Historical Fiction audiobooks
Mystique
By: Amanda Quick
Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat
Length: 12 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
This spectacular romantic novel unveils a tantalizing tale of a legendary knight, a headstrong lady, and a quest for an ancient crystal. To find the mystical Stone of Scarcliffe, Sir Hugh needs the assistance of Lady Alice of Lingwood, a flame-haired beauty with a dazzling intellect. Together, Hugh and Alice begin a dangerous adventure that... Read more
View audiobookMorgarten
By: J. K. Swift
Narrated by: Brad Wills
Length: 8 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
This action-packed conclusion to The Forest Knights series picks up where ALTDORF left off.A small force of peasants from the forest regions surrounding Lake Lucerne, rise up against their Austrian overlords in the 14th century. Outnumbered seven-to-one by the battle-hardened Habsburg army, they have little hope.Young Noll Melchthal has managed... Read more
View audiobookSlightly Shady
By: Amanda Quick
Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat
Length: 9 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
Amanda Quick, best-selling author of Regency-era romances, has won many awards for her works including the New York Times best-selling Wicked Widow. Each work transports fans into a richly detailed world of intrigue and desire. There are now over 25 million copies of her books in print. Besieged by gambling debts, a desperate gentleman purchases... Read more
View audiobookReturn to Me
By: Lynn Austin
Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
Length: 15 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Bestselling Author Lynn Austin Launches New Biblical Saga After years of watching his children and grandchildren wander from their faith, Iddo's prayers are answered: King Cyrus is allowing God's chosen people to return to Jerusalem. Jubilant, he joyfully prepares for their departure, only to learn that his family, grown comfortable in the pagan... Read more
View audiobookWhen the Dawn Breaks
By: Emma Fraser
Narrated by: Jane MacFarlane
Length: 14 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Two women. One secret. A heart-breaking choice.
Skye, 1903. Jessie, the young daughter of a local midwife, is determined to become a nurse one day, but family loss and heartache jeopardise her dreams. Isabel, the doctor's daughter, is planning to follow in her father's footsteps - even though medicine is not considered a fitting career for a... Read more
Sensual Danger (Venice Vampyr #4)
By: Tina Folsom
Narrated by: Eric G. Dove
Length: 3 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Venice, Italy - early 1800sWhen vampire Nico purchases a house to further his fellow vampires' goal of creating a secure compound within Venice, he doesn't expect to get a headstrong wife in the bargain. He plans to send her to the mainland after their wedding night so he can continue his debauched bachelor life.But when he meets the... Read more
View audiobookBurning Paradise
By: Robert Charles Wilson
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 11 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
From Robert Charles Wilson, the author of the Hugo-winning Spin, comes Burning Paradise, a new tale of humans coming to grips with a universe of implacable strangeness.
Cassie Klyne, nineteen years old, lives in the United States in the year 2015—but it's not our United States, and it's not our 2015.
Cassie's world has been at peace since the... Read more
Havisham
By: Ronald Frame
Narrated by: Sophie Ward
Length: 10 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
HAVISHAM IS THE ASTONISHING PRELUDE TO CHARLES DICKENS'S GREAT EXPECTATIONS.
Before she became the immortal and haunting Miss Havisham of Great Expectations, she was Catherine, a young woman with all of her dreams ahead of her. Spry, imperious, she is the daughter of a wealthy brewer. But she is never far from the smell of hops and the arresting... Read more
Promise Me Texas
By: Jodi Thomas
Narrated by: Linda Stephens
Length: 10 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
On a midnight train, four hours away from her wedding, Beth McMurray discovers the devastating truth about the powerful senator she's about to marry. Convinced nothing could make this stormy night worse, the train wrecks, and she tumbles straight into the arms of an outlaw. Andrew McLaughlin doesn't believe in loving except between the pages of... Read more
View audiobookJeeves and the Wedding Bells
By: Sebastian Faulks
Narrated by: Julian Rhind-Tutt
Length: 6 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
Bertie Wooster (a young man about town) and his butler Jeeves (the very model of the modern manservant)—return in their first new novel in nearly forty years: Jeeves and the Wedding Bells by Sebastian Faulks.
P.G. Wodehouse documented the lives of the inimitable Jeeves and Wooster for nearly sixty years, from their first appearance in 1915... Read more
The Valley of Amazement
By: Amy Tan
Narrated by: Nancy Wu, Joyce Bean & Amy Tan
Length: 24 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club Amy Tan brings us her latest novel: a sweeping, evocative epic of two women’s intertwined fates and their search for identity—from the lavish parlors of Shanghai courtesans to the fog-shrouded mountains of a remote Chinese villageShanghai, 1912. Violet Minturn is the privileged daughter of... Read more
View audiobookA Dance of Blades
By: David Dalglish
Narrated by: Elijah Alexander
Length: 12 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
From USA Today bestselling author David Dalglish
It's been five long years since the city learned to fear. . .
