Historical Fiction audiobooks

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Trumpet-Major

By: Thomas Hardy

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Set against the larger-than-life backdrop of the Napoleonic wars, Hardy’s only historical novel tells of the loves and sorrows of ordinary people caught in extraordinary times.When an anticipated invasion brings several regiments to her small rural community, young country maid Anne Garland is courted by three men in uniform: the loyal... Read more

A Song for Summer - Abridged

By: Eva Ibbotson

Narrated by: Emilia Fox

Length: 3 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Set against the backdrop of gathering war, A Song for Summer is an unforgettable love story from master storyteller Eva Ibbotson and read by actress Emilia Fox.

When Ellen Carr abandons grey, dreary London to become housekeeper at an experimental school in Austria, she soon knows she's found her calling.

Swept into an idyllic world of mountains,... Read more

Martha Peake

By: Patrick McGrath

Narrated by: Tom Sellwood

Length: 12 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

When Ambrose Tree is summoned by his ancient uncle to the brooding mansion Drogo Hall, he suspects it's to hear the old man's dying words and then collect a sizable inheritance. He has no idea he is about to learn the bizarre story of Harry Peake, Cornish smuggler turned poet who became a monster capable of the most horrifying acts. Or that he's... Read more

Surrender

By: Amanda Quick

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 12 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Victoria Huntington thought herself quite adept at fending off fortune hunters…until she came under siege from Lucas Colebrook, the darkly disturbing new Earl of Stonevale. For the earl would use her every weakness to woo her and ultimately wed her. And soon Victoria would find herself ensconced in a crumbling mansion deep in the English country... Read more

The German Woman

By: Paul Griner

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik & Michael Page

Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

This riveting war story introduces us to beautiful Kate Zweig, the English widow of a German surgeon, and Claus Murphy, an exiled American with German roots—two lovers with complicated loyalties.In 1918, Kate and her husband, Horst, are taken for spies by Russian soldiers and forced to flee their field hospital on the eastern front, barely... Read more

Private Arrangements

By: Sherry Thomas

Narrated by: Virginia Leishman

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The highly regarded debut novel from Sherry Thomas, Private Arrangements was also a Publishers Weekly 2008 Best Book. When Lady Tremaine petitions her husband for an end to their civil but loveless marriage, Lord Camden agrees on one scandalous condition-she must give him an heir within a year. Their early attempts to fulfill this delicate... Read more

The Branch and the Scaffold

By: Loren D. Estleman

Narrated by: Paul Hecht

Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Legendary author Loren D. Estleman has built a distinguished career in both the Western and mystery genres. His historicalWesterns are instant classics, and The Branch and the Scaffold is another triumph. Brutally efficient judge Isaac C. Parker is determined to rid Arkansas and the Indian Territory of all manner of criminals. But his quest for... Read more

The Rustler

By: Linda Lael Miller

Narrated by: Carol Monda

Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

As "hot as the noontime desert" (Publishers Weekly), Linda Lael Miller's The Rustler captures a fiery romance in early 20th-century Arizona. Wyatt Yarbro, the new deputy marshal of Stone Creek, has his eyes on secretive banker's daughter Sarah Tamlin. But Sarah is a strong, independent woman-no damsel in distress. "Well-developed, personable... Read more

The Wedding Trap

By: Tracy Anne Warren

Narrated by: Bianca Amato

Length: 11 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

In this glittering Regency romance from acclaimed author Tracy Anne Warren, wallflower Eliza Hammond has suddenly become a wealthy heiress. Now, every eligible bachelor is interested in marrying her. Hoping to instruct Eliza in the social graces needed to attract the best suitors, her best friend Violet enlists the help of her brother-in-law,... Read more