Historical Fiction audiobooks

The Hellion and the Highlander

By: Lynsay Sands

Narrated by: Marianna Palka

Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

“You can’t help but fall in love with Lynsay Sands!”
—Christina Dodd Once again, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Lynsay Sands displays another side of her extraordinary talent with The Hellion and the Highlander, a sensuous and wonderfully witty love story set in the breathtaking countryside of Scotland. The tremendously popular... Read more

Dracula, My Love

By: Syrie James

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Length: 13 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Syrie James approaches Bram Stoker's classic Dracula with a breathtaking new perspective—as, for the first time, Mina Harker records the shocking story of her scandalous seduction and sexual rebirth.



Who is this magnetic, fascinating man? And how could one woman fall so completely under his spell?



Mina Harker is torn between two men. Struggling to... Read more

The Sword of the Templars

By: Paul Christopher

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

After a lifetime on the front lines, Army Ranger John Holliday has resigned himself to ending his career teaching at West Point. But when his uncle passes away, Holliday discovers a mysterious medieval sword—wrapped in Adolf Hitler's personal battle standard. Then someone burns down his uncle's house in an attempt to retrieve the sword, and... Read more

That Perfect Someone - Abridged

By: Johanna Lindsey

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 5 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

#1 New York Times bestselling author Johanna Lindsey sweeps readers away on a seductive adventure with the "wickedly witty, lusciously sensual" (Booklist) Malory family when a detested marriage contract turns childhood enemies into passionate lovers.Nine years ago, Richard Allen fled England and his controlling father. Determined to live his own... Read more

Shift

By: Tim Kring & Dale Peck

Narrated by: Robert Forster

Length: 12 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A new caliber of thriller set at the collision of ’60s counterculture and the rise
of dark forces in world government. Heroes creator Tim Kring injects history with a supernatural, hallucinogenic what-if.
 
Set in the crucible of the 1960s, Shift is the story of Chandler Forrestal, a man whose life is changed forever when he is unwittingly dragged... Read more

The Devil's Heiress

By: Jo Beverley

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 12 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Jo Beverley continues her winning streak with this brilliantly woven tale of romantic intrigue. Returning home from the battle of Waterloo, Major George "Hawk" Hawkinville discovers his father has squandered away the family estate. To keep his home, Hawk decides to marry Clarissa Greystone, a contemptuous gold-digger, who's vast fortune isn't... Read more

When the Lights Go On Again

By: Annie Groves

Narrated by: Vicky Mills

Length: 13 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The tide is turning, but on the home front, the battle is far from over for the Campions… Autumn 1944, the allies are invading Italy. At home in Britain, along with everyone else, the Campion family are doing their bit – working tirelessly in the hope that the end of the war is now in sight. Lou, separated from her... Read more

Year of Wonders

By: Geraldine Brooks

Narrated by: Geraldine Brooks

Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

“Plague stories remind us that we cannot manage without community . . . Year of Wonders is a testament to that very notion.” – The Washington Post

An unforgettable tale, set in 17th century England, of a village that quarantines itself to arrest the spread of the plague, from the author The Secret Chord and of March, winner of the Pulitzer Prize 

... Read more

Shades of Milk and Honey

By: Mary Robinette Kowal

Narrated by: Mary Robinette Kowal

Length: 7 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

The fantasy novel you've always wished Jane Austen had written

Shades of Milk and Honey is exactly what we could expect from Jane Austen if she had been a fantasy writer:Pride and Prejudice meets Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell. It is an intimate portrait of a woman, Jane, and her quest for love in a world where the manipulation of glamour is... Read more

The Scorpion’s Bite

By: Aileen G. Baron

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 4 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

It is 1943 and the world is at war. Archaeologist Lily Sampson has been sent by the OSS to survey Trans-Jordan, along with Gideon Weil, the famous director of the American School of Archeology in Jerusalem. In the beautiful, silent, Trans-Jordanian desert, they become stranded in the Wadi Rum and their Bedouin guide is murdered. When Gideon is... Read more

The Red Queen

By: Philippa Gregory

Narrated by: Bianca Amato

Length: 12 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The inspiration for the critically acclaimed Starz miniseries The White Queen, #1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory brings to life Margaret Beaufort, heiress to the red rose of Lancaster, who charts her way through treacherous alliances to take control of the English throne.

