Historical Fiction audiobooks

The Uninvited Guests

By: Sadie Jones

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A grand old manor house deep in the English countryside will open its doors to reveal the story of an unexpectedly dramatic day in the life of one eccentric, rather dysfunctional, and entirely unforgettable family. Set in the early years of the twentieth century, award-winning author Sadie Jones’s The Uninvited Guests is, in the words of... Read more

Live by Night

By: Dennis Lehane

Narrated by: Jim Frangione

Length: 14 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane comes this epic, unflinching tale of the making and unmaking of a gangster in the Prohibition Era of the Roaring Twenties—now a Warner Bros. movie starring Ben Affleck, Elle Fanning, Zoe Saldana, and Sienna Miller.Meticulously researched and artfully told, Live by Night is the riveting story... Read more

Toby’s Room

By: Pat Barker

Narrated by: Nicola Barber

Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

It is 1917 and Elinor Brooke, a young painter, is studying art in London while her beloved brother Toby serves on the front as a medical officer. When Toby goes missing and is presumed dead, the devastated Elinor refuses to accept it. A letter she finds hidden among his belongings reveals that Toby knew he wasn’t coming back and implies that his... Read more

The Californios

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Erik Singer

Length: 5 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Captain Sean Mulkerin comes home from the sea to find his family home in jeopardy. After the death of his father, Sean’s determined mother, Eileen, took it upon herself to run the sprawling Rancho Malibu—until a fire destroyed her hard-earned profits. Now, on the edge of financial ruin, Eileen hopes Sean can help them find a way out. The rumor... Read more

The Riders of High Rock

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Robert Petkoff

Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Hopalong Cassidy rode into cattle country just east of the California line looking for his old friend Red Connors. He found Red holed up in a mountain cave with a bullet in his side and a story to tell. The ranchers around Tascotal had been losing their stock, and when Red caught the rustlers in the act, they hunted him down, shot him, and left... Read more

Deborah Goes to Dover

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Helen Lisanti

Length: 5 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

A dead employer’s legacy of five thousand pounds has allowed spinster Hannah Pym to resign from housekeeping and enjoy traveling the English countryside by coach. But adventure soon finds Miss Pym in the form of runaway brides, spirited heiresses, and international refugees, who continue to test her expert matchmaking skills.Destined for Dover,... Read more

Yvonne Goes to York

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Helen Lisanti

Length: 5 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A dead employer’s legacy of five thousand pounds has allowed spinster Hannah Pym to resign from housekeeping and enjoy traveling the English countryside by coach. But adventure soon finds Miss Pym in the form of runaway brides, spirited heiresses, and international refugees, who continue to test her expert matchmaking skills.The shy Miss Yvonne... Read more

A Love Surrendered

By: Julie Lessman

Narrated by: Tara Sands

Length: 15 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Orphaned in Iowa, Annie Kennedy has moved to Boston and is embracing the city life, with a new name and a wide-open future. When she gets involved with a fast crowd at Ocean Pier — one that includes the handsome Steven O’Connor — she is pulled deeper and deeper into a world of rule breakers and mischief makers. She finds herself drawn to Steven... Read more

Face of the Enemy

By: Joanne Dobson & Beverle Graves Myers

Narrated by: Celeste Lawson

Length: 13 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

In December 1941, America is reeling from the brutal attack on Pearl Harbor. Both patriotism and paranoia grip New York as the city frantically mobilizes for war. Nurse Louise Hunter is outraged when the FBI, in a midnight sweep of prominent Japanese residents, storms in to arrest her patient’s wife. The desperately ill Professor Oakley is... Read more

No Safe Harbor

By: Elizabeth Ludwig

Narrated by: Eleni Pappageorge

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

New York City, 1897. She came to America searching for her brother. Instead all she's found is a web of danger. Cara Hamilton had thought her brother to be dead. Now, clutching his letter, she leaves Ireland for America, desperate to find him. Her search leads her to a houseful of curious strangers, and one man who claims to be a friend — Rourke... Read more

The Witch Hunter

By: Bernard Knight

Narrated by: Paul Matthews

Length: 12 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Exeter, 1195. When a prominent burgess and guild-master falls dead across his horse, Crowner John declines to hold an inquest as the man had been complaining of chest pains and shows no signs of injury.
Events take a sinister turn, however, when a straw-doll is discovered hidden under the man's saddle, a spike driven through its heart... Read more

The Broken Token

By: Chris Nickson

Narrated by: Steven Pacey

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Pickpockets, pimps and prostitutes: All in a day’s work for the city constable – until work moves too close to home… When Richard Nottingham, Constable of Leeds, discovers his former housemaid murdered in a particularly sickening manner, his professional and personal lives move perilously close. Circumstances seem to conspire against him, and... Read more

