Historical Fiction audiobooks

Highland Angel

By: Hannah Howell

Narrated by: Angela Dawe

Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Sir Payton Murray's reputation as a lover is rivalled only by his prowess with the sword, yet it is the latter gift that has captured the interest of Kirstie MacLye. Fleeing a murderous husband who left her for dead, she vows to expose the man for the vile scoundrel that he is. She also knows it will take planning, cunning, and the help of a... Read more

The Poisoned Crown

By: Maurice Druon

Narrated by: Peter Joyce

Length: 8 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

“This is the original Game of Thrones.” George R.R. Martin. The puny, self-impotent Louis X, having caused his first wife to be murdered and his mistress exiled, becomes besotted with the lovely Clemence, his new Queen. Vacillating between self-pity and vainglory he is caught between the vaulting ambitions of proud,... Read more

All the Truth That's in Me

By: Julie Berry

Narrated by: Kathleen McInerney

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Four years ago, Judith and her best friend disappeared from their small town of Roswell Station. Two years ago, only Judith returned, permanently mutilated, reviled and ignored by those who were once her friends and family.Unable to speak, Judith lives like a ghost in her own home, silently pouring out her thoughts to the boy who’s owned her... Read more

Sword of Rome

By: Douglas Jackson

Narrated by: Cornelius Garrett

Length: 14 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

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Bestselling author Douglas Jackson expertly brings the Roman Empire to life in this brutal and bloody historical adventure. Perfect for fans of Simon Scarrow, Ben Kane and Conn Iggulden.

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"Breakneck action, vivid characters, a fresh, believable perspective, and a fabulous plot... Read more

The Drifter

By: Susan Wiggs

Narrated by: Joyce Bean

Length: 11 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

She seeks a home. He seeks redemption. What they find is each other.Leah Mundy has spent her life dashing from town to town, one step ahead of her father’s dreadful reputation. Now, she wants to create a home for herself and build a medical practice in Coupeville, a cozy village nestled amid the majestic isles and mountains of Washington... Read more

Tempting the Highlander

By: Michele Sinclair

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

When Raelynd Schellden and her sister are caught in the stables with the notorious McTiernay twins, her father sees not scandal, but opportunity. The future of his clan is uncertain, and a double engagement—even under false pretenses—will lend security to his people and protect his beloved daughters from power-mad fools.

But Raelynd's... Read more

The Wedding Gift

By: Marlen Suyapa Bodden

Narrated by: Jenna Lamia & January LaVoy

Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

When Cornelius Allen gives his daughter Clarissa's hand in marriage, he presents her with a wedding gift: the young slave she grew up with, Sarah. Sarah is also Allen's daughter and Clarissa's sister, a product of his longtime relationship with his house slave, Emmeline. When Clarissa's husband suspects that their newborn son is illegitimate,... Read more

Summer Is for Lovers

By: Jennifer McQuiston

Narrated by: Lana J. Weston

Length: 12 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

His heart is unavailable. Luckily, her interest lies in the rest of him . . .Though she was just a girl when they first met, Caroline Tolbertson's infatuation with David Cameron remains undimmed. Now fate has brought the handsome Scotsman back to Brighton for what promises to be an unforgettable summer. Soon, Caroline will have to choose a... Read more

Destiny's Surrender

By: Beverly Jenkins

Narrated by: Thomas Penny

Length: 7 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

The child he didn't know he had . . .Andrew Yates has come to a decision: it's time to stopsowing those oats and start a family. But searchingfor a bride isn't as simple as he'd hoped, and many ofthe respectable women of his acquaintance feel . . .lacking. Then beautiful, feisty Wilhelmina ""Billie"" Wellsarrives at the family ranch with a... Read more

The Outcasts

By: Kathleen Kent

Narrated by: Ellen Archer

Length: 9 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

A taut, thrilling adventure story about buried treasure, a manhunt, and a woman determined to make a new life for herself in the old west.

It's the 19th century on the Gulf Coast, a time of opportunity and lawlessness. After escaping the Texas brothel where she'd been a virtual prisoner, Lucinda Carter heads for Middle Bayou to meet her lover,... Read more

A Man of His Own

By: Susan Wilson

Narrated by: Fred Berman, Christina Delaine, Rick Adamson & ...

