Historical Fiction audiobooks

A Warrior's Heart

By: Donna Grant

Narrated by: Antony Ferguson

Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

There are those who would love to rid themselves of painful memories, to forget nasty pasts and mistakes. They think it's hell to live with those memories. Gabriel thinks it's hell to live without them. He has no memories of his past, his friends or family.



Gabriel owes his life to the Fae who discovered him bleeding and nearly dead at their... Read more

The Chieftain

By: Margaret Mallory

Narrated by: Derek Perkins

Length: 9 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Connor, chieftain of the MacDonalds of Sleat, holds the fate of his people in his hands. Rival clans are plotting to take over his lands, and duty determines whom he will fight, trust . . . even marry. Seeking guidance, Connor turns to Ilysa, a young lass with the gift of foresight, who reveals an approaching danger—and a passion that burns only... Read more

To Wed a Highlander

By: Michele Sinclair

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 11 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Makenna Dunstan has never needed a man's protection before. But when her father's failing health places the safety of the clan in her hands, she has no choice but to marry Colin McTiernay. Fearing the emotions Colin awakens within her, she finds herself succumbing too easily to his lingering kisses and warm caresses. Yet she wonders if she can... Read more

The Merlin Prophecy Book Two

By: M.K. Hume

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: 18 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

DEATH OF AN EMPIRE-- THE LEGEND OF MERLIN CONTINUES Merlin is the product of a brutal rape. Determined to uncover his father' s identity, he sets sail from Celtic Britain with his band of loyal companions. Their journey through war-ravaged France, Rome, and Ravenna to Constantinople will push their strength to the limit and shape Merlin' s... Read more

The Seventh Gate

By: Richard Zimler

Narrated by: Gabrielle de Cuir & Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 25 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

By the author of the critically acclaimed international hits The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon and The Warsaw Anagrams, this novel proves Richard Zimler's mastery of the "riveting literary murder mystery" (Independent on Sunday).Berlin, 1932. Sophie is a smart and sexually precocious fourteen-year-old coming of age during Hitler's rise to power.... Read more

Arena

By: Simon Scarrow & T. J. Andrews

Narrated by: David Thorpe

Length: 15 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

ARENA is a Sunday Times bestselling novel from Simon Scarrow, author of INVICTUS, CENTURION and THE GLADIATOR, and T.J. Andrews. Perfect for fans of Bernard Cornwell. Praise for Simon Scarrow's gripping novels: 'Ferocious and compelling' Daily Express

It is AD 41. The city of Rome is a dangerous place.

Optio Macro of the Second Legion, recently... Read more

Havana Lost

By: Libby Fischer Hellmann

Narrated by: Diane Piron Gelman & James Lewis

Length: 11 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

On the eve of the Cuban Revolution, headstrong 18-year-old Francesca Pacelli flees from her ruthless Mafia-boss father in Havana to the arms of her lover, a rebel fighting with Fidel Castro. Her father, desperate to send her to safety in the US, resorts to torture and blackmail as he searches the island for her.So begins the first part of a... Read more

Intimate Surrender

By: Laura Landon

Narrated by: Sarah Coomes

Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

The bewitchingly beautiful Hannah Bartlett never meant to fall in love, and certainly not with a vicar. But when she meets Vicar Rafe Waterford, she discovers a warmth and tenderness she’s searched for her entire life. Not until it’s too late does she realize that Rafe holds more than the key to her heart; he possesses the power to destroy... Read more

Scissors

By: Stéphane Michaka

Narrated by: various narrators, Lloyd James, Kathe Mazur, Sc...

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Based on the life of the great short-story writer Raymond Carver, particularly his last ten, postalcoholic years, Scissors is that rare thing: a funny, compassionate, and convincing portrayal of the creative life—its compulsions, its rewards, its frustrations, its affinities with tragedy.Raymond is a writer whose life is fraught with personal... Read more

Dancer, Daughter, Traitor, Spy

By: Elizabeth Kiem

Narrated by: Angela Brazil

Length: 7 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Marina is born of privilege. Her mother, Sveta, is the Soviet Union's prima ballerina: an international star handpicked by the regime. But Sveta is afflicted with a mysterious second sight and becomes obsessed with exposing a horrific state secret. Then she disappears. Fearing for their lives, Marina and her father defect to Brooklyn. Marina... Read more

Winds of Salem

By: Melissa de la Cruz

Narrated by: Katie Schorr

Length: 8 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Freya Beauchamp has been kidnapped and sucked into the past, forced to relive the horrors of Salem and return to the witch-burning hysteria that gripped the small Massachusetts town. Freya's family is determined to save her, but the Passages of Time are closed to the Beauchamp family, leaving them stuck in the present. Joanna, Freddie, and... Read more

The Stolen Crown

By: Susan Higginbotham

Narrated by: Alison Larkin & John Lee

Length: 13 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Katherine Woodville's sister never gave her a choice. A happy girl of modest means, Kate hardly expected to become a maker of kings. But when her sister impulsively marries King Edward IV in secret, Katherine's life is no longer hers to control . . . Read more

