Historical Fiction audiobooks

Leaving Whiskey Bend

By: Dorothy Garlock

Narrated by: Catherine Byers

Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1890, the rough western town of Whiskey Bend, Colorado, is no place for single women. The final straw for widow Pearl Parsons and young schoolteacher Hallie Wolcott is the assault on their friend Mary. Desperately fleeing from the attacker, the three women drive away in an open wagon, seeking new lives and safety. When they're caught in a... 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

May the Road Rise Up to Meet You

By: Peter Troy

Narrated by: various narrators, Allyson Johnson, John Keatin...

Length: 16 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Four unique voices, two parallel love stories, one sweeping novel rich in the history of nineteenth-century America. This remarkable debut draws from the great themes of literature—famine, war, love, and family—as it introduces four unforgettable characters.Ethan McOwen is an Irish immigrant whose endurance is tested in Brooklyn and the Five... Read more

Minerva

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Charlotte Anne Dore

Length: 6 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Minerva marks the delightful debut of the Six Sisters series, a family saga in six volumes that recounts the romantic adventures of the six marriageable daughters of a country vicar, the Reverend Charles Armitage, in Regency England.The eldest, Minerva, is enchantingly beautiful—but a prude. She lives in the country looking after her siblings... Read more

Miss Tonks Turns to Crime

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Davina Porter

Length: 4 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

The oddly assorted group met some time ago. All of them were poor relations, the genteel paupers of society, living on little more than their dignity. They banded together and started the Poor Relation hotel, hoping to be bought out by their embarrassed relations. Though as the hotel prospered, they began to enjoy the fruits of their labor. But... Read more

Mrs. Budley Falls from Grace

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Davina Porter

Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

The loveable characters from the Poor Relation Hotel return in this sparkling and adventurous Regency romance from M. C. Beaton.Eliza Budley is a beautiful widow whose husband gambled away his fortune. So when the poor relations need to acquire some valuables to keep the hotel afloat and Eliza draws the short straw, Lady Fortescue reminds the... Read more

On Board the Titanic

By: Shelley Tanaka

Narrated by: Terry Bregy

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Travel back in time to the fateful maiden voyage of the majestic Titanic in this compelling narrative. Told through the eyes of two young survivors, seventeen-year-old Jack Thayer and twenty-two-year-old Harold Bride, this thrilling account vividly recreates the night the world's most famous passenger ship sank to the bottom of the icy Atlantic. Read more

Oscar Wilde and a Death of No Importance

By: Gyles Brandreth

Narrated by: Bill Wallis

Length: 10 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

London, 1889. Oscar Wilde, celebrated poet, wit, playwright, and raconteur is the literary sensation of his age. All Europe lies at his feet. Yet when he chances across the naked corpse of sixteen-year-old Billy Wood, posed by candlelight in a dark stifling attic room, he cannot ignore the brutal murder. With the help of fellow author Arthur... Read more

Oscar Wilde and a Game Called Murder

By: Gyles Brandreth

Narrated by: Bill Wallis

Length: 11 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

I see murder in this unhappy hand... When Mrs. Robinson, palmist to the Prince of Wales, reads Oscar Wilde's hand, she cannot know what she has predicted. Nor can Oscar know what he has set in motion when, that same evening, he proposes a game of "murder" in which each of his Sunday Supper Club guests must write down those whom they would like... Read more

Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile

By: Gyles Brandreth

Narrated by: Bill Wallis

Length: 11 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Paris, 1883. Oscar Wilde, aged twenty-seven, has come to the city of decadence to discover its charms, to rekindle his friendship with the divine Sarah Bernhardt, and to collaborate with France's most celebrated actor-manager, Edmond La Grange. Oscar discovers dark secrets lying at the heart of the La Grange company, and is confronted by murders... Read more

Our Lady of Pain

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Davina Porter

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Lady Rose Summer, the wayward Edwardian debutante who keeps getting mixed up in disreputable adventures, would swear she is not a jealous woman. After all, she knows her engagement to private detective Captain Harry Cathcart is only a ploy to keep her parents from shipping her off to India. But then Harry’s latest client, Dolores Duval—a vision... Read more

Refining Felicity

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 4 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

When Amy and Effy Tribble, two charming but impoverished spinster sisters, lose out on a much needed inheritance, they place an advertisement in the Morning Post and hire themselves out as professional chaperones. Vowing to prepare even the most difficult misses for marriage, the Tribble sisters will spend a London season on each client in this... Read more

