Historical Fiction audiobooks

The Blind Contessa's New Machine

By: Carey Wallace

Narrated by: Aasne Vigesaa

Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Carolina Fantoni, a young contessa in nineteenth-century Italy, is going blind. But nobody believes her: neither her parents, nor her fiancé, the town’s most sought-after bachelor. Only her friend Turri, the eccentric local inventor, understands. But as darkness erases her world, Carolina discovers one place she can still see—in her dreams. In... Read more

What Is Left the Daughter

By: Howard Norman

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 7 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Howard Norman, widely regarded as one of this country’s finest novelists, returns to the mesmerizing fictional terrain of his major books—The Bird Artist, The Museum Guard, and The Haunting of L—in this erotically charged and morally complex story.Seventeen-year-old Wyatt Hillyer is suddenly orphaned when his parents, within hours of each other,... Read more

Desperate Duchesses

By: Eloisa James

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 10 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Welcome to a world of reckless sensuality and glittering sophistication . . . of dangerously handsome gentlemen and young ladies longing to gain a title . . . of games played for high stakes, including—on occasion—a lady's virtue.A marquess's sheltered only daughter, Lady Roberta St. Giles falls in love with a man she glimpses across a crowded... Read more

The King's Mistress

By: Emma Campion

Narrated by: Donada Peters

Length: 17 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

History has not been kind to Alice Perrers, the notorious mistress of King Edward III. Scholars and contemporaries alike have deemed her a manipulative woman who used her great beauty and sensuality to take advantage of an aging and increasingly senile king. But who was the woman behind the scandal? A cold-hearted opportunist or someone fighting... Read more

The Seeker

By: Ann H. Gabhart

Narrated by: Renee Ertl

Length: 11 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Trapped by obligation, one woman longs for the freedom of true love. It is 1844 and Lacey Bishop’s life is a tangled mess. When circumstances move Lacey to a nearby Shaker village, she is not prepared for the new life that awaits her. In the midst of her deep loneliness, Lacey works to fit in with this odd group. But everything shifts when she... Read more

Throne of Isis

By: Judith Tarr

Narrated by: Grace Conlin

Length: 15 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Cleopatra, queen of Egypt, was the most powerful woman of the ancient Mediterranean and the only person standing between Rome and its dominion over the world. She was wife to Julius Caesar and bore his only son. After his death, she took his greatest general, Mark Antony, as her lover and consort—and as her partner in a vast political... Read more

Honor's Splendour

By: Julie Garwood

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 13 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

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

The Brazen Bride

By: Stephanie Laurens

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 13 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

“Fabulously entertaining….Laurens adds a dash of exotic spice to her always reliable mix of sexy romance and risky intrigue.”—Booklist The third book in New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Laurens’s sensational Black Cobra Quartet, The Brazen Bride ingeniously blends intrigue and danger with sizzling, passionate love. With ties to... Read more

Pillar of Fire

By: Judith Tarr

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 21 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought in chains as a slave girl to the court of ancient Egypt, Nofret knew intimately the key players in an extraordinary era: the pharaoh Akhenaten, who defied the ancient Egyptian deities to worship the One True God; his beautiful queen, Nefertiti; Tutankhamon, the young boy-king murdered in a ruthless struggle for power; Johanan, the... Read more

The Eagle’s Daughter

By: Judith Tarr

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 13 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

This lushly detailed historical novel tells the story of the tenth-century Byzantine princess Theophano, who ruled as empress during the last days of the Roman Empire. Her story is told through the eyes of her companion and adviser, Aspasia, a widow and royal princess in her own right. At eighteen years old, Theophano is sent to become the wife... Read more

The Keepers of the House

By: Shirley Ann Grau

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 9 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Entrenched on the same land since the early 1800s, the Howlands have for seven generations been pillars of their Southern community. Extraordinary family lore has been passed down to Abigail—the last remaining member of the esteemed family and the last keeper of the house—but not all of it.When shocking facts come to light about the late William... Read more

The Silent Governess

By: Julie Klassen

Narrated by: Elizabeth Jasicki

Length: 15 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

With the stunning prose and engaging characters of The Silent Governess, Christy Award finalist Julie Klassen whisks listeners away to Regency England for a compelling tale of romance and intrigue. Thinking she's guilty of a crime, Olivia Keene flees her home and stumbles upon a grand estate-and a damaging secret. To ensure her silence, Lord... Read more