Margaret Beaufort never surrenders her belief that her... Read more

Black Mamba Boy

By: Nadifa Mohamed

Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Yemen, 1935. Jama is a half-feral child scavenging with his friends in the dusty streets of a great seaport. For Jama, life is a carnival, at least when he can fill his belly. When his mother dies young, she leaves him only an amulet stuffed with one hundred rupees. Jama decides to spend her life’s meager savings to search for his missing... Read more

The Red Queen - Abridged

By: Philippa Gregory

Narrated by: Bianca Amato

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The inspiration for the critically acclaimed Starz miniseries The White Queen, #1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory brings to life Margaret Beaufort, heiress to the red rose of Lancaster, who charts her way through treacherous alliances to take control of the English throne.

Margaret Beaufort never surrenders her belief that her... Read more

Scarlet Nights - Abridged

By: Jude Deveraux

Narrated by: Rick Holmes

Length: 5 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: Yes

What if you learned that your fiancé was not who he claimed to be?

Engaged to the charming and seductive Greg Anders, Sara Shaw is happily anticipating her wedding in Edilean, Virginia. The date has been set, the flowers ordered, even her heirloom dress is ready. But just three weeks before the wedding, Greg gets a telephone call during the... Read more

Ravishing in Red

By: Madeline Hunter

Narrated by: Polly Lee

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Unabridged, 10 hours

Read by Polly Lee

From acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Madeline Hunter comes this dazzling new tale of erotic passion, the first in a delicious quartet of Regency romance... Read more

Provocative in Pearls

By: Madeline Hunter

Narrated by: Polly Lee

Length: 10 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Unabridged, 10 hours

Read by Polly Lee

New York Times bestselling author Madeline Hunter continues her delicious new quartet of regency romances with this novel about the passion that ignites when fate brings two unlikely souls together. Read more

The Two Mrs Abbotts

By: D.E. Stevenson

Narrated by: Patricia Gallimore

Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Mrs Abbott is flustered at the thought of putting up a lady from the Red Cross, but is happily surprised when she turns out to be an old friend from her previous life as Miss Buncle, infamous writer. Of course, she's now far too busy with her children to write, not to mention helping out in the lives of the villagers. And with a possible spy in... Read more

Desire

By: Amanda Quick

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 10 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Upon her father's death, beautiful, headstrong Lady Clare knew that she must wed, for the protection of the Isle of Desire now fell to her. Yet when her guardian's choice of prospective husband rode through her castle gates, she felt utterly betrayed. All sinewy muscle and savage steel, Sir Gareth of Wyckmere was not the poet she'd requested but... Read more

Stay a Little Longer

By: Dorothy Garlock

Narrated by: Susan Boyce

Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

For Rachel Watkins, the armistice has brought anything but peace. She struggles to run her family’s Minnesota boardinghouse, keep her grief-shattered family together, and fend off the man who is using any means necessary to take her property. But now a shell-shocked stranger takes refuge with the Watkins family as he tries to heal and salvage... Read more

Wicked Intentions

By: Elizabeth Hoyt

Narrated by: Ashford McNab

Length: 12 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author who Lisa Kleypas hails as "too good to be true" comes the first book in her beloved Maiden Lane series.

A MAN CONTROLLED BY HIS DESIRES . . .

Infamous for his wild, sensual needs, Lazarus Huntington, Lord Caire, is searching for a savage killer in St. Giles, London's most notorious slum. Widowed... Read more

The Viognier Vendetta

By: Ellen Crosby

Narrated by: Christine Marshall

Length: 9 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

When Lucie Montgomery visits Washington, DC, she doesn't expect that her reunion with old friend Rebecca Natale is a setup. But Rebecca disappears into thin air after running an errand for her boss, billionaire philanthropist and investment guru Sir Thomas Asher. Also missing: an antique silver wine cooler looted by British soldiers before they... Read more

The Confessions of Catherine de Medici

By: C. W. Gortner

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 15 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

From C. W. Gortner, acclaimed author of The Last Queen, comes an ambitious and gripping new novel about the dramatic, tragic, and misunderstood life of one of history’s most powerful and influential women: Catherine de Medici.To some, she was the ruthless queen who led France into an era of savage violence. To others, she was the passionate... Read more

Honor's Splendour - Abridged

By: Julie Garwood

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the feuding English court, gentle Lady Madelyne suffered the cruel whims of her ruthless brother, Baron Louddon. Then, in vengeance for a bitter crime, Baron Duncan of Wexton — the Wolf — unleashed his warriors against Louddon's domain. Exquisite Madelyne was the prize he captured...but when he gazed upon the proud beauty, he pledged to... Read more

A Fierce Radiance

By: Lauren Belfer

Narrated by: Paula Christensen

Length: 18 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

A Washington Post Best Novel of the Year An NPR Best Mystery of the YearThis suspenseful novel from the New York Times bestselling author of City of Light follows a photojournalist as she takes on an assignment that will involve blackmail, espionage, and murder—all in the early days of America’s involvement in World War II. In the anxious and... Read more