Sir Philip’s Folly

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Davina Porter

Length: 4 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Just when everything at the Poor Relation Hotel seems to be running smoothly, Sir Philip brings in another poor relation, Mrs. Budge. When Sir Philip presents his paramour, Lady Fortescue swears great oaths and says the woman is probably related to half the costermongers in London and certainly does not possess one rich relative. Mrs. Budge does... Read more

Snobbery with Violence

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Davina Porter

Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

In this delightful mystery from the New York Times bestselling author M. C. Beaton imagine if the rebellious sister from Downton Abbey and her maid got mixed up in murderWhen a marriage proposal appears imminent for the beautiful—if rebellious—Lady Rose Summer, her father wants to know if her suitor’s intentions are honorable. He calls on... Read more

Souvenir

By: James R. Benn

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 12 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Secrets trail an American soldier from his Depression upbringing to the cold winter battles in the Ardennes Forest in the last months of World War II and through the postwar decades, as he struggles to keep his family from being torn apart while keeping the truth buried close to his heart. Clay Brock, proprietor of Jake's Tavern, has endured... Read more

Stringer and the Border War

By: Lou Cameron

Narrated by: Barry Press

Length: 5 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Only Pancho Villa, king of bandits, is gutsy enough to make war on Terrazas the Tyrant. And only Villa would sell tickets to one of his massacres. A curious mob settles along the Rio Grande, waiting for a bloodbath. They don't know that they've wasted their two bits on a phony war. Only one man is wise to Villa's crafty fake—Stringer MacKail.... Read more

Stringer and the Deadly Flood

By: Lou Cameron

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Everyone knows that Salton's Sink is the driest patch of greasewood in the whole damned Colorado Desert. So when a slick land syndicate promises cheap water to a pack of greenhorn settlers, Stringer is more than a mite suspicious. One booze-thirsty engineer knows the truth about International Irrigation, but he's six feet under with a chest full... Read more

Stringer and the Hanging Judge

By: Lou Cameron

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 5 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

They say Judge Roy Bean has been up to some legal tomfoolery again. And it's MacKail's job to get the scoop on the infamous "hanging judge." But someone is out to stop Stringer—dead. Now it could be old Bean and some of his boys. Or maybe it's just another Lone Star gunslick with too much nerve and too little smarts. The only thing MacKail knows... Read more

Stringer and the Hell-Bound Herd

By: Lou Cameron

Narrated by: Barry Press

Length: 6 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

When freight trains conquered the West, the big, dusty drives of beef on the hoof became just a colorful piece of cowboy nostalgia. So when a cattle baron called C. J. Tarington aims to punch a thousand plus head through the unforgiving heat and sage of the Great Basin, some say he's a mite simple—or crazy—or both. Stringer thinks it's something... Read more

Stringer and the Lost Tribe

By: Lou Cameron

Narrated by: Barry Press

Length: 5 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

When miners dig up the Yana Indians' sacred burial ground, the tribe goes on the warpath. And after a couple of deputy sheriffs are found with so many arrows sticking out of them they look like porcupines, the miners grab their guns and axes. Even a little Indian war is big news in the fading days of the wild West, so Stringer rides out to... Read more

Stringer and the Oil Well Indians

By: Lou Cameron

Narrated by: Barry Press

Length: 5 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Usually it takes Stringer a little while to rile folks in a new town. But no sooner does he step off the train in Tulsa than some sidewinder is doing his best to turn Stringer into yesterday's news. The hot story in Tulsa is the oil boom. It seems you can't dig a grave without hitting black gold. And Stringer's there to write the story. But... Read more

Stringer and the Wild Bunch

By: Lou Cameron

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 5 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The train robbery was bad. It cost Stringer thirty dollars. But when the Wild Bunch gives MacKail a .45 caliber invite to hear their side of what a nice bunch of boys they really are, it’s an offer he can’t refuse. After all, they’re all mothers’ sons, even if they would cut a man’s throat for his boots. Even so, when Stringer decides to ride... Read more

Stringer in Tombstone

By: Lou Cameron

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 5 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The way Stringer sees it, some cuss hard up for a laugh planted that news tip about Tombstone being flooded because that dusty town is about as dry as they come. But Stringer sure as hell ain't laughing when his newspaper boss sends him to Arizona to root out the truth. And the fast gun that's trying to kill him ain't kidding. And neither are... Read more

Stringer on Pikes Peak

By: Lou Cameron

Narrated by: Barry Press

Length: 5 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Even a newspaperman with Stringer MacKail's brand of courage knows you can't cover a stalemated miners' strike without getting on somebody's fightin' side. But that won't stop Stringer from trying to get some ink on the gold miners' sit-down out in Cripple Creek. Unfortunately, the only word he's heard so far is vamoose. Seems the Mine Owners'... Read more