Historical Fiction audiobooks

Michael Strogoff, with eBook

By: Jules Verne

Narrated by: John Bolen

Length: 9 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A courier of the Czar must be dispatched to warn the Governor-General of Sibera at once: Ivan Ogareff has allied himself with the fierce and ambitious Feofar-Khan. The Tartar chiefs are pouring their men into Siberia and fomenting rebellion. Should Ivan Ogareff and his allies succeed, the Siberian provinces will be wrested away from Russian... Read more

A Pale Horse

By: Charles Todd

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 11 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Late on a spring night in 1920, five boys cross the Yorkshire dales to the ruins of Fountains Abbey, intent on raising the devil. Instead, they stumble over the devil himself, sitting there watching them. Terrified, they run for their lives, leaving behind a book on alchemy stolen from their schoolmaster. The next morning, a body is discovered... Read more

The Ginseng Hunter

By: Jeff Talarigo

Narrated by: Jaeson Ma

Length: 4 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Set at the turn of the twenty-first century in China along the Tumen River, which separates northeast China and North Korea, The Ginseng Hunter follows the daily life of a Chinese ginseng hunter, who lives alone in the valley, spending his days up in the mountains looking for ginseng and preparing for winter. He is little aware of the world... Read more

Sacred Hearts

By: Sarah Dunant

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 14 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

The year is 1570, and in the convent of Santa Caterina, in the Italian city of Ferrara, noblewomen find space to pursue their lives under God’s protection. But any community, however smoothly run, suffers tremors when it takes in someone by force. And the arrival of Santa Caterina’s new novice sets in motion a chain of events that will shake the... Read more

The Mistress

By: Philippe Tapon

Narrated by: Roe Kendall

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

She is called Simone. She is the illicit lover of Dr. Emile Bastien, who practices medicine on the rue de Maubeuge, treating Parisians and Germans alike. However, Simone is more than his mistress—she is the guardian of all of his most dangerous family secrets. Still, there is one secret the mistress has not been let in on: an ingenious scheme... Read more

The Believer

By: Ann H. Gabhart

Narrated by: Renee Ertl

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Will a forbidden love destroy all they know?  Elizabeth Duncan has nowhere to turn. In charge of her younger brother and sister after their parents die, her options are limited: she can give in to the unwanted advances of an odious landowner—or she can flee. When Elizabeth hears that the Shaker community in the next county takes in orphans, she... Read more

Louise de La Vallière

By: Alexandre Dumas

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 23 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Following The Three Musketeers and Twenty Years After, Dumas continued his D'Artagnan romances with a final trilogy set during the reign of Louis XIV. Louise de La Vallière, the second novel in that trilogy, continues the suspense which began with The Vicomte de Bragelonne and will end with The Man in the Iron Mask. Filled with... Read more

Into the Wilderness

By: Sara Donati

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 30 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Weaving a vibrant tapestry of fact and fiction, Into the Wilderness sweeps us into another time and place . . . and into the heart of a forbidden, incandescent affair between a spinster Englishwoman and an American frontiersman. Here is an epic of romance and history that will captivate readers from the very first page.

When Elizabeth Middleton,... Read more

Dawn On A Distant Shore

By: Sara Donati

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 20 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Elizabeth and Nathaniel Bonner have settled into their life together at the edge of the New York wilderness in the winter of 1794. Soon word reaches them that Nathaniel's father has been arrested by crown officials in British Canada. Nathaniel sets out, determined to see his father freed. Instead, Nathaniel is imprisoned and finds himself in... Read more

Douglass' Women

By: Jewell Parker Rhodes

Narrated by: Robin Miles & Linda Stephens

Length: 11 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The best-selling author of Voodoo Dreams (F0036) focuses on two women who loved the great abolitionist Frederick Douglass. Anna, a free woman of color, was his rescuer, his loving wife and mother to his children. Ottilie Assing, a white German woman, became his intellectual soul mate and mistress. At times, they all lived under the same roof. Read more

The Moon Looked Down

By: Dorothy Garlock

Narrated by: Susanna Burney

Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Sophie Heller and her family emigrated from Germany to the small town of Victory, Illinois, well before WWII began. But now that the war has deeply affected the town, local residents are beginning to turn a cold shoulder toward them. Then tragedy strikes when a train is derailed, and the Heller family is unfairly blamed. With paranoia and... Read more

Loving a Lost Lord

By: Mary Jo Putney

Narrated by: Kate Rawson

Length: 10 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Battered by the sea, Adam remembers nothing of his past, his ducal rank, nor of the shipwreck that almost claimed his life. But he's delighted to hear that the golden-haired vision tending his wounds is his wife. Mariah's name and face may not be familiar, but her touch, her warmth, feel deliciously right.When Mariah Clarke prayed for a way to... Read more

