Historical Fiction audiobooks

The Thicket

By: Joe R. Lansdale

Narrated by: Will Collyer

Length: 10 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Love and vengeance at the dark dawn of the East Texas oil boom from Joe Lansdale, "a true American original" (Joe Hill, author of Heart-Shaped Box).

Jack Parker thought he'd already seen his fair share of tragedy. His grandmother was killed in a farm accident when he was barely five years old. His parents have just succumbed to the smallpox... Read more

How to Tame Your Duke

By: Juliana Gray

Narrated by: Veida Dehmlow

Length: 12 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

England, 1888. Quiet and scholarly Princess Emilie has always avoided adventure, until she's forced to disguise herself as a tutor in the household of the imposing Duke of Ashland, a former soldier disfigured in battle and abandoned by his wife. When chance draws her into a secret liaison with the duke, Emilie can't resist the opportunity to... Read more

Mein Sohn - Franz Kafka

By: Christian Scholz

Narrated by: Zdenka Prochazkova

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Jeder Mensch trägt ein Zimmer in sich Read more

Hannibal: Fields of Blood

By: Ben Kane

Narrated by: Michael Praed

Length: 16 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

The fields of Cannae provide the setting for one of the bloodiest battles in history. But who will triumph? Hannibal and his warrior army, or the mighty legions of Rome.

By Ben Kane, the Sunday Times bestselling author of Hannibal: Enemy of Rome.

Hannibal's campaign to defeat Rome continues as he marches south to confront his enemy.
With him is a... Read more

Projection

By: Risa Green

Narrated by: Andi Arndt

Length: 8 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Three girls battle a dangerous secret society that will do anything to protect an ancient Greek power in this murder mystery for fans of Dan Brown.In ancient Rome it was whispered that the great philosopher Plotinus could project his soul into another human being in a ritual that hinged on a kiss.In present-day Delphi, California, the sole... Read more

The Drowning Guard

By: Linda Lafferty

Narrated by: Suzanne Cypress

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

A Colorado Book Award winner, Historical Fiction.Each morning in the hour before dawn, a silent boat launches on the Bosphorous, moving swiftly into the deepest part of the waters halfway between Europe and Asia, where a man will die…The Drowning Guard is the tale of the Ottoman princess, Esma Sultan—one of the most powerful women in Ottoman... Read more

The Maid's Version

By: Daniel Woodrell

Narrated by: Brian Troxell

Length: 4 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

The American master's first novel since Winter's Bone tells of a deadly dance hall fire and its impact over several generations.

Alma DeGeer Dunahew, the mother of three young boys, works as the maid for a prominent citizen and his family in West Table, Missouri. Her husband is mostly absent, and, in 1929, her scandalous, beloved younger sister... Read more

To Wed a Wicked Highlander

By: Victoria Roberts

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

In the third book of this fun, action-packed Highlands trilogy, Victoria Roberts introduces her baddest bad boy yet.Laird Alexander MacDonell has a choice: stay true to his duty or lose his heart forever to the woman who betrayed him—his own wife. Lady Sybella MacKenzie is forced to search for her clan's ancient seeing stone under the roof of... Read more

Shaman

By: Kim Stanley Robinson

Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm

Length: 15 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Kim Stanley Robinson, the New York Times bestselling author of science fiction masterworks such as the Mars trilogy and 2312, has, on many occasions, imagined our future. Now, in Shaman, he brings our past to life as never before.

There is Thorn, a shaman himself. He lives to pass down his wisdom and his stories -- to teach those who would follow... Read more

Desiring the Highlander

By: Michele Sinclair

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 12 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Seven McTiernay brothers, each a Highlander born to protect Scotland and her people, warriors known for their quick wits and quicker broadswords. The third brother, Cole, stared death in the face when he was only a boy . . .



Now Cole McTiernay is a man. And though he resists them in every way, he has responsibilities. The wild northern Highlands... Read more

The Deception

By: Catherine Coulter

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

The complete revamping of Catherine Coulter's 1983 Signet Regency, An Intimate Deception, led to this: a full-bodied historical romance with a new beginning and a new ending. Read more

Born of Persuasion

By: Jessica Dotta

Narrated by: Amanda McKnight

Length: 13 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

She never imagined securing her future would require delving into the past.

