Historical Fiction audiobooks

Come August, Come Freedom

By: Gigi Amateau

Narrated by: JD Jackson

Length: 5 hours

Abridged: No

Born a slave in 1776, Gabriel grows up capable and literate only to be taken from his mother and sent to the capital city as a blacksmith’s apprentice. There in the forge, a meeting point for many travelers and news bearers, his work awakens him to the sparks of resistance that are igniting into rebellion around the globe. When he is unable to... Read more

The Malice of Fortune

By: Michael Ennis

Narrated by: Adrian Paul, Carlotta Montanari, John Lee & Fre...

Length: 14 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Against a teeming canvas of Borgia politics, Niccolò Machiavelli and Leonardo da Vinci come together to unmask an enigmatic serial killer, as we learn the secret history behind one of the most controversial works in the western canon, The Prince...
When Pope Alexander dispatches a Vatican courtesan, Damiata, to the remote fortress city of Imola... Read more

When the Duke Returns

By: Eloisa James

Narrated by: Susan Duerden

Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

The Duchess of Cosway yearns for a man she has never met . . . her husband.Married by proxy as a child, Lady Isidore has spent years fending off lecherous men in every European court while waiting to meet her husband. She's determined to accept him, no matter how unattractive the duke turns out to be. When she finally lures Simeon Jermyn back to... Read more

Black Dahlia & White Rose

By: Joyce Carol Oates

Narrated by: Paul Michael Garcia, Coleen Marlo & Tavia Gilbert

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

“A mesmerizing storyteller who seems almost unnaturally able to enter the tormented inner lives of her characters.”
—Denver PostBlack Dahlia & White Rose is a brilliant collection of short fiction from National Book Award winner and New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates, one of the most acclaimed writers of our time.  These... Read more

Bees in the Butterfly Garden

By: Maureen Lang

Narrated by: Suzy Jackson

Length: 13 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

A Golden Heart Award winner, Maureen Lang pens gripping historical novels celebrating God's grace. Set in the early 1880s, Bees in the Butterfly Garden finds 18-year-old Meg Davenport in New York City after her father dies. Never close to the man-having been raised in an exclusive prep school-Meg is surprised to learn he was not a wealthy... Read more

Interrupted Aria

By: Beverle Graves Myers

Narrated by: Geoffrey Blaisdell

Length: 9 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Venice, the dazzling city on the lagoon, is sailing toward the ruin of her maritime empire, determined to go down in a maelstrom of pleasure, music, and masquerade.Venice, 1731. Opera is the popular entertainment of the day, and the castrati are its reigning stars. Tito Amato, mutilated as a boy to preserve his enchanting soprano voice, returns... Read more

Hero of Rome (Gaius Valerius Verrens 1)

By: Douglas Jackson

Narrated by: Cornelius Garrett

Length: 11 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Perfect for fans of Simon Scarrow and Ben Kane, this heart-stopping historical thriller from bestselling author Douglas Jackson will have you on the edge of your seat!

"Rightly hailed as one of the best historical novelists writing today" -- DAILY EXPRESS

Readers are loving Gaius Valerius Verrens!
"This was probably the best book that I have read... Read more

Painted Veil

By: Beverle Graves Myers

Narrated by: Geoffrey Blaisdell

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Venice, 1734. Castrato soprano Tito Amato, star of Venice opera, has let fame go to his head. Neglecting his vocal practice for dubious pleasures, Tito finds himself demoted to secondary roles and overshadowed by a visiting singer who usurps his position. But when the murder of scene painter Luca Cavalieri threatens to close the opera house,... Read more

The Map of the Sky

By: Félix J. Palma

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 22 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The fate of the earth hangs in the balance as H.G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds is transformed from the work of one writer’s imagination into a terrifying reality for all mankind.

1898. New York socialite Emma Harlow agrees to marry well-to-do Montgomery Gilmore, but only if he first accepts her audacious challenge: to reproduce the Martian... Read more

Death’s Door

By: James R. Benn

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Lieutenant Billy Boyle could have used a rest after his last case, but when his girlfriend, Diana Seaton, a British spy, goes missing in the Vatican, where she was working undercover, he insists on being assigned to a murder investigation there so he can try to help her. Read more

Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures

By: Emma Straub

Narrated by: Molly Ringwald

Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1920, Elsa Emerson is born in idyllic Door County, Wisconsin. Her family owns the Cherry County Playhouse, and Elsa relishes appearing onstage, where she soaks up the approval of her father and the embrace of the audience. But when tragedy strikes her family, acting becomes more than a child's game of pretend. Elsa marries and flees to Los... Read more