In book #2 of the Shadowdance series, the war between the thief guilds and the powerful allegiance known as the Trifect has slowly dwindled. Now only the mysterious Haern is left to wage his private battle against the guilds in the guise... Read more
Bellman & Black
By: Diane Setterfield
Narrated by: Jack Davenport
Length: 9 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 New York Times bestselling author
“An astonishing work of genius.” —Bookreporter
“Magically transformative.” —Bookpage
Can one moment in time haunt you forever?
From the instant #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Thirteenth Tale comes a “poetic and mysterious” (Booklist) story that will haunt you to your very core.
Caught up in a... Read more
The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion
By: Fannie Flagg
Narrated by: Fannie Flagg
Length: 10 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The one and only Fannie Flagg, beloved author of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, Can’t Wait to Get to Heaven, and I Still Dream About You, is at her hilarious and superb best in this new comic mystery novel about two women who are forced to reimagine who they are.
Mrs. Sookie Poole of Point Clear,... Read more
Triptych
By: Margit Liesche
Narrated by: Terri McMahon
Length: 12 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
Budapest, 1956. In the darkest year of Hungary's modern history, a national uprising against Soviet occupiers and their reign of terror is underway. Eleven-year-old Évike and her firebrand mother steal deep into battle zones in support of civilian freedom fighters, armed only with primitive weapons and desperate courage against the heavy... Read more
View audiobookThe Nero Decree
By: Gregory Lee
Narrated by: Dick Hill
Length: 14 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
As the Nazis come to power in Germany, a violent argument over a secret key causes young Johann to lose the only parent he has left. Worse, it is his half-brother, Dieter, who commits this horrific act of betrayal. Although their fragile family bonds are irrevocably destroyed, the brothers’ paths are destined to cross again.Years later, Hitler’s... Read more
View audiobookThe Major and the Pickpocket
By: Lucy Ashford
Narrated by: Julie Teal
Length: 9 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
"Trying to escape, were you?" Tassie bit her lip. Why hadn't he turned her over to the constables? She certainly wasn't going to try to run past him, even if he did have a limp. She was tall, but this man towered over her-- six feet of hardened muscle, shoulders forbiddingly broad beneath his riding coat, strong booted legs set firmly apart.... Read more
View audiobookSnowflakes in a Clear Night Sky
By: Jamie Sutliff
Narrated by: Jamie Sutliff
Length: 11 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
This short-story collection contains ten tales based on a diverse range of subjects, from true crime to historical fiction and fantasy. The title story, "Snowflakes in a Clear Night Sky," is based on Native American folklore. "A Dark Quiet Place" is based on a true-crime incident involving a troubled boy and gun violence. In "Adirondak Mountains... Read more
View audiobookThe Deception
By: M. C. Beaton
Narrated by: Charlotte Anne Dore
Length: 6 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
It was an unfair decision—to be forced to choose between her home and her heart …When one of her sisters is attacked by Harry Devers, the lecherous son of Mannerling's present owner, Abigail Beverley puts her obsession with reclaiming the mansion on hold. It is then that Abigail meets the dashing and extremely eligible Lord Burfield, fresh back... Read more
View audiobookThe Folly
By: M. C. Beaton
Narrated by: Charlotte Anne Dore
Length: 5 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
In the fourth installment of the Daughters of Mannerling series, beautiful Rachel must choose which she wants more—true love or Mannerling mansion.The haughty Beverley family is obsessed with regaining Mannerling, the exquisite seventeenth-century mansion gambled away by their now-deceased father, Sir Beverley. Three of the six Beverley... Read more
View audiobookThe Nine Giants - Nicholas Bracewell - The Dramatic Elizabethan Whodunnit, book 4 (Unabridged)
By: Edward Marston
Narrated by: Andrew Wincott
Length: 7 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
The fiery star of the company of players called Lord Westfield's Men, Laurence Firethorn, is hot for a lady, wife of the Lord Mayor elect. A tryst at London's Nine Giants Inn is arranged. Meanwhile, the lugubrious landlord of the actors' home base is laid even lower by a plot to take over ownership of the inn. A young apprentice actor is... Read more
View audiobookIron Ties
By: Ann Parker
Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
Length: 12 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
"The great questions of the time are not decided by speeches and majority decisions…but by iron and blood."—Otto von Bismarck, 1862Summer 1880. The railroad is coming west, all the way to Leadville, Colorado, and its rich Rocky Mountain mines—and millionaires. Coming to celebrate the arrival of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad is a former... Read more
View audiobookThe Offer
By: Catherine Coulter
Narrated by: Anne Flosnik
Length: 9 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Dear Reader:Phillip Mercerault and Sabrina Eversleigh first appeared in An Honorable Offer, a Regency romance published in 1981. I changed the title to The Offer to reflect its new status as a historical romance after I rewrote the novel extensively (in 1997). The result is a complex, fascinating story with thrilling plot twists and richer... Read more
View audiobookFinal Affair (Venice Vampyr #2)
By: Tina Folsom
Narrated by: Eric G. Dove
Length: 2 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
Venice, Italy - early 1800sViola has been given three months to live but she refuses to die a virgin. She travels to Venice where she wants to experience physical pleasure with a man without causing a scandal for her family. Afterward, she plans to take her own life to ensure she exits the world painlessly and with dignity. Unfortunately, the... Read more
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