Historical Fiction audiobooks

Taming the Wild Highlander

By: Terry Spear

Narrated by: Borah Coburn

Length: 6 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Edana Chattan senses concerns where people she knows could be in danger. When her brothers warn her they're in trouble, she can't convince her father to listen to her, so with an escort, she tries to locate them. Separated from her escort during a storm, she is discovered by Angus MacNeill, who is tasked to return her home. Only Edana has other... Read more

Always in my Heart

By: Ellie Dean

Narrated by: Julie Maisey

Length: 11 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

As the Japanese begin their assault on Singapore, Sarah Fuller is forced to leave her parents and fiancé, Philip, behind. The long journey to England is fraught with danger, and Sarah and her sister Jane don’t even know if their great-aunt is alive, let alone waiting for them.

They arrive in Cliffehaven, on the south coast of England, and here... Read more

Lady Caroline and the Egotistical Earl

By: Terry Spear

Narrated by: Maria Hunter Welles

Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Lady Caroline has one mission in mind, helping her mother maintain their estates after her father's death, while knights posing as the earl's men continue to kill their livestock. But as soon as her mother wishes the earl's intervention, Caroline has a new problem - the earl is intrigued with her and wants her to reside at his castle and serve... Read more

Altdorf

By: J. K. Swift

Narrated by: Brad Wills

Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

A druid priestess enlists the help of an ex-Hospitaller warrior and a charismatic outlaw to fight Austrian tyranny in medieval Switzerland. A subtle blend of fantasy and history, Altdorf tells the events leading up to one of the greatest underdog stories of the medieval age, the Battle of Morgarten.At the end of the thirteenth century, five... Read more

A Rake's Midnight Kiss

By: Anna Campbell

Narrated by: Antony Ferguson

Length: 11 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Brilliant scholar Genevieve Barrett's secret identity as the author of her father's articles is her greatest deception—until her father's handsome new student arrives on their doorstep. Genevieve recognizes him as the masked intruder who earlier tried to steal a priceless gem from their home. Keeping the seductive stranger's identity hidden is a... Read more

Blind Justice

By: Anne Perry

Narrated by: Davina Porter

Length: 12 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

For a generation, Anne Perry’s New York Times bestselling novels have invited readers to explore the brilliantly seductive heart of Victorian London, where great wealth and great evil live side by side, and great men sometimes make unfortunate choices.In Perry’s stunning new novel, Hester Monk, the wife of William Monk, commander of the Thames... Read more

Black Spring

By: Alison Croggon

Narrated by: Kim Hicks

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Inspired by the gothic classic Wuthering Heights, this stunning new fantasy from the author of the Books of Pellinor is a fiercely romantic tale of betrayal and vengeance.In a savage land sustained by wizardry and ruled by vendetta, Lina is the enchanting but willful daughter of a village lord. She and her childhood companion, Damek, have grown... Read more

SideQuest Adventures

By: Mark Teppo, Angus Trim, Michael "Tinker" Pearce...

Narrated by: Luke Daniels & Mary Robinette Kowal

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

For the first time, these three stand-alone SideQuest adventures, set in the alternate history world of the popular Foreworld Saga, are collected in a single volume!The Beast of Calatrava, by Mark Teppo, is an intriguing alternate history tale in which both a battle-scarred former knight with a blood-soaked history and a monk with a mysterious... Read more

Hearts of Iron

By: Scott James Magner

Narrated by: Luke Daniels

Length: 3 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

SideQuests are stand-alone stories or novellas that chronicle the heroes, villains, and adventures in The Foreworld Saga across numerous eras and ages. They can be read in any order with or without prior knowledge of The Foreworld Saga.When The Italian Job meets the Knights of the Round Table, the ultimate medieval heist caper is born.It is the... Read more

The Arrangement

By: Mary Balogh

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 11 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

A mesmerizing story of passionate awakening and redemption, Mary Balogh’s new novel unites a war hero consigned to darkness with a remarkable woman who finds her own salvation by showing him the light of love.Desperate to escape his mother’s matchmaking, Vincent Hunt, Viscount Darleigh, flees to a remote country village. But even there, another... Read more

Scandalous Liaisons

By: Sylvia Day

Narrated by: Heather Wilds

Length: 11 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Dear Listener,In 2004, I was chosen as the Readers’ Choice winner of the Lori Foster Brava Novella Contest with my entry, “Stolen Pleasures,” which you’ll find inside this audiobook. Kensington published the winning entry in what became my debut release, Bad Boys Ahoy!Since then, Kensington and I have released eight other novels (and another... Read more

Highland Bride

By: Hannah Howell

Narrated by: Angela Dawe

Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Though she has yet to be courted by any man, spirited Gillyanne Murray decides the time has come to visit the dower lands gifted to her by her father's kinsmen. She arrives to find the small keep surrounded by three lairds, each one vying for her hand . . . and property. Though resolved to refuse them all, the threat of battle on her threshold... Read more