The year is 1838, and seventeen-year-old Julia Elliston’s position has never been more fragile. Orphaned and unmarried in a time when women are legal property of their fathers, husbands, and guardians, she finds herself at the mercy of an anonymous guardian who plans to... Read more

Blutsbrüder (Ungekürzte Fassung)

By: Ernst Haffner

Narrated by: Ben Becker

Length: 5 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Anfang der 1930er Jahre leben in Berlin und anderen deutschen Großstädten tausende Jugendliche auf der Straße. Sie verdingen sich als Tagelöhner und Laufburschen, häufig führt ihr Weg sie in die Kriminalität oder Prostitution. Zuflucht und soziale Wärme finden sie in selbstorganisierten Cliquen. In stillgelegten Fabrikbaracken trifft man sich,... Read more

Sweet Masquerade

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Lindy Nettleton

Length: 5 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

The tenth Earl of Berham does not know what to do. An attractive thirty-two-year-old bachelor, he has been appointed guardian of the young Freddie Armstrong, the eighteen-year-old grandson of his late father's dear friend. That's bad enough. Then he discovers that the boy is really a girl! It is against all convention and against his personal... Read more

The Creed of Violence

By: Boston Teran

Narrated by: Armando Durán

Length: 6 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Mexico, 1910. The landscape pulses with the force of the upcoming revolution, an atmosphere rich in opportunity for a criminal such as Rawbone. His fortune arrives across the haze of the Sierra Blanca in the form of a truck loaded with weapons.But Rawbone's plan spins against him, and he soon finds himself at the Mexican-American border and in... Read more

The Mortal Immortal

By: Mary Shelley

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 37 minutes

Abridged: No

When the philosopher's apprentice unwittingly swallows his elixir of life, he faces a future of eternal youth and immortality. Initially this feels like a wonderful blessing... but as time goes on and his beloved wife ages before his youthful eyes and spirals into jealousy and resentment of his permanent youthful appearance, the gift begins to... Read more

Taming the Wild Highlander

By: Terry Spear

Narrated by: Borah Coburn

Length: 6 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Edana Chattan senses concerns where people she knows could be in danger. When her brothers warn her they're in trouble, she can't convince her father to listen to her, so with an escort, she tries to locate them. Separated from her escort during a storm, she is discovered by Angus MacNeill, who is tasked to return her home. Only Edana has other... Read more

Always in my Heart

By: Ellie Dean

Narrated by: Julie Maisey

Length: 11 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

As the Japanese begin their assault on Singapore, Sarah Fuller is forced to leave her parents and fiancé, Philip, behind. The long journey to England is fraught with danger, and Sarah and her sister Jane don’t even know if their great-aunt is alive, let alone waiting for them.

They arrive in Cliffehaven, on the south coast of England, and here... Read more

Lady Caroline and the Egotistical Earl

By: Terry Spear

Narrated by: Maria Hunter Welles

Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Lady Caroline has one mission in mind, helping her mother maintain their estates after her father's death, while knights posing as the earl's men continue to kill their livestock. But as soon as her mother wishes the earl's intervention, Caroline has a new problem - the earl is intrigued with her and wants her to reside at his castle and serve... Read more

A Rake's Midnight Kiss

By: Anna Campbell

Narrated by: Antony Ferguson

Length: 11 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Brilliant scholar Genevieve Barrett's secret identity as the author of her father's articles is her greatest deception—until her father's handsome new student arrives on their doorstep. Genevieve recognizes him as the masked intruder who earlier tried to steal a priceless gem from their home. Keeping the seductive stranger's identity hidden is a... Read more

Black Spring

By: Alison Croggon

Narrated by: Kim Hicks

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Inspired by the gothic classic Wuthering Heights, this stunning new fantasy from the author of the Books of Pellinor is a fiercely romantic tale of betrayal and vengeance.In a savage land sustained by wizardry and ruled by vendetta, Lina is the enchanting but willful daughter of a village lord. She and her childhood companion, Damek, have grown... Read more

Hearts of Iron

By: Scott James Magner

Narrated by: Luke Daniels

Length: 3 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

SideQuests are stand-alone stories or novellas that chronicle the heroes, villains, and adventures in The Foreworld Saga across numerous eras and ages. They can be read in any order with or without prior knowledge of The Foreworld Saga.When The Italian Job meets the Knights of the Round Table, the ultimate medieval heist caper is born.It is the... Read more

The Arrangement

By: Mary Balogh

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 11 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

A mesmerizing story of passionate awakening and redemption, Mary Balogh’s new novel unites a war hero consigned to darkness with a remarkable woman who finds her own salvation by showing him the light of love.

Desperate to escape his mother’s matchmaking, Vincent Hunt, Viscount Darleigh, flees to a remote country village. But even there, another... Read more

Scandalous Liaisons

By: Sylvia Day

Narrated by: Heather Wilds

Length: 11 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Dear Listener,In 2004, I was chosen as the Readers’ Choice winner of the Lori Foster Brava Novella Contest with my entry, “Stolen Pleasures,” which you’ll find inside this audiobook. Kensington published the winning entry in what became my debut release, Bad Boys Ahoy!Since then, Kensington and I have released eight other novels (and another... Read more