Fire Song

By: Catherine Coulter

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 11 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Coulter's medieval melody continues—second in the song series.Lord Graelam de Moreton is willing to accept his new bride, Kassia, as she appears—innocent and guileless. But appearances can be deceiving…. Read more

The Bloodletter's Daughter

By: Linda Lafferty

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 13 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Within the glittering Hapsburg court in Prague lurks a darkness of which no one dares speak…In 1606, the city of Prague shines as a golden mecca of art and culture carefully cultivated by Emperor Rudolf II. But the emperor hides an ugly secret: His bastard son, Don Julius, is afflicted with a madness that pushes the young prince to unspeakable... Read more

The Shoemaker's Wife

By: Adriana Trigiani

Narrated by: Orlagh Cassidy

Length: 17 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Beloved New York Times bestselling author Adriana Trigiani returns with the most epic and ambitious novel of her career—a breathtaking multigenerational love story that spans two continents, two World Wars, and the quest of two star-crossed lovers to find each other again. The Shoemaker's Wife is replete with the all the page-turning adventure,... Read more

Fire Song - Abridged

By: Catherine Coulter

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 5 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Coulter's medieval melody continues—second in the song series.Lord Graelam de Moreton is willing to accept his new bride, Kassia, as she appears—innocent and guileless. But appearances can be deceiving…. Read more

Not My Blood

By: Barbara Cleverly

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 10 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Scotland Yard Detective Joe Sandilands is caught off guard one night in 1933 by a phone call from a distressed boy named Jackie Drummond, who just might be the illegitimate son Joe never knew he had. Jackie is in trouble at his Sussex boarding school, where a teacher has been murdered. When Joe gets himself assigned to the investigation, he... Read more

Stringer in Tombstone

By: Lou Cameron

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 5 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The way Stringer sees it, some cuss hard up for a laugh planted that news tip about Tombstone being flooded because that dusty town is about as dry as they come. But Stringer sure as hell ain't laughing when his newspaper boss sends him to Arizona to root out the truth. And the fast gun that's trying to kill him ain't kidding. And neither are... Read more

Abdication

By: Juliet Nicolson

Narrated by: Carole Boyd

Length: 10 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

England, 1936. The year began with the death of a beloved king and the ascension of a charismatic young monarch, sympathetic to the needs of the working class, glamorous, and single. By year's end, the world would be stunned as it witnessed that new leader give up his throne in the name of love, just as the unrest and violence that would result... Read more

Beatrice Goes to Brighton

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Helen Lisanti

Length: 5 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Join matchmaker Miss Hannah Pym for a romantic seaside adventure in the delightful fourth installment in the Traveling Matchmaker seriesA dead employer’s legacy of five thousand pounds has allowed charming spinster Hannah Pym to give up her housekeeping work and to travel the English countryside, where she encounters adventure and many... Read more

Penelope Goes to Portsmouth

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Helen Lisanti

Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

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

The Melancholy Countess

By: Frank Tallis

Narrated by: Robert Fass

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Haunted by the sudden death of her grown son, Countess Zigana Nadazdy-Hauke is as unhappy as she is elegant. But is she miserable enough to drown herself in the bath? That’s the conventional wisdom in Vienna. But Rheinhardt and Liebermann have another idea after meeting the poor soul’s much younger widower: Oktav Hauke is handsome and dashing,... Read more

With Every Letter

By: Sarah Sundin

Narrated by: Kate Rudd

Length: 12 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Lt. Mellie Blake is looking forward to beginning her training as a flight nurse. She is not looking forward to writing a letter to a man she’s never met — even if it is anonymous and part of a morale-building program. Lt. Tom MacGilliver, an officer stationed in North Africa, welcomes the idea of an anonymous correspondence — he’s been trying to... Read more

Stringer and the Hanging Judge

By: Lou Cameron

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 5 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

They say Judge Roy Bean has been up to some legal tomfoolery again. And it's MacKail's job to get the scoop on the infamous "hanging judge." But someone is out to stop Stringer—dead. Now it could be old Bean and some of his boys. Or maybe it's just another Lone Star gunslick with too much nerve and too little smarts. The only thing MacKail knows... Read more

The Midwife of Venice

By: Roberta Rich

Narrated by: Antoinette LaVecchia

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Hannah Levi is renowned throughout Venice for her gift at coaxing reluctant babies from their mothers-- a gift aided by the secret " birthing spoons" she designed. But when a count implores her to attend to his wife, who has been laboring for days to give birth to their firstborn son, Hannah is torn. A Papal edict forbids Jews from rendering... Read more