Highland Destiny

By: Hannah Howell

Narrated by: Angela Dawe

Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

When destiny brought Sir Balfour Murray and his wounded brother down the same road as Maldie Kirkaldy, she offered her services as a nurse even as she tried to deny the desire this dark-eyed knight had ignited at first sight. Soon they discover that they both share a mission of vengeance, but Maldie cannot tell him her true identity—to do so... Read more

The Chemistry of Tears

By: Peter Carey

Narrated by: Susan Lyons & Jefferson Mays

Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Critics have used every possible superlative to praise the works of two-time Man Booker Prize winner Peter Carey. In The Chemistry of Tears, Carey continues to astound with a story of love, death and human invention. Museum curator Catherine's affair comes to an abrupt end with her married lover's untimely death. Denied outward grief by the... Read more

The Queen's Promise

By: Lyn Andrews

Narrated by: Gordon Griffin

Length: 14 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

From bestselling author Lyn Andrews comes a compelling historical epic set at the endlessly fascinating Tudor court about the most infamous woman of the age - Anne Boleyn - and the man who loved her before she became queen.

From the moment Henry Percy, future Earl of Northumberland, glimpses the beautiful Anne Boleyn he is captivated and quickly... Read more

Rote Sonne, schwarzes Land (Gekürzte Fassung) - Abridged

By: Barbara Wood

Narrated by: Tanja Geke

Length: 11 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Was ist die Macht des Clans gegen das Wagnis der Liebe?" 1917: Dr. Grace Treverton erreicht Kenia, das schwarze Land, entschlossen, den Eingeborenen die Segnungen der modernen Medizin zu bringen. Ihr Bruder, Lord Valentine, träumt von der Zukunft dieses britischen Protektorats: ein landwirtschaftliches Imperium, größer als jedes in der alten... Read more

The Mongoliad: Book Two

By: Neal Stephenson, Erik Bear, Greg Bear, Joseph B...

Narrated by: Luke Daniels

Length: 12 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

This riveting second installment in Stephenson and company’s epic tale focuses on the aftermath of the world-shattering Mongolian invasion of 1241 and the difficult paths undertaken by its most resilient survivors. The Shield Brethren, an order of warrior monks, search for a way to overthrow the horde, even as the invaders take its members... Read more

Rules to Catch a Devilish Duke

By: Suzanne Enoch

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 10 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Sophia White knows she will never marry into polite society. The illegitimate daughter of a nobleman, she works at the Tantalus Club, a discreet establishment for gentlemen—and her only suitor is a pastor who wants to save her soul. So when Sophia is invited to spend the holidays at the estate of Adam Baswich, the devilishly handsome Duke of... Read more

Never Seduce a Scot

By: Maya Banks

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 10 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Eveline Armstrong is fiercely loved and protected by her powerful clan, but outsiders consider her "touched." Beautiful, fey, with a level, intent gaze, she doesn't speak. No one, not even her family, knows that she cannot hear. Content with her life of seclusion, Eveline has taught herself to read lips and allows the outside world to view her... Read more

An Outlaw's Christmas

By: Linda Lael Miller

Narrated by: Jack Garrett

Length: 6 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Beloved #1 New York Timesbest-selling author Linda Lael Miller pens tales that sing with the soul of the American West. In An Outlaw's Christmas, Sawyer McKettrick leaves the family ranch to become a marshal in Blue River, Texas. En route, he's badly injured dur-ing a violent blizzard and ends up in the care of schoolteacher Piper St. James. As... Read more

Seven Nights in a Rogue's Bed

By: Anna Campbell

Narrated by: Antony Ferguson

Length: 11 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Desperate to save her sister's life, Sidonie Forsythe has agreed to submit herself to a terrible fate: Beyond the foreboding walls of Castle Craven, a notorious, hideously scarred scoundrel will take her virtue over the course of seven sinful nights. Yet instead of a monster, she encounters a man like no other. And during this week, she comes to... Read more

The Lady Risks All

By: Stephanie Laurens

Narrated by: Matthew Brenher

Length: 16 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

“Laurens’s books are always synonymous with sensuality and strong-willed heroes and heroines.”
—Fresh FictionThe #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Capture of the Earl of Glencrae, romance fiction superstar Stephanie Laurens has done it again with this passionate tale of an oh-so-proper lady and the dangerous man for whom she throws... Read more

Becoming Clementine

By: Jennifer Niven

Narrated by: Kathe Mazur

Length: 12 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Summer 1944, Paris, a secret mission, a dangerous passion—a spellbinding story you will never forgetAfter delivering a B-17 Flying Fortress to Britain, an American volunteers to copilot a plane carrying special agents to their drop spot over Normandy. Her personal mission: to find her brother, who is missing in action. Their plane is shot down,... Read more

You Are the Love of My Life

By: Susan Richards Shreve

Narrated by: Karen White

Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

It is 1973 and Watergate is on everyone's lips. Lucy Painter is a children's book illustrator and a single mother of two. She leaves New York and the married father of her children to live in a tightly knit Washington neighborhood in the house where she grew up and where she discovered her father's suicide. Lucy hopes for a fresh start, but her... Read more