Historical Fiction audiobooks

A Lady of His Own

By: Stephanie Laurens

Narrated by: Jill Tanner

Length: 17 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Stephanie Laurens' scandalous fiction is savored by romance addicts around the world who can't get enough of her dashing rakes and ravishing debutantes. This sultry addition to her New York Times best-selling Bastion Club series presents an unforgettable tale of rekindled love and unbridled passion. As betrayal and intrigue swirl around her,... Read more

Codex 632

By: Jose Rodrigues Dos Santos

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 11 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Who was the enigma the world knows as Christopher Columbus.....and why has his true identity been covered up for centuries? When an aged scholar is found mysteriously dead in his hotel room, Thomas Noronha, expert cryptographer and professor of history, is called upon to finish the man's unresolved investigation. In the course of unraveling the... Read more

The Romanov Bride

By: Robert Alexander

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki & Gabrielle de Cuir

Length: 9 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

When tsarist soldiers fire at a group of peaceful village protestors and kill his young bride, Pavel dedicates his life to overthrowing the Romanovs. Pavel’s underground group assassinates the Grand Duke, changing the life of the Grand Duchess Elisavyeta forever.Grief-stricken, Elisavyeta gives up her wealth and becomes a nun dedicated to the... Read more

Dog Soldiers

By: Robert Stone

Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte

Length: 11 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

In Saigon during the waning days of the Vietnam War, a small-time journalist named John Converse thinks he’ll find action—and profit—by getting involved in a big-time drug deal. But back in the States, things go horribly wrong for him. His courier disappears—probably with his wife—and a corrupt Fed wants Converse to find them and the drugs. Or... Read more

Seven for a Secret

By: Mary Reed & Eric Mayer

Narrated by: James Adams

Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

As Lord Chamberlain, John spent his days counseling Emperor Justinian while passing the small hours of night in conversation with the solemn-eyed little girl depicted in a mosaic on his study wall. He never expected to meet her in a public square—or afterwards, to find her red-dyed corpse in a subterranean cistern. Had the mysterious woman truly... Read more

Terra Incognita

By: Ruth Downie

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 11 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

It is spring in the year 118, and Hadrian has been emperor of Rome for less than a year. After his long and reluctant investigation of the murders of a handful of local prostitutes, Gaius Petreius Ruso needs to get out of town. With that in mind, he has volunteered for a posting with the army in the far reaches of Britannia—a calmer place for a... Read more

Mary of Nazareth

By: Marek Halter

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

The ancient world and its politics come to life through the eyes of a young Jewish woman, Mary of Nazareth

Miriam–also known as Mary–was born into a Palestine oppressed by Herod the Great; she is accustomed to living with uncertainty and unrest. But when her beloved father is wrongly imprisoned by the Romans, she takes action. She calls upon a... Read more

Sebastian Darke: Prince of Fools

By: Philip Caveney

Narrated by: Maxwell Caulfield

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The lord of Laughter, the Monarch of Mirth–if only the bumbling 17-year-old Sebastian Darke could be a successful jester like his father. The problem is Sebastian’s not funny. But after his father’s death, with no choice but to beg in the streets, the half-human, half-elf teen sets off with Max, his father’s slightly cynical Buffalope, to offer... Read more

Sepulchre

By: Kate Mosse

Narrated by: Donada Peters

Length: 20 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of Labyrinth-"a rich brew of supernaturalism and intrigue."(Kirkus Reviews)

In 1891, young Léonie Vernier and her brother arrive at the home of their widowed aunt in Rennes-le-Bains, in southwest France. But nothing is as Léonie had imagined. Their aunt is young, willowy, and beautiful, and the estate... Read more

One Is the Sun

By: Patricia Nell Warren

Narrated by: Lorna Raver

Length: 23 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Surviving a massacre of wise Mayan priestesses, Earth Thunder flees her temple and journeys north to teach those who wish to know Mother Earth and her great circles of life. Meanwhile, a European noblewoman sends her family across the ocean to renew a spiritual link with native America. To her grandniece, Helle, she entrusts a mission.In her... Read more

Hundred in the Hand

By: Joseph M. Marshall III

Narrated by: Joseph M. Marshall III & John Terry

Length: 9 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Seeking to round out the compelling story of the American West, bestselling Lakota author Joseph M. Marshall III brings a new slant to the traditional Western: historical fiction written from the Native American viewpoint.This riveting novel takes place during the Battle of the Hundred in the Hand, otherwise known as the Fetterman Massacre of... Read more

The Bride of the Wilderness

By: Charles McCarry

Narrated by: Pam Ward

Length: 19 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

The acclaimed author of such suspense classics as The Tears of Autumn and The Miernik Dossier brings us a unique period romance, set in early eighteenth-century Europe and New England featuring the ancestors of his recurring master-spy Paul Christopher.Young, high-spirited Fanny has been fortunate in her civilized upbringing, but the London she... Read more

Angelica

By: Arthur Phillips

Narrated by: Susan Lyons

Length: 12 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of The Egyptologist and Prague comes an even more accomplished and entirely surprising new novel. Angelica is a spellbinding Victorian ghost story, an intriguing literary and psychological puzzle, and a meditation on marriage, childhood, memory, and fear. The novel opens in London, in the 1880s, with the Barton... Read more

The Bible of Clay

By: Julia Navarro

Narrated by: Shohreh Aghdashloo

Length: 20 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

In St. Peter’s Basilica, a man sits in a confessional asking forgiveness for a murder he’s about to commit. And a young priest begins a desperate journey to stop him. . . .

