Historical Fiction audiobooks

Fire Song - Abridged

By: Catherine Coulter

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 5 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Coulter's medieval melody continues—second in the song series.Lord Graelam de Moreton is willing to accept his new bride, Kassia, as she appears—innocent and guileless. But appearances can be deceiving…. Read more

The Melancholy Countess

By: Frank Tallis

Narrated by: Robert Fass

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Haunted by the sudden death of her grown son, Countess Zigana Nadazdy-Hauke is as unhappy as she is elegant. But is she miserable enough to drown herself in the bath? That’s the conventional wisdom in Vienna. But Rheinhardt and Liebermann have another idea after meeting the poor soul’s much younger widower: Oktav Hauke is handsome and dashing,... Read more

Beatrice Goes to Brighton

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Helen Lisanti

Length: 5 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Join matchmaker Miss Hannah Pym for a romantic seaside adventure in the delightful fourth installment in the Traveling Matchmaker seriesA dead employer’s legacy of five thousand pounds has allowed charming spinster Hannah Pym to give up her housekeeping work and to travel the English countryside, where she encounters adventure and many... Read more

Not My Blood

By: Barbara Cleverly

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 10 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Scotland Yard Detective Joe Sandilands is caught off guard one night in 1933 by a phone call from a distressed boy named Jackie Drummond, who just might be the illegitimate son Joe never knew he had. Jackie is in trouble at his Sussex boarding school, where a teacher has been murdered. When Joe gets himself assigned to the investigation, he... Read more

Abdication

By: Juliet Nicolson

Narrated by: Carole Boyd

Length: 10 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

England, 1936. The year began with the death of a beloved king and the ascension of a charismatic young monarch, sympathetic to the needs of the working class, glamorous, and single. By year's end, the world would be stunned as it witnessed that new leader give up his throne in the name of love, just as the unrest and violence that would result... 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

With Every Letter

By: Sarah Sundin

Narrated by: Kate Rudd

Length: 12 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Lt. Mellie Blake is looking forward to beginning her training as a flight nurse. She is not looking forward to writing a letter to a man she’s never met — even if it is anonymous and part of a morale-building program. Lt. Tom MacGilliver, an officer stationed in North Africa, welcomes the idea of an anonymous correspondence — he’s been trying to... 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

Penelope Goes to Portsmouth

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Helen Lisanti

Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

A dead employer’s legacy of five thousand pounds has allowed spinster Hannah Pym to resign from housekeeping and find adventure traveling the English countryside by coach. But adventure soon finds Miss Pym in the form of runaway brides, spirited heiresses, and international refugees, who give her an opportunity to test her expert matchmaking... Read more

Heir of Novron

By: Michael J. Sullivan

Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds

Length: 31 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

The New Empire intends to mark its victory over the Nationalists with a bloody celebration. On the high holiday of Wintertide, the Witch of Melengar will be burned and the Heir of Novron executed. On that same day the Empress faces a forced marriage, with a fatal accident soon to follow. The New Empire is confident in the totality of its triumph... Read more

The Midwife of Venice

By: Roberta Rich

Narrated by: Antoinette LaVecchia

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Hannah Levi is renowned throughout Venice for her gift at coaxing reluctant babies from their mothers-- a gift aided by the secret " birthing spoons" she designed. But when a count implores her to attend to his wife, who has been laboring for days to give birth to their firstborn son, Hannah is torn. A Papal edict forbids Jews from rendering... Read more

Sinner

By: Mark Teppo

Narrated by: Luke Daniels

Length: 1 hour 38 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.A severed head and a cry of “Witchcraft!” start a frenzied witchhunt in a sleepy German village. When Konrad... Read more

Freud's Sister

By: Goce Smilevski

Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat

Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

The award-winning international sensation that poses the question: Was Sigmund Freud responsible for the death of his sister in a Nazi concentration camp?

The boy in her memories who strokes her with the apple, who whispers to her the fairy tale, who gives her the knife, is her brother Sigmund.

