Historical Fiction audiobooks

Princess in Love

By: Julianne MacLean

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Leopold Hunt, Marquess of Cavanaugh, is a secret Royalist with a distant hereditary claim to the throne. He has been groomed to one day overthrow the king and rebuild his family's dynasty. Only one thing stands in his way: the king's daughter, Rose.

Princess Rose has loved the marquess her entire life, but she is about to enter a political... Read more

A Dream Unfolding

By: Karen Baney

Narrated by: Sergei Burbank

Length: 12 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

The promise of a new life and a chance to start over… Hannah Anderson had the life she always wanted, married to the man of her dreams. When her husband's brother gets in trouble with the law, the town turns against them, shattering her perfect life. Now they are left with only one choice—to head west to the Arizona Territory in the hopes of... Read more

Man in the Blue Moon

By: Michael Morris

Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte

Length: 12 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

An incisive novelist in the Southern tradition, Michael Morris has garnered comparisons to Harper Lee and Flannery O'Connor. Set during the tumult of World War I, Man in the Blue Moon follows Ella Wallace, a single mother fighting a corrupt banker to keep her family's ancestral land. So when a mysterious man arrives on her doorstep with promises... Read more

The Man on the Third Floor

By: Anne Bernays

Narrated by: Paul Michael

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Walter Samson is a successful book editor in post–World War II New York. He has more than enough money, an interesting wife, two smart children, and reason to believe he's leading the good American life—until a chance meeting with Barry Rogers. Barry is blue-collar, handsome, single, and poor.Walter is instantly drawn to Barry and, despite the... Read more

Victory at Yorktown

By: Newt Gingrich & William R. Forstchen

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 12 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling authors Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen pen the triumphant conclusion to their George Washington series-a novel of leadership, brotherhood, loyalty, and the victory of the American Revolutionary cause.

1781. After three years in a bitter stalemate, General Washington decides to embark on one of the most audacious... Read more

She Loves Me Not

By: Ron Hansen

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Ron Hansen has long been a master of the short form. His stories have been called 'beautifully crafted' (The New York Times), 'unforgettable' (San Francisco Chronicle), and 'diverse and expansive' (The Washington Post). Ranging over subjects as diverse as Oscar Wilde, murder, dementia, and romance, this collection shows Ron Hansen at his... Read more

Betrayal

By: Robin Lee Hatcher

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

It’s the turn of the twentieth century and drifter Hugh Brennan is a man well acquainted with betrayal. Hugh finds himself drawn to the attractive widow, Julia, yet when he looks into her eyes, he recognizes the same hurt that haunts him. Julia Grace has little reason to trust men, but she’s going to have to trust someone if she’s to keep her... Read more

Sweet Tooth

By: Ian McEwan

Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson

Length: 12 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of such prestigious honors as the Booker Prize and Whitbread Award, Ian McEwan is justifiably regarded as a modern master. Set in 1972, Sweet Tooth follows Cambridge student Serena Frome, whose intelligence and beauty land her a job with England's intelligence agency, MI5. In an attempt to monitor writers' politics, MI5 tasks Serena with... Read more

A Christmas Carol

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Ralph Cosham

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Marley was dead, to begin with...' And yet, he manages to visit his old partner, the miser Ebenezer Scrooge, and send him on a transformative journey, led by three ghosts. First to his own past, where he sees again the love he spurned, then to the present, where he sees those around him going about their holiday preparations, and then into his... 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

Stringer on the Mojave

By: Lou Cameron

Narrated by: Barry Press

Length: 5 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Dead men don't tell tales. Neither do dead women or children. And when their corpses have been dryin' out in the desert sun for fifty years, there's nary a whisper left of what happened. So when the six Mojave mummies are found near Esperanza, it's up to Stringer to get the story. But someone in Esperanza wants him to just plain git.First,... 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

Wilderness

By: Lance Weller

Narrated by: Richard Poe

Length: 10 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Having earned his writing chops as an award-winning author of short fiction, Lance Weller delivers an unforgettable novel set in post-Civil War America. Abel Truman, maimed at the Battle of the Wilderness and beset with old age, lives on the rugged coast of Washington State. Resolving to attend to personal matters set in motion long ago, Truman... Read more