The River of No Return

By: Bee Ridgeway

Narrated by: Samuel Roukin

Length: 18 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Bee Ridgway's wildly inventive debut novel, The River of No Return, blends romance, conspiracy, and time travel for a tale sure to intrigue listeners. When soldier and aristocrat Nick Falcott is sent from a Napoleonic battlefield in 1815 to modern-day London, he never expects to go back--until the Guild calls for him. Returning home as if from... Read more

Incident at Gunn Point

By: Ralph Cotton

Narrated by: Brian Hutchison

Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Horse trader Will Summers wasn' t looking to be anybody' s hero, let alone stop a bank robbery led by the son of Gunn Point' s most powerful man. He' d rather hit the trail than try to take on the rest of the robbers, who are hell-bent on skinning his hide. But when the local sheriff is injured and his deputy outmatched, Will knows that things... Read more

The Long Hunt

By: Cameron Judd

Narrated by: James Jenner

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

When Deborah Bledsoe's father hears that his daughter may still be alive after being abducted by Cherokee raiders, he hires Crawford Flynn to find her, not knowing that Flynn's tracking skills have been exaggerated. The better bet is Flynn's son Simeon, who actually has the ability to track Deborah through the wilds of the vast, untamed West... Read more

The Crooked Maid

By: Dan Vyleta

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 15 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Graham Greene meets Dostoevsky in a thrilling and atmospheric story of guilt and restitution set in postwar Vienna.Vienna, 1948. The war is over, and as the initial phase of de-Nazification winds down, the citizens of Vienna struggle to rebuild their lives amid the rubble.Anna Beer returns to the city she fled nine years earlier after... Read more

The Crown Tower

By: Michael J. Sullivan

Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds

Length: 12 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Two men who hate each other. One impossible mission. A legend in the making.Hadrian Blackwater, a warrior with nothing to fight for, is paired with Royce Melborn, a thieving assassin with nothing to lose. Hired by an old wizard, they must steal a treasure that no one can reach. The Crown Tower is the impregnable remains of the grandest fortress... Read more

Firebrand

By: Elizabeth Fremantle

Narrated by: Georgina Sutton

Length: 14 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The basis for the major motion picture Firebrand—which reveals the tumultuous darker side to the marriages of the notorious King of England, Henry VIII, and the wife who survived.

“Smart, sensual, and suspenseful as a thriller, this is a must-read for Philippa Gregory fans.” —People

Widowed for the second time at age thirty-one, Katherine Parr... Read more

The Rathbones

By: Janice Clark

Narrated by: Erin Spencer, Cassandra Campbell, Malcolm Campb...

Length: 14 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

A gothic, literary adventure set in New England, Janice Clark's haunting debut chronicles one hundred years of a once prosperous and now crumbling whaling family, told by its last surviving member.

Mercy Rathbone, fifteen years old, is the diminutive scion of the Rathbone clan. Her father, the last in the beleaguered dynasty, has been lost at sea... Read more

Highlander Betrayed

By: Laurin Wittig

Narrated by: Phil Gigante

Length: 9 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Hidden deep in the rugged Scottish Highlands lies the Highland Targe, an ancient relic guarded for centuries by clan MacAlpin. It is said the Targe can shield the heart of the Highlands from invaders and now, as part of his plan to crush the Scottish rebellion, the English king wants the Targe for himself…Rowan MacGregor, orphaned niece to the... Read more

Snow Hunters

By: Paul Yoon

Narrated by: Paul Yoon

Length: 3 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the Young Lions Fiction Award, Snow Hunters is “a subtle, elegant, poignant read” (Oprah.com), featuring a Korean War refugee who emigrates to Brazil to become a tailor’s apprentice and confronts the wreckage of his past.

“Exquisitely enigmatic…a small but radiant star in the current literary firmament” (The Dallas Morning News), Snow... Read more

Under a Texas Sky

By: Dorothy Garlock

Narrated by: Kristin Kalbli

Length: 9 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Growing up poor and largely abandoned on the streets of 1920s Chicago, Anna Finnegan has struggled her entire life. Until a talent manager discovers her and brings her into the world of theater. Now years later she's about to start shooting her first movie. Arriving on location in Redstone, Texas, in 1932, Anna steps off the train and collides... Read more

The Purchase

By: Linda Spalding

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

In this provocative and starkly beautiful historical novel, a Quaker family moves from Pennsylvania to the Virginia frontier, where slaves are the only available workers and where the family' s values and beliefs are sorely tested. In 1798, Daniel Dickinson, recently widowed and shunned by his fellow Quakers when he marries his young servant... Read more

Spring Awakening

By: T. J. Brown

Narrated by: Sarah Coomes

Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

The laughter of summer lawn parties fades for the men and women of Summerset Abbey, as the rumble of cannon-fire sweeps across Europe. In a changing world, they soon find that only one thing is certain: none of them will ever be the same.Rowena BuxtonThe female pilot’s upcoming wedding to Sebastian Billingsly is the talk of society. Rowena loves... Read more