Length: 9 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Rick Stanton was a promising professional baseball player with dreams of playing in the major leagues and starting a family with his young wife, Francesca, when World War II changed everything. Rick returns from the war with his body broken and his dreams shattered. But it was not just body and spirit he sacrificed for the war. He and... Read more

King's Mountain

By: Sharyn McCrumb

Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte, Julia Gibson & Rick Holmes

Length: 10 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Sharyn McCrumb is the New York Times bestselling author of the Ballad novels, which celebrate the rich history of Appalachia. An elegant saga set against the American Revolution, King' s Mountain features John Sevier and his legendary Carolina Overmountain Men, who find themselves defending their families and farms against the troops of a... Read more

What He Would Not Do

By: P. O. Dixon

Narrated by: Pearl Hewitt

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Pride and Prejudice lovers who enjoyed To Have His Cake (and Eat It Too) won't want to miss what happens next. Now that the honeymoon is over, will Darcy and Elizabeth's love for each other survive the difficult times that an unequal alliance will surely bring? Or will those who insist on tearing them apart win the battle?What Listeners Said:"I... Read more

Seven for a Secret

By: Lyndsay Faye

Narrated by: Steven Boyer

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Six months after the formation of the NYPD, its most reluctant and talented officer, Timothy Wilde, thinks himself well versed in his city's dark practices - until he learns of the gruesome underworld ruled by the 'blackbirders,' who snatch free Northerners of color, masquerade them as slaves, and sell them South to toil as plantation property.... Read more

The Circuit Rider

By: Dan Ames

Narrated by: Mikael Naramore

Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

From award-winning and international bestselling author Dan Ames comes The Circuit Rider, a fast-paced, action-packed serialized Western.In a wild land full of lawlessness and sin rides Mike Tower, a traveling preacher known as a Circuit Rider. Circuit Riders travel from town to town, offering their services to those in need. Tower is a man of... Read more

The Shogun's Daughter

By: Laura Joh Rowland

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Japan, 1704. In an elegant mansion a young woman named Tsuruhime lies on her deathbed. The death of the Shogun's daughter has immediate consequences on his regime. Faced with his own mortality and beset by troubles, he names as his heir Yoshisato, the seventeen-year-old son he only recently discovered was his. Until five months ago, Yoshisato... Read more

The Aftermath

By: Rhidian Brook

Narrated by: Leighton Pugh

Length: 9 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

1946, post-World War II Hamburg. While thousands wander the rubble, lost and homeless, Colonel Lewis Morgan, charged with overseeing the rebuilding of this devastated city and the denazification of its defeated people, is stationed in a grand house on the River Elbe. He is awaiting the arrival of his wife, Rachael—still grieving for their eldest... Read more

The Quest

By: Nelson DeMille

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 18 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

AUTHOR'S NOTE:
An earlier, shorter version of The Quest was published in paperback in 1975. In 2013, I rewrote The Quest and doubled its length, making it, I hope, a far better story than the original, without deviating from the elements that made the story so powerful and compelling when I first wrote it. In other words, what made The Quest... Read more

The Longest Ride

By: Nicholas Sparks

Narrated by: Ron McLarty & January LaVoy

Length: 13 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

From the dark days of WWII to present-day North Carolina, this New York Times bestseller shares the lives of two couples overcoming destructive secrets -- and finding joy together.

Ira Levinson is in trouble. Ninety-one years old and stranded and injured after a car crash, he struggles to retain consciousness until a blurry image materializes... Read more

The Fountain of St. James Court; or, Portrait of the Artist as an Old Woman Unab

By: Sena Jeter Naslund

Narrated by: Barbara Caruso & Cynthia Darlow

Length: 15 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

"Is it a crime to live? To create happiness for yourself through your own work?"How do writers and painters get their ideas? And what are the hard realities of such seemingly glamorous and romantic lives? In her groundbreaking new novel, New York Times bestselling author Sena Jeter Naslund explores the transformative power of art, history, and... Read more

The Big Crowd

By: Kevin Baker

Narrated by: Richard Poe

Length: 16 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Based on one of the great unsolved murders in mob history, and the rise-and-fall of a real-life hero, The Big Crowd tells the sweeping story of Charlie O' Kane. He is the American dream come to life, a poor Irish immigrant who worked his way up from beat cop to mayor of New York at the city' s dazzling, post-war zenith. Famous, powerful, and... Read more

Seven for a Secret

By: Lyndsay Faye

Narrated by: Steven Boyer

Length: 14 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

From Edgar-nominated author Lyndsay Faye comes what Gillian Flynn calls “a brilliant new mystery.”

One of The Wall Street Journal’s Ten Best Mysteries of the Year

Six months after the formation of the NYPD, its most reluctant and talented officer, Timothy Wilde, thinks himself well versed in his city’s dark practices—until he learns of the... Read more

Undone by the Duke

By: Michelle Willingham

Narrated by: Sue Pitkin

Length: 11 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Victoria has a secret…
Reclusive designer Victoria Andrews hasn’t gone outside in five years, though she yearns to escape the prison of her house. She designs sensual lingerie for the most exclusive dressmaker in London, although she has never known a man’s touch.A Duke in disguise…
Wounded and stranded in Scotland, Jonathan Nottoway, the Duke of... Read more

The Rose and the Thorn

By: Michael J. Sullivan

Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds

Length: 11 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Two thieves want answers. Riyria is born …

For more than a year Royce Melborn has tried to forget Gwen DeLancy, the woman who saved him and his partner Hadrian Blackwater from certain death.

Unable to get her out of his mind, Royce returns to Medford with Hadrian but the two receive a very different reception—Gwen refuses to see them. The victim... Read more