Sarah's Cottage

By: D.E. Stevenson

Narrated by: Hilary Neville

Length: 10 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Recently married to Charles, Sarah is furnishing a cottage in Scotland and starting on a life in sharp contrast to their wartime experiences. Their full entrance into village life is helped by Sarah's delightful grandparents, who have given them the land on which they have built their cottage. They work together, collaborating in translations... Read more

The Stolen One

By: Suzanne Crowley

Narrated by: Sarah Coomes

Length: 8 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

No one wanted you. But I did. Kat's true identity is a secret, even from her. All she has ever known are Grace and Anna and their small village. Kat wants more—more than hours spent embroidering finery for wealthy ladies and more than Christian, the gentle young farmer courting her. But there are wolves outside, Grace warns. Waiting, with their... Read more

What Happens in London

By: Julia Quinn

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Rumors and Gossip . . . The lifeblood of London When Olivia Bevelstoke is told that her new neighbor may have killed his fiancée, she doesn't believe it for a second, but, still, how can she help spying on him, just to be sure? So she stakes out a spot near her bedroom window, cleverly concealed by curtains, watches, and waits . . . and... Read more

800 Leagues on the Amazon, with eBook

By: Jules Verne

Narrated by: John Bolen

Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Joam Garral of Iquitos, Peru, concedes to his daughter's wishes to travel to Belem, Brazil, where she can marry Manuel Valdez in the presence of Manuel's invalid mother. The Garrals plan to make the journey to Belem down the Amazon River via a giant raft. Along the way, Joam plans to get his good name restored, as he is still wanted in Brazil... Read more

Ship of Rome

By: John Stack

Narrated by: Laurence Kennedy

Length: 11 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Against a backdrop of the clash of the Roman and Carthaginian empires, the battle for sovereignty takes place on the high seas Atticus, captain of one of the ships of Rome's small, coastal fleet, is from a Greek fishing family. Septimus, legionary commander, reluctantly ordered aboard ship, is from Rome, born into a... Read more

Roman Blood

By: Steven Saylor

Narrated by: Scott Harrison

Length: 14 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

In Rome, 80 BC, on a warm spring morning, Gordianus the Finder receives a summons to the house of a then-unknown young advocate and orator, Cicero. Ambitious and brilliant, the twenty-six-year-old Cicero is about to argue his first important case. His client is a wealthy farmer, one Sextus Roscius of the town of Ameria, who stands accused of the... Read more

Everything Matters!

By: Ron Currie

Narrated by: Abby Craden, Mark Deakins, Lincoln Hoppe & Hill...

Length: 12 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

In infancy, Junior Thibodeaux is encoded with a prophesy: a comet will obliterate life on Earth in thirty-six years. Alone in this knowledge, he comes of age in rural Maine grappling with the question: Does anything I do matter? While the voice that has accompanied him since conception appraises his choices, Junior's loved ones emerge with... Read more

Winter in Madrid

By: C.J. Sansom

Narrated by: Gordon Griffin

Length: 21 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Best-selling British author C.J. Sansom has been awarded the Ellis Peters Historical Dagger Award. Winter in Madrid is set just after the bloody Spanish Civil War, with World War II looming over Europe. Reluctantly, Harry Brett looks for an old schoolmate who's become a person of interest for British intelligence. "A bestseller in the U.K., this... Read more

Merely the Groom

By: Rebecca Hagan Lee

Narrated by: Virginia Leishman

Length: 10 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Rebecca Hagan Lee is a best-selling and award-winning author. She writes engaging historical romances that are packed with intrigue. Barely a Bride (L1129) introduced the wealthy bachelors of the Free Fellows League. In this second novel of the series, Colin McElreath, Viscount Grantham, is being forced into a marriage-one intended to protect... Read more

Hardly a Husband

By: Rebecca Hagan Lee

Narrated by: Virginia Leishman

Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

National best-selling author and Romantic Times Award nominee Rebecca Hagan Lee pushes another stubborn bachelor of the Free Fellows League toward the altar in Hardly a Husband. Obstinate Marquess Jarrod Shepherdston is not about to take the plunge without protest. He has taken great pains to avoid romance his entire life. But when beautiful... Read more

A Rogue of My Own

By: Johanna Lindsey

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

How does an innocent lady find herself forced to wed a royal spy who seduced her—by mistake? For Lady Rebecca Marshall, a whirlwind of passion and excitement begins when, to her mother’s great delight, she becomes a maid of honor at the court of Queen Victoria. Rebecca’s mother sees this appointment as a golden opportunity for Rebecca to make a... Read more

The Path of the King, with eBook

By: John Buchan

Narrated by: John Bolen

Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The Path of the King offers a tapestry of historical episodes, from the Vikings through centuries of Norman and French, Flemish, English, Scottish, and American social, economic, and political life. Famous events such as the massacre of St. Bartholomew's Eve, the adventures of Daniel Boone, and much else provide the background for the men and... Read more