Romance audiobooks

The Botox Diaries

By: Janice Kaplan & Lynn Schnurnberger

Narrated by: Susan Denaker

Length: 11 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

In a world where plastic surgery is as popular as a pair of sexy Manolo Blahniks, suburban single mom Jessica Taylor is trying to make it past forty with nothing more than moisturizer and a swipe of mascara. Her glamorous best friend, TV producer Lucy Baldor, has a different idea of aging gracefully. “My body is a temple,” Lucy explains. “I just... Read more

A Good Year

By: Peter Mayle

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 7 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

From Peter Mayle, a wonderful new novel steeped in wine—and the business of wine?and set in, bien sûr, Provence.

Max Skinner is not exactly setting the London financial world on fire?and when his supervisor steals his biggest client, it’s definitely time to inspect the vineyard in Provence that his recently departed uncle left him. Heartily... Read more

Mad About the Boy

By: Maggie Alderson

Narrated by: Stephanie Daniel

Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Of all the nightmare options that passed through Antonia Heaveringham's head when her husband Hugo uttered the words, 'I've got something to tell you...', a coming-out speech never figured. Suddenly alone in their adopted home of Sydney, with no friends save for her six-year-old son Tom and a pair of jewelled Jimmy Choo mules, Antonia soon finds... Read more

Above and Beyond - Abridged

By: Sandra Brown

Narrated by: Kate Forbes

Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

LETTERS OF LOVE
The letters Kyla sent to her husband, Sergeant Richard Stroud, stationed a world away, spoke of a love that stretched across the ocean and held the young couple together. But when tragedy ended their marriage too soon, Kyla was left a widow with a newborn son. And Richard left behind only a metal box filled with his wife's... Read more

Ransom

By: Danielle Steel

Narrated by: Ron McLarty

Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

A violent crime brings together four lives in Danielle Steel’s sixtieth bestselling novel, the story of a mother’s courage, a family’s terror, and a triumph of human strength and dignity in the face of overwhelming odds.

Outside the gates of a California prison, Peter Morgan is released after four long years and vows to redeem himself in the eyes... Read more

Ransom - Abridged

By: Danielle Steel

Narrated by: Ron McLarty

Length: 5 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A violent crime brings together four lives in Danielle Steel’s sixtieth bestselling novel, the story of a mother’s courage, a family’s terror, and a triumph of human strength and dignity in the face of overwhelming odds.

Outside the gates of a California prison, Peter Morgan is released after four long years and vows to redeem himself in the eyes... Read more

The Birth of Venus - Abridged

By: Sarah Dunant

Narrated by: Jenny Sterlin

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Alessandra Cecchi is not quite fifteen when her father, a prosperous cloth merchant, brings a young painter back from northern Europe to decorate the chapel walls in the family’s Florentine palazzo. A child of the Renaissance, with a precocious mind and a talent for drawing, Alessandra is intoxicated by the painter’s abilities.

But their... Read more

To Have and to Hold

By: Jane Green

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

When Alice's wealthy—and much coveted—teenage crush, Joe, asks her to marry him, she is prepared to trade in her dream of a cottage filled with children, animals and home-cooked meals for what he has in mind for her: stilettos, blond highlights, and a diet. She tells herself that she's happy to sacrifice for love, especially when every woman in... Read more

Cold Mountain

By: Charles Frazier

Narrated by: Charles Frazier

Length: 14 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE

One of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory, Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain is a masterpiece that is at once an enthralling adventure, a stirring love story, and a luminous evocation of a vanished American in all its savagery, solitude, and splendor.

Sorely wounded and fatally disillusioned in the fighting at... Read more

Victorine

By: Catherine Texier

Narrated by: Josephine Bailey

Length: 11 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

In this lush, lyrical, and marvelously evocative novel, Catherine Texier takes a mystery from her family’s past and draws from it a portrait of a remarkable woman—her great-grandmother Victorine. A young schoolteacher in a quiet province in France, Victorine had married and had two children. But when she falls desperately in love, she makes a... Read more

The Lady and the Unicorn

By: Tracy Chevalier

Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld & Terry Donnelly

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

A tour de force of history and imagination, The Lady and the Unicorn is Tracy Chevalier’s answer to the mystery behind one of the art world’s great masterpieces—a set of bewitching medieval tapestries that hangs today in the Cluny Museum in Paris. They appear to portray the seduction of a unicorn, but the story behind their making is... Read more

How Stella Got Her Groove Back - Abridged

By: Terry McMillan

Narrated by: Terry McMillan

Length: 2 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

How Stella Got Her Groove Back is full of Terry McMillan's signature humor, heart, and insight. More than a love story, it is ultimately a novel about how a woman saves her own life—and what she must risk to do it.

