Historical Fiction audiobooks

The Long Hunt

By: Cameron Judd

Narrated by: James Jenner

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

When Deborah Bledsoe's father hears that his daughter may still be alive after being abducted by Cherokee raiders, he hires Crawford Flynn to find her, not knowing that Flynn's tracking skills have been exaggerated. The better bet is Flynn's son Simeon, who actually has the ability to track Deborah through the wilds of the vast, untamed West... Read more

The River of No Return

By: Bee Ridgeway

Narrated by: Samuel Roukin

Length: 18 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Bee Ridgway's wildly inventive debut novel, The River of No Return, blends romance, conspiracy, and time travel for a tale sure to intrigue listeners. When soldier and aristocrat Nick Falcott is sent from a Napoleonic battlefield in 1815 to modern-day London, he never expects to go back--until the Guild calls for him. Returning home as if from... Read more

The Crown Tower

By: Michael J. Sullivan

Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds

Length: 12 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Two men who hate each other. One impossible mission. A legend in the making.

Hadrian Blackwater, a warrior with nothing to fight for, is paired with Royce Melborn, a thieving assassin with nothing to lose. Hired by an old wizard, they must steal a treasure that no one can reach. The Crown Tower is the impregnable remains of the grandest fortress... Read more

The Rathbones

By: Janice Clark

Narrated by: Erin Spencer, Cassandra Campbell, Malcolm Campb...

Length: 14 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

A gothic, literary adventure set in New England, Janice Clark's haunting debut chronicles one hundred years of a once prosperous and now crumbling whaling family, told by its last surviving member.

Mercy Rathbone, fifteen years old, is the diminutive scion of the Rathbone clan. Her father, the last in the beleaguered dynasty, has been lost at sea... Read more

The Purchase

By: Linda Spalding

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

In this provocative and starkly beautiful historical novel, a Quaker family moves from Pennsylvania to the Virginia frontier, where slaves are the only available workers and where the family' s values and beliefs are sorely tested. In 1798, Daniel Dickinson, recently widowed and shunned by his fellow Quakers when he marries his young servant... Read more

Under a Texas Sky

By: Dorothy Garlock

Narrated by: Kristin Kalbli

Length: 9 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Growing up poor and largely abandoned on the streets of 1920s Chicago, Anna Finnegan has struggled her entire life. Until a talent manager discovers her and brings her into the world of theater. Now years later she's about to start shooting her first movie. Arriving on location in Redstone, Texas, in 1932, Anna steps off the train and collides... Read more

Snow Hunters

By: Paul Yoon

Narrated by: Paul Yoon

Length: 3 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the Young Lions Fiction Award, Snow Hunters is “a subtle, elegant, poignant read” (Oprah.com), featuring a Korean War refugee who emigrates to Brazil to become a tailor’s apprentice and confronts the wreckage of his past.

“Exquisitely enigmatic…a small but radiant star in the current literary firmament” (The Dallas Morning News), Snow... Read more

The Crooked Maid

By: Dan Vyleta

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 15 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Graham Greene meets Dostoevsky in a thrilling and atmospheric story of guilt and restitution set in postwar Vienna.Vienna, 1948. The war is over, and as the initial phase of de-Nazification winds down, the citizens of Vienna struggle to rebuild their lives amid the rubble.Anna Beer returns to the city she fled nine years earlier after... Read more

The Passion of the Purple Plumeria

By: Lauren Willig

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 12 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED!

Lauren Willig’s Pink Carnation novels have been hailed as “sheer fun”* and “charming.”** Now she takes readers on an adventure filled with hidden treasure and a devilishly handsome English colonel....

Colonel William Reid has returned home from India to retire near his children, who are safely stowed at an academy in Bath.... Read more

Love and Lament

By: John Milliken Thompson

Narrated by: Christine Williams

Length: 13 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in rural North Carolina between the Civil War and World War I, Love and Lament chronicles the Hartsoe family's ex­traordinary hardships and misfortunes.Mary Bet, the youngest of nine children, was born the same year the first railroad arrived in their county. As she comes of age during the South's reconstruction and industrialization, she... Read more

Highlander Betrayed

By: Laurin Wittig

Narrated by: Phil Gigante

Length: 9 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Hidden deep in the rugged Scottish Highlands lies the Highland Targe, an ancient relic guarded for centuries by clan MacAlpin. It is said the Targe can shield the heart of the Highlands from invaders and now, as part of his plan to crush the Scottish rebellion, the English king wants the Targe for himself…Rowan MacGregor, orphaned niece to the... Read more

The Serpent and the Pearl

By: Kate Quinn

Narrated by: Leila Birch, Maria Elena Infantino & Ronan Vibert

Length: 16 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

One powerful family holds a city, a faith, and a woman in its grasp—from the national bestselling author of Daughters of Rome and Mistress of Rome.