It’s only the beginning of a ruthless race among the world’s most powerful to find a rumored cache of sacred texts inscribed with the story of Creation as told by Abraham.... Read more

Lady Macbeth

By: Susan King

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 10 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

"I am a granddaughter to a king and daughter to a prince, a wife twice over, a queen as well. I have fought with sword and bow, and struggled fierce to bear my babes into this world. I have loved deeply and hated deeply, too. I know embroidery and hawks and kingship, and more magic than I should admit."



Lady Gruadh, called Rue, is the last female... Read more

The Iron Tongue of Midnight

By: Beverle Graves Myers

Narrated by: Geoffrey Blaisdell

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

In September 1740, singer Tito Amato is offered the lead role in an opera being staged at an isolated villa in the Italian hills. Puzzled by the air of secrecy that enshrouds the production but attracted by a generous fee, Tito agrees.The countryside is awash with the golden hues of autumn, but the bucolic mood quickly turns menacing when a... Read more

The Unknown Shore

By: Patrick O'Brian

Narrated by: Patrick Tull

Length: 11 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Inspired by the Wager disaster, The Unknown Shore is an immediate precursor to Patrick O'Brian's acclaimed Aubrey/Maturin series that displays all the splendid prose and attention to detail that delight O'Brian's millions of fans.Patrick O'Brian's first novel about the sea, The Golden Ocean, took inspiration from Commodore George Anson's fateful... Read more

To Rescue A Rogue

By: Jo Beverley

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 11 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times best-selling sensation Jo Beverley's acclaimed romances have earned her four RITA Awards from the Romance Writers of America. This final installment in her Company of Rogues series promises a glorious send-off to the last bachelor in their ranks. Lady Mara St. Bride spends an adventure-filled evening on the town in London and... Read more

Under the Greenwood Tree

By: Thomas Hardy

Narrated by: Margaret Hilton

Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Dick Dewy and Fancy Day, the lovers; the simpleton Leaf; Penney the shoemaker; and the rest of the Mellstock rustics inhabit this charming sunlit novel, the first in the great Wessex canon. The book is divided into the four seasons of the year and, like a happily-remembered childhood, a tranquil timelessness and Arcadian appropriateness is... Read more

Dreamers of the Day

By: Mary Doria Russell

Narrated by: Ann Marie Lee

Length: 11 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

“I suppose I ought to warn you at the outset that my present circumstances are puzzling,even to me. Nevertheless, I am sure of this much: My little story has become your history. You won’t really understand your times until you understand mine.” So begins the account of Agnes Shanklin, the charmingly diffident narrator of DREAMERS OF THE DAY.... Read more

The Reverse of the Medal

By: Patrick O'Brian

Narrated by: Patrick Tull

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Captain Jack Aubrey, R. N., ashore after a successful cruise, is persuaded by a casual acquaintance to make certain investments in the City. This innocent decision ensnares him in the London criminal underground and in government espionage-the province of his friend Stephen Maturin. Is Aubrey's humiliation and the threatened ruin of his career a... Read more

Skylark

By: Jo Beverley

Narrated by: Jill Tanner

Length: 12 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Romantic Times hails Jo Beverley as "one of the great names in the genre." She has won five RITA awards and is a New York Times best-selling author. Dramatic and suspenseful, Skylark is a tale of reawakened love. Young widow Laura Gardeyne must protect her son, who is heir to his family's fortune. When an old friend, the handsome Stephen Ball,... Read more

Territory

By: Emma Bull

Narrated by: Michael Kramer & Kate Reading

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Wyatt Earp. Doc Holliday. Ike Clanton.You think you know the story. You don't.Tombstone, Arizona in 1881 is the site of one of the richest mineral strikes in American history, where veins of silver run like ley lines under the earth, a network of power that belongs to anyone who knows how to claim and defend it.Above the ground, power is also... Read more

Silent Star

By: Tracie Peterson

Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan

Length: 3 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

CBA best-selling author and award-winning novelist, Tracie Peterson pens the tale of Andy Gilbert, a telegram delivery boy. During World War II, many of the young men of Haven, Pennsylvania are fighting in Europe. But still in town, Andy must find the strength to bring the news of the dead to their families. Through the compassion of an older... Read more