Nostromo

By: Joseph Conrad

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 17 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Joseph Conrad’s multilayered masterpiece tells of one nation’s violent revolution and one hero’s moral degeneration. Conrad convincingly invents an entire country, Costaguana, and sets it afire as warlords compete for power and a fortune in silver.Señor Gould, adamant that his silver should not become spoil for his enemies, entrusts it to his... Read more

Hazard

By: Jo Beverley

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 13 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Jo Beverley, a New York Times best-selling author, heats up the pages in her Regency romance novels. With Hazard, Beverley delivers a tale of forbidden love. With her beauty and her wealth, Lady Anne Peckworth is quite a catch. But she carries bitterness from a broken heart-until the dangerous Race de Vere enters her life. Can Anne summon the... Read more

Insatiable

By: Virginia Henley

Narrated by: Jill Tanner

Length: 18 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times best-selling author Virginia Henley writes titillating romance novels. In the prim and proper days of England's past, sexy vixen Catherine "Cat" Seton Spencer designs dresses for Queen Elizabeth. But in her spare time, she makes the rounds in London looking to satisfy her unquenchable lust. Little does Cat know, she's on a... Read more

Texas Princess

By: Jodi Thomas

Narrated by: Linda Stephens

Length: 12 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

RITA Award winner Jodi Thomas continues her Whispering Mountain series with this second installment. Horse breeder Tobin McMurray doesn't venture too far from his homestead. But when a Texas senator offers Tobin handsome compensation to deliver a horse to his daughter and teach her how to ride, he grudgingly agrees. Soon Tobin finds himself... Read more

Dead Man’s Ransom

By: Ellis Peters

Narrated by: Roe Kendall

Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

In the early twelfth century, civil war rages between the English and the Welsh. In the battle of Lincoln, the Welsh capture the sheriff of Shropshire and barter him for a young Welsh lord, who had been captured during a misguided assault on a convent. But before the exchange can be completed, one of the prisoners mysteriously dies.Brother... Read more

The Hermit of Eyton Forest

By: Ellis Peters

Narrated by: Roe Kendall

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

The year is 1142. England is in the iron grip of civil war, and within the sheltered cloisters of the Benedictine Abbey of St. Peter and St. Paul, there begins a chain of events no less momentous than the upheavals of the outside world.First, there is the sad demise of the Lord of Eaton, whose ten-year-old son and heir, the young Richard, is a... Read more

The Iliad

By: Homer

Narrated by: Michael Page

Length: 20 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the story of the darkest episode in the Trojan War. At its center is Achilles, the greatest warrior-champion of the Greeks, and his refusal to fight after being humiliated by his leader, Agamemnon. But when the Trojan Hector kills Achilles's close friend Patroclus,... Read more

Raiders from the North

By: Alex Rutherford

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 14 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Raiders from the North ushers in a bold, panoramic new historical series that tells the unknown story of the Moghul emperors, chronicling the rise and fall of one of the most powerful, opulent, and glittering dynasties in history.



Descended from the legendary Tamburlaine, the Moghuls rose out of Central Asia in the sixteenth century. Raiders from... Read more

That Perfect Someone

By: Johanna Lindsey

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 9 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

#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

Taming the Highland Bride

By: Lynsay Sands

Narrated by: Marianna Palka

Length: 9 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

“You can’t help but fall in love with Lynsay Sands!”
 —New York Times bestselling author Christina Dodd Lynsay Sands—the perennial USA Today and New York Times bestselling author well-known and loved for her delightful novels featuring the Argeneau family of vampires—once again shows us another side with Taming the Highland Bride, the second in... Read more

Spies of the Balkans

By: Alan Furst

Narrated by: Daniel Gerroll

Length: 9 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Historical espionage at its finest by the New York Times bestselling author of The Foreign Correspondent , Alan Furst.

The bestselling author of The Spies of Warsaw returns with a stunning new WWII-era novel of intrigue, danger, and love set in Balkan Greece. Master of espionage fiction Alan Furst transports us to the port city of Salonika,... Read more

The Dragon's Bride

By: Jo Beverley

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 10 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Although not penned as a sequel to The Devil's Heiress (L1061), Dragon's Bride introduces Con Somerford, Earl of Wyvern. Somerford inherits an earldom on the coast of England, which he has not visited for over a decade. Years of war and estrangement with his father have left him hard and alone and completely undesiring of the title or lands he... Read more