Defiant

By: Pamela Clare

Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith

Length: 14 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Major Connor MacKinnon despises his commander, Lord William Wentworth, beyond all other men. Ordered to rescue Wentworth's niece after the Shawnee take her captive, he expects Lady Sarah Woodville to be every bit as contemptible as her uncle. Instead, he finds a brave and beautiful lass in desperate peril. But the only way to free Sarah is for... Read more

The Eagle's Vengeance: Empire VI

By: Anthony Riches

Narrated by: Saul Reichlin

Length: 14 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

The barbarian leader Calgus defies both his barbarian captors and Britannia's legions - and Marcus Aquila - once more in the sixth thrilling novel in the Empire sequence, praised by fellow-authors Conn Iggulden, Ben Kane and Manda Scott.

The Tungrian auxiliary cohorts return to Hadrian's Wall after their successful Dacian campaign, only to find... Read more

Song of the Spirits

By: Sarah Lark

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 20 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Volume 2 in the internationally bestselling In the Land of the Long White Cloud sagaSong of the Spirits continues the soaring saga begun with In the Land of the Long White Cloud, as the founding families of colonial New Zealand experience trials and triumphs of friendship, romance, and unforgettable adventure.Elaine O’Keefe is the radiant... Read more

A Spider in the Cup

By: Barbara Cleverly

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: 12 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

At dawn one morning in 1933, an amateur dowsing team digging the banks of the Thames for precious metals unearths the body of a young woman with a missing toe and a priceless gold coin in her mouth. The case falls on Assistant Commissioner of Scotland Yard Joe Sandilands' turf, but he's been given another assignment—and a very high-profile one.... Read more

The Good Lord Bird (National Book Award Winner)

By: James McBride

Narrated by: Michael Boatman

Length: 14 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Now a Showtime limited series starring Ethan Hawke and Daveed Diggs

Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction

From the bestselling author of The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, Deacon King Kong (an Oprah Book Club pick) and The Color of Water comes the story of a young boy born a slave who joins John Brown’s antislavery crusade—and who... Read more

The Good Lord Bird

By: James McBride

Narrated by: Michael Boatman

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Henry Shackleford is a young slave living in the Kansas Territory in 1857, when the region is a battleground between anti- and pro-slavery forces. When John Brown, the legendary abolitionist, arrives in the area, an argument between Brown and Henry's master quickly turns violent. Henry is forced to leave town - with Brown, who believes he's a... Read more

The Girl You Left Behind

By: Jojo Moyes

Narrated by: Clare Corbett & Penny Rawlins

Length: 13 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Look out for Jojo’s new book, Paris for One and Other Stories, available now.

Another New York Times bestseller by the author of Me Before You, After You, and One Plus One—a spellbinding story of two women united in their fight for what they love most.

Jojo Moyes’s word-of-mouth bestseller, Me Before You, catapulted her to wide critical acclaim... Read more

Holy Orders

By: John Banville & Benjamin Black

Narrated by: John Keating

Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

When the body of his daughter's friend is brought to his autopsy table, Quirke is plunged into a world of corruption that takes him to the darkest corners of the Irish Church and State.

"At first they thought it was the body of a child. Later, when they got it out of the water and saw the pubic hair and the nicotine stains on the fingers, they... Read more

Sweet Thunder

By: Ivan Doig

Narrated by: Jonathan Hogan

Length: 11 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

In the winter of 1920, a quirky bequest draws Morrie Morgan back to Butte, Montana, from a year-long honeymoon with his bride, Grace. But the mansion bestowed by a former boss upon the itinerant charmer, who debuted in Doig' s bestselling The Whistling Season, promises to be less windfall than money pit. And the town itself, with its polyglot... Read more

Never Kiss a Rake

By: Anne Stuart

Narrated by: Xe Sands

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Anguished by death. Driven by revenge.Bryony Russell and her two sisters are left destitute by the disgrace and unexpected death of their father, a wealthy shipping magnate. He left a cryptic note, and Bryony is determined to find the real villain and clear her father’s name. In disguise as a servant, Bryony infiltrates the home of her father’s... Read more

The Sleeping Dictionary

By: Sujata Massey

Narrated by: Sneha Mathan

Length: 16 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

The term 'sleeping dictionary' was coined for young Indian women who slept with British men and educated them in the ways of India. Set between 1925 and the end of World War II, The Sleeping Dictionary is the story of Kamala, born to a peasant family in West Bengal, who makes her way to Calcutta of the 1930s. Haunted by a forbidden love, she is... Read more

The Highlander's Triumph

By: Eliza Knight

Narrated by: Corrie James

Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Laird Brandon Sinclair has given his life to the Scottish cause. Swearing fealty to Robert the Bruce, he will stop at nothing to see oppression end.



Lady Mariana wants nothing more than to break free of the tyrannical hold the English king has on her. When he sends her to Scotland with a message for the rebels, instead of obeying his orders, she... Read more