Vienna, 1938: With the Nazis closing in, Sigmund... Read more

Starry Montana Sky

By: Debra Holland

Narrated by: Natalie Ross

Length: 9 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Since her husband’s death, Samantha Sawyers Rodriguez and her son have been little more than prisoners on her father-in-law’s estate in 1890s Argentina. Now, thanks to her late uncle, she has an inheritance—a Montana ranch that she plans to transform into a sanctuary for orphaned boys while raising her family’s miniature horses. Not... Read more

Wild Montana Sky

By: Debra Holland

Narrated by: Natalie Ross

Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Since her husband’s death, Samantha Sawyers Rodriguez and her son have been little more than prisoners on her father-in-law’s estate in 1890s Argentina. Now, thanks to her late uncle, she has an inheritance—a Montana ranch that she plans to transform into a sanctuary for orphaned boys while raising her family’s miniature horses. Not... Read more

Flame of Resistance

By: Tracy Groot

Narrated by: Carine Montbertrand

Length: 12 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Christy Award-winner Tracy Groot delivers affecting novels marked by the grace and splendor of her storytelling. A retelling of the Old Testament tale of Rahab the harlot, Flame of Resistance takes place in Nazi-occupied France. After American fighter pilot Tom Jaeger is shot down and harbored by the French Resistance, he figures prominently in... Read more

An Unsuitable Bride

By: Jane Feather

Narrated by: Jill Tanner

Length: 13 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

With more than 10 million copies of her books in print, New York Times best-selling author Jane Feather is one of the biggest names in historical romance. The third novel in the Blackwater Brides trilogy finds comely Alexandra Douglas in London, reeling from news of her father's death-and of her disinheritance. Posing as a librarian, Alex... Read more

By Starlight

By: Dorothy Garlock

Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

With violence threatening to shatter their world, Maddy and Jack have only one chance to rekindle their love and trust for each other, one chance to claim a future together.
Colton, Montana, 1931. Struggling through the Great Depression, Maddy Aldridge agrees to run an illegal speakeasy in order to save her family's mercantile store. Keeping... Read more

The Map of Lost Memories

By: Kim Fay

Narrated by: Karyn O'Bryant

Length: 12 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Edgar Award Finalist for Best First Novel by an American Author
 
“Captivating . . . has qualities any reader would wish for: adventure, romance, history and a vividly described exotic setting.”—The Washington Post
 
In 1925 the international treasure-hunting scene is a man’s world, and no one understands this better than Irene Blum, who is... Read more

The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser, Isla Blair & Simon Vance

Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Hercule Poirot is joined by the mysterious problem solver Harley Quin in the pages of The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories—a collection of ingenious short masterworks of mystery and suspense that showcase the legendary Agatha Christie at her very best.A grand treasure for fans of the grande dame of mystery, The Harlequin Tea Set and Other... Read more

The Bartender's Tale

By: Ivan Doig

Narrated by: David Aaron Baker

Length: 14 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A national bestseller, the story of “a boy’s last days of youth and a history his father can’t leave behind” (The Daily Beast).Tom Harry has a streak of frost in his black pompadour and a venerable bar called The Medicine Lodge, the chief watering hole and last refuge in the town of Gros Ventre, in northern Montana. Tom also has a son named... Read more

The Double Game

By: Dan Fesperman

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 12 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

A few years before the fall of the Berlin Wall, spook-turned-novelist Edwin Lemaster revealed to up-and-coming journalist Bill Cage that he’d once considered spying for the enemy. For Cage, a Foreign Service brat who grew up in the very cities where Lemaster’s books were set, the news story created a brief but embarrassing sensation and heralded... Read more

In the Land of the Long White Cloud

By: Sarah Lark

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 22 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Helen Davenport, governess for a wealthy London household, longs for a family of her own—but nearing her late twenties, she knows her prospects are dim. Then she spots an advertisement seeking young women to marry New Zealand’s honorable bachelors and begins an affectionate correspondence with a gentleman farmer. When her church offers to pay... Read more

Avenger of Rome

By: Douglas Jackson

Narrated by: Cornelius Garrett

Length: 11 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

If you like Simon Scarrow and Ben Kane, you'll absolutely love this enthralling and action-packed novel of Roman adventure from bestselling author Douglas Jackson.

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