Stella Payne is forty-two, divorced, a high-powered investment analyst, mother of eleven-year-old Quincy- and she does it all. In... Read more

Crown Jewel - Abridged

By: Fern Michaels

Narrated by: John Dossett

Length: 4 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“A wonderfully heartwarming, compelling story” (Romantic Times Book Reviews) about two very different brothers and the one woman who loved them both from New York Times bestselling author Fern Michaels.

Handsome, rich, and adored by millions, Ricky Lam was a golden boy—with a dark side. The substance-addicted superstar had hit rock bottom, but... Read more

Macbeth - Abridged

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Anthony Quayle & (Null) Cast

Length: 2 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

""Is this a dagger I see before me?""

Features a unique cover illustration by Maurice Sendak (Where the Wild Things Are), specially commissioned for the Shakespeare on Compact Disc series. Read more

A Midsummer Night's Dream - Abridged

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Paul Scofield & (Null) Cast

Length: 2 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

""How shall we beguile the lazy time,if not with some delight?""

Features a unique cover illustration by Maurice Sendak (Where the WildThings Are), specially commissioned for the Shakespeare on Compact Discseries. An introductory essay by Harvard scholar Harold Bloom accompanies the CD. Read more

Romeo and Juliet - Abridged

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Claire Bloom & Albert Finney

Length: 2 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A pair of star-cross'd lovers   -PrologueRomeo and Juliet was Shakespeare's first great tragedy, a richly lyrical love story that has long been one of the author's most popular plays for performer and audience alike. Romeo and Juliet is a simple but dramatic cautionary tale about the blindness that both love and hate can engender. As performed... Read more

Firestorm

By: Iris Johansen

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen turns up the heat in this explosive new psychological thriller. This time a gifted arson investigator teams up with a mysterious operative to stop a killer raging completely out of control...

For Kerry Murphy, the inferno is never far away. The flames of that long-ago night still burn in her... Read more

Can You Keep a Secret?

By: Sophie Kinsella

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 10 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Party Crasher and Love Your Life comes a novel with the same wicked humor, buoyant charm, and optimism as her beloved Shopaholic series.

“Sophie Kinsella keeps her finger on the cultural pulse, while leaving me giddy with laughter.”—Jojo Moyes, author of The Giver... Read more

Hollywood Divorces - Abridged

By: Jackie Collins

Narrated by: Jackie Collins

Length: 6 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In her most scandalously titillating novel since the #1 bestselling Hollywood Wives, internationally renowned author Jackie Collins once again takes her readers behind the scenes and into the bedrooms of Hollywood's glamorous world of superstardom, where narcissism is a virtue, and fidelity means not sleeping with anyone less attractive than... Read more

The Reckoning

By: Beverly Lewis

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Shunned from the Amish life she once knew, Katherine Mayfield finds solace in her volunteer work and the delights of the modern world. Unknown to Katherine, her long-lost love, Daniel Fisher, is desperate to locate his "sweetheart girl," only to be frustrated at nearly every turn. Once again, Katherine is compelled to face the heritage of her... Read more

Seduced by a Prince

By: Tanya Anne Crosby

Narrated by: James Gillies

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Separated at birth - reunited at knifepoint!Merrick Welbourne never expected to discover a long-lost twin! Particularly one who'd rob him and leave him senseless on the road. Now living his brother's aristocratic life, he had new trials, tribulations...and temptations he'd never dreamed of. Not the least being Chloe Simon, she of rare mettle,... Read more

Who Killed Angelique?

By: Emma Darcy

Narrated by: Stephanie Daniel

Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

K.C. Gordon can't wait to find out what her old school friend Angelique means by this cryptic comment. But before they meet someone cuts short the life of international model Angelique Lanci in a hail of bullets. Loved by few, despised and envied by many, Angelique instigated infidelities, salacious gossip, betrayal and jealousy. But did she... Read more

One Tuesday Morning

By: Karen Kingsbury

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 13 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Jake is a New York City fireman and devoted family man. Eric is climbing the corporate ladder at the expense of his wife and children. On a fateful Tuesday in September, two strangers meet for a startling moment in a smoke-filled stairway. Only one will leave the Twin Towers alive. Will he find his way home?The last thing Jake Bryan knew was the... Read more

Ulterior Motives - Abridged

By: Terri Blackstock

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 3 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The police think he killed someone. He swears he’s innocent. All she knows for certain is his crime against her. Louis Dubose, international art dealer, has been murdered. The police are certain they’ve got their man. Recently fired by Dubose, Ben Robinson has a motive backed by a convincing trail of evidence. Except that one person isn’t... Read more