875, Charles Lenox agrees to take time away from his busy schedule as a Member of Parliament to meet an old protege's client at Charing Cross. But when their cryptic encounter seems to lead, days later, to the murder of an innocuous country squire, this fast favor draws Lenox inexorably back into his old... Read more

An Introduction to Pleasure

By: Jess Michaels

Narrated by: Carmen Rose

Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Lysandra Keates is running out of options. Her father is dead, her mother is ill, and her efforts to find respectable employment have ended in failure. With her small savings bleeding away, she swallows her pride—and her terror—and turns to Vivien Manning, an infamous courtesan, to match her with a wealthy protector.



For years, Viscount Andrew... Read more

47 Ronin

By: John Allyn, Jr. & Stephen Turnbull

Narrated by: David Shih

Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1701 young Lord Asano is goaded into attacking a corrupt official at the Japanese Court. Although the wound Asano inflicts is minimal, the Emperor’s punishment is harsh: Lord Asano is ordered to commit seppuku, or ritual suicide. His lands are confiscated and his family is dishonored and exiled. His samurai retainers now become ronin, or... Read more

The Call of the Wild

By: Jack London

Narrated by: Matthew Steward

Length: 3 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Commonly considered to be Jack London's tour de force, The Call of the Wild tells the story of Buck, a domesticated dog ripped from a comfortable life when he is stolen from his home on a California ranch. Sold to a pair of men in Canada, Buck is trained as a sled dog in cold wilderness of the Klondike region. However, Buck's ordeal has only... Read more

White Fang

By: Jack London

Narrated by: Matthew Steward

Length: 7 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Five wolf pups are born, but only one survives. The lone pup and its mother must fend for themselves when the pup's father is killed by a lynx. Later, the pair is discovered by Native Americans. Grey Beaver, who recognizes the she-wolf as his late brother's wolfdog, adopts the pup and names him 'White Fang.' Targeted by the other pups in the... Read more

Noble Intentions

By: Katie MacAlister

Narrated by: Alison Larkin

Length: 11 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Noble Britton suffered greatly at the hands of his first wife, and he refuses to fall into the same trap again. This time he intends to marry a quiet, biddable woman who will not draw attention to herself or cause scandal. Gillian Leigh's honest manner and spontaneous laughter attract him immediately. It matters little that she is... Read more

The Maharajah's General

By: Paul Fraser Collard

Narrated by: Dudley Hinton

Length: 12 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Maharajah's General by Paul Fraser Collard Jack Lark returns to the battlefield under a new name to face greater adventures in a brutal land. A must-read for fans of Bernard Cornwell and Simon Scarrow. 'Collard ... evokes the horror of that era with great brio. Enthralling' The Times

Jack Lark barely survived the Battle of the Alma. As the... Read more

The Christmas Angel

By: Jane Maas

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 3 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

A charming, heartwarming Christmas tale about the power of family, tradition, and love — sure to delight fans of Debbie Macomber and Richard Paul Evans.In 1875, Owen Thomas, a poor Welsh coal miner, falls in love with a beautiful London actress, Jessica Lavery. He builds her a cottage in his village and enchants her with the promise of the... Read more