Rome, 1492. The Holy City is drenched with blood and teeming with secrets. A pope lies dying and the throne of God is left vacant, a prize awarded only to the most virtuous—or the most ruthless. The... Read more

Spring Awakening

By: T. J. Brown

Narrated by: Sarah Coomes

Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

The laughter of summer lawn parties fades for the men and women of Summerset Abbey, as the rumble of cannon-fire sweeps across Europe. In a changing world, they soon find that only one thing is certain: none of them will ever be the same.Rowena BuxtonThe female pilot’s upcoming wedding to Sebastian Billingsly is the talk of society. Rowena loves... Read more

Firebrand

By: Elizabeth Fremantle

Narrated by: Georgina Sutton

Length: 14 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The basis for the major motion picture Firebrand—which reveals the tumultuous darker side to the marriages of the notorious King of England, Henry VIII, and the wife who survived.

“Smart, sensual, and suspenseful as a thriller, this is a must-read for Philippa Gregory fans.” —People

Widowed for the second time at age thirty-one, Katherine Parr... Read more

The Warrior

By: Margaret Mallory

Narrated by: Derek Perkins

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

From the Isle of Skye to the battlefields of France, Duncan MacDonald has never escaped the memory of the true love he left behind. Deemed unworthy of a chieftain's daughter, Duncan abandoned the lovely Moira to prove his worth in battle. Now, when called upon to rescue her from a rival clan, one thing is certain: Moira's pull on his heart is... Read more

Temptation in a Kilt

By: Victoria Roberts

Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

It's a sign of Lady Rosalia Armstrong's desperation that she's seeking refuge in a place as rugged and challenging as the Scottish Highlands. She doesn't care about hardship and discomfort, if only she can become master of her own life. Laird Ciaran MacGregor, however, is completely beyond her control . . .



Ciaran MacGregor knows it's perilous... Read more

Stealing the Preacher

By: Karen Witemeyer

Narrated by: Cynthia Darlow

Length: 9 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

On his way to interview for a position at a church in the Piney Woods of Texas, Crockett Archer can scarcely believe it when he's forced off the train by a retired outlaw and presented to the man's daughter as the minister she requested for her birthday. Worried this unfortunate detour will ruin his chances of finally serving a congregation of... Read more

Lady Folbroke's Delicious Deception

By: Christine Merrill

Narrated by: Julia Franklin

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Emily Longesley married the love of her life and hoped that he would learn to love her. Instead, he upped and left their country estate for London. Suffering the snub with dignity, three years on Emily has had enough! Confronting her errant husband, Emily sees that Adrian, Earl of Folbroke, has been robbed of his sight and doesn't know her at... Read more

Innocent Courtesan to Adventurer's Bride

By: Louise Allen

Narrated by: Jilly Bond

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

OUT OF THE BROTHEL Wrongly accused of theft, innocent Celina Shelley is cast out of the brothel she calls home and flees to Quinn Ashley, Lord Dreycott, for safety. But the heat in the daredevil adventurer's eyes tells Lina that the danger is just beginning.... AND INTO THE RAKE'S BEDROOM! Lina dresses like a nun, looks like an angel, but flirts... Read more

The Spice Merchant's Wife

By: Charlotte Betts

Narrated by: Penelope Freeman

Length: 13 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

1666. Newly married to a wealthy spice merchant, Kate Finche believes all her dreams of a happy family life are just around the corner until the Great Fire rages through London. She watches in horror as their livelihood goes up in flames, filling the air with the heady scents of cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves.

As the city is devastated, Kate's... Read more

The Glass Ocean

By: Lori Baker

Narrated by: Cat Gould

Length: 11 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A story of love, art, and obsession in Victorian England from debut novelist Lori BakerThe Glass Ocean is a story of becoming. Flamehaired, six-foot-two in stocking feet, newly orphaned Carlotta Dell'oro recounts the lives of her parents—solitary glassmaker Leopoldo Dell'oro and beautiful, unreachable Clotilde Girard—and discovers in their... Read more

Palast der Schatten

By: Dagmar Fohl

Narrated by: Dagmar Fohl

Length: 5 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

1914. Ein kleines Stadtkino zur Zeit des Stummfilms. Der Filmerzähler Theo und die Kinopianistin Carla verlieben sich leidenschaftlich. Beide gehen völlig in ihrer Arbeit auf, doch ihr Glück wird überschattet von Carlas verhängnisvoller Vergangenheit. Der Ausbruch des Ersten Weltkrieges reißt das Paar auseinander und stellt seine Liebe auf... Read more

Instrument of Slaughter - The Home Front Detective, book 2 (Unabridged)

By: Edward Marston

Narrated by: Gordon Griffin

Length: 11 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

January 1916. Britain is on the brink of enforcing conscription. Eligible young men who have not yet signed up to fight are despised as 'conchies' and 'shirkers', subjected to hatred and verbal abuse. Cyril Ablatt, leader of Shoreditch's group of conscientious objectors, makes a rousing speech at a meeting of the No-Conscription Fellowship,... Read more

Dark Road Home

By: Elizabeth Ludwig

Narrated by: Eleni Pappageorge

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

The nightmares of her past have found Ana Kavanagh an ocean away.

Ana Kavanagh's memories of Ireland are mostly of fire and pain.

As a girl she survived a blaze that left her an orphan, left her scarred, and left her angry at God. Now in New York, Ana finds a kindred spirit in Eoghan Hamilton, who's struggling with his own anger. His twin... Read more