The Secret Keeper

By: Sandra Byrd

Narrated by: Elizabeth Jasicki

Length: 11 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Christy Award finalist Sandra Byrd has drawn favorable comparisons to New York Times best-selling author Philippa Gregory for her Ladies in Waiting novels. The second installment in the series transports listeners to King Henry VIII's court for a tale of intrigue featuring Henry's last wife, Kateryn Parr. Read more

The Secret Daughter

By: Catherine King

Narrated by: Maggie Mash

Length: 13 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

A gripping, gritty novel set during the run-up to the launch of Titanic - published in time for its 100th anniversary year

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Loss
Phyllis Kimber's entire future is called into question after her father is killed in Earl Redfern's employ. But the earl knows something about Phyllis that means she will always be... Read more

Catilina’s Riddle

By: Steven Saylor

Narrated by: Scott Harrison

Length: 18 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

The year is 63 BC, and Gordianus the Finder unexpectedly achieves the dream of every Roman: owning a farm in the Etruscan countryside. Vowing to leave behind the corruption of Rome, he abandons the city, taking his family with him. This bucolic life, however, is disrupted by the machinations and murderous plots of two politicians.When Gordianus'... Read more

The City of Shadows

By: Michael Russell

Narrated by: Conor Delaney

Length: 12 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

An evocative debut crime novel, set between Dublin and Danzig in the 1930s – linking the church, an illegal abortionist, the Nazi Party and a missing woman… Detective Stefan Gillespie arrest Herr Keller under suspicion of carrying out illegal abortions and encounters Hannah Rosen desperately trying to find her friend Susan,... Read more

Her Highness and the Highlander

By: Tracy Anne Warren

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York Times
bestselling author Tracy Anne Warren comes the second novel in an
enchanting new trilogy about three princesses brought together by
friendship and fate on their way to finding true love. This is Princess
Mercedes's story . . .
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The Angel of Darkness

By: Caleb Carr

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 25 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Angel Of Darkness, Caleb Carr brings back the vivid world of his bestselling The Alienist but with a twist: this story is told by the former street urchin Stevie Taggert, whose rough life has given him wisdom beyond his years. Thus New York City, and the groundbreaking alienist Dr. Kreizler himself, are seen anew.
It is June 1897. A year... Read more

Countess So Shameless

By: Liana LeFey

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

No one can compete for Lady Mélisande’s coveted affections like the Italian rogue she met five years prior during a visit to Versailles. Her encounter with Lord Alessandro Orsini awakened a passion so fierce that the mere memory of it still ignites her senses. So when the celebrated rake resurfaces in London, Mélisande succumbs to temptation and... Read more

Make Believe

By: Ed Ifkovic

Narrated by: Christine Williams

Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

"Others find peace of mind in pretending. Couldn't you? Couldn't I?"—from the song "Make Believe," by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II for the musicalShow BoatIn June 1951, Edna Ferber heads to Hollywood to support an old friend, Max, who has found himself blacklisted in the McCarthy anti-Communist hearings, which have rattled Hollywood with... Read more

The Alienist

By: Caleb Carr

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 20 hours

Abridged: No

A new breed of evil in Old New York

New York, 1886: Lower Manhattan's underworld is ruled by a new generation of cold-blooded criminals...Police Commissioner Theodore Roosevelt battles widespread corruption within the department's ranks...and a shockingly brutal murder sets off an investigation that could change crime-fighting forever.

In the... Read more

The Prodigal Son

By: Colleen McCullough

Narrated by: Charles Leggett

Length: 12 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

When Chubb University biochemist Millie Hunter notices that a deadly neurotoxin is missing from her laboratory refrigerator, she immediately goes to her father, who is also CT's Chief Medical Examiner. They both know that the situation is grave; the poison shuts down the nervous system and is virtually impossible to stop. Soon, as bodies pile up... Read more

Untamed Highlander

By: Donna Grant

Narrated by: Antony Ferguson

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Druid-born and magic-blessed, Isla is one of the deadliest she-devils ever to serve the forces of darkness. As an immortal Highland warrior, it's up to Hayden Campbell to destroy her and her kind. But for Hayden, Isla is more than a sworn enemy. She is temptation.

Taking Isla captive, Hayden hopes to avenge his kinsmen who died by Druid magic.... Read more