Victorian Romance Audio Books

For Emmy, Christmas in the poor tenements means hardship, handmade ornaments, and precious time with her mother and best friend, Reggie. But one fateful holiday, things change. Working for Miss Beatrice creates a rift between her and Reggie, and then Freddie—a wealthy suitor—offers the security Emmy desperately needs for her ill mother. Now, torn between Freddie’s offer and her love for Reggie, Emmy must choose between her heart and her dreams for a better life.
Lady Sybil Fallow, desperate for an heir after four stillbirths, secretly adopts a baby girl, Charlotte. Despite her efforts, the deception fails to mend her strained marriage. Sixteen years later, Charlotte’s estranged brother discovers the secret and blackmails Sybil, while Charlotte remains unaware of her true origins. As family secrets unravel, Sybil’s marriage falters, and Charlotte’s future is at stake. Will Charlotte learn the truth about her past, and can she find love with her childhood friend, Dwight?
When little Belva is abandoned at the workhouse, she prays her mother, Grace, will return. She also longs for her friend Hayden, who always makes her laugh. Young Hayden, desperate to find Belva, vows to reunite with her despite his crushing responsibilities at home. Grace, overwhelmed with guilt, grapples with her decision to leave Belva, convinced it was the only way to keep her safe. Join their poignant journey of redemption, reunion, and happiness in the darkest of times.
After losing her parents, young Joanna believes Bernard Woods is the solution to her problems. But when Della is born, Joanna discovers Bernard is a scoundrel and a drunkard. When his past catches up to him and Joanna finds him dead, police suspect she killed him. She takes her baby and flees into the perilous streets of Victorian London, where children are a commodity and women a convenience… When Della is torn from her arms, everything falls apart. Only her new friend, handsome street peddler Riley, offers her any hope. Can she survive the prejudice and chaos of the most notorious city of its time?
Alice Thorton is five when her parents are killed in an accident. Together with her little sisters, she is sent to live in a dismal part of London with her grandfather, but Christmas is a quiet, lonely affair in his little cottage. Alice’s only friend is Charlie Tillman, a cheerful young dockworker who  looks out for her and her sisters. But Alice’s entire world crumbles one Christmas when her grandfather has no choice but to send them away to their aunt--an aunt who dotes on the two littlest ones but wants nothing to do with Alice. Alice’s yearns to return home to her grandfather and Charlie, but with every passing Christmas, it becomes more impossible. She struggles though devastating jobs, deceitful masters, and eventual homelessness. It will take one last great miracle to bring both Charlie and Alice home in time for Christmas.
Juliette Purcell lives with her mother and brother in a tiny tenement near a market square where they scrounge for food. Her mother works incessantly, yet Juliette and her brother Reuben often go hungry. Juliette knows little joy, except for her time with Emory Hicks, a sweet street urchin. Whooping cough tears through her building and strips her mother away. Life becomes a bitter struggle, and as Juliette fights to keep herself and Reuben alive—even after losing touch with Emory—she is haunted by a feeling of being watched. When Juliette and Emory finally find each other again, the haunted feeling she feared reveals a surprising secret that changes everything.
Born in a Victorian workhouse, Daisy Parker grew up knowing little other than discipline and desperate need. It is sweet and kind Bart Parker who changes her life by marrying her, giving her everything she holds most dear: a cozy home, a beautiful baby named Fannie, and a husband who truly loves her. But smallpox takes everything from Daisy in one terrible instant. She finds herself on the streets, dragging Bart’s handcart with Fannie inside, embarking on a desperate struggle for survival. Allies are few on London’s brutal streets. Daisy will need every scrap of courage to survive—but maybe the love of a mysterious peddler with soft gray eyes can turn things back around for her…
On Christmas Eve, Dovie Ellis gives birth to a baby girl she names Christmas. Lost and afraid, Dovie flees, abandoning her child. Raised by great-grandparents, Chrissie spends her childhood frolicking in the countryside, falling in love with sweet, handsome Jonah Costigan. But when her great-grandparents die, everything changes. Chrissie is shipped to London to work in a cotton mill, and it’s not long before she’s cast out on the streets at Christmastime. Chrissie searches for her mother and yearns for Jonah, but with every Christmas that passes, hope grows more distant. Until one Christmas, everything changes…
As a parlour maid, Blanche Eplett is invisible to everyone in her life … except for Ludwig Turner, the rakishly handsome master of the house. When Ludwig’s interest in Blanche becomes something more amorous, she finds herself pregnant with his child and soon gives birth to a little girl named May. At first, Ludwig is there to care for them both. But when tragedy strikes, Blanche and May are thrown out onto the streets. Blanche will do anything to care for May, and to protect the child’s kind and loving heart – a heart that is soon enamoured by a fellow street urchin named Taylor Harris. But as poverty continues to govern their world, May and Taylor are torn apart. For both of them, life becomes empty without the other. In the poverty-thick streets of London, how will they ever find each other again? For years, May stubbornly clings to hope, praying that her faith will someday be rewarded.  ​
Sophia Morgan and Elsie Carter share a friendship that defies the rigid social class of Victorian London. Sophia is a lady; Elsie, a maid; but they’re bound together by a hardship that overcomes all obstacles. Their children, Quincy and Ada, are raised together, and their friendship grows steadily into something more. When a tragic death forces Ada and her mother onto the brutal streets of London, Ada is determined to find her way back to Quincy. But she will have to fight back against a world that considers her worthless. With a lifetime of poverty and struggle ahead of her, it is nearly impossible to keep hope alive. Yet Ada can’t stop thinking of Quincy, her true love. Surely, he is out there somewhere, looking for her…
Tilly Barton's seafaring husband, Ray, is due home any moment now. Soon, she’ll be baking gingerbread and decorating the Christmas tree with her children. But everything changes when Ray is tragically lost at sea. Tilly is now a widow with three little ones in the brutal London winter. They’re cast into a turmoil of hardship, with Tilly struggling and scraping to keep her family alive. Christmases come and go, bringing little joy. As Tilly fights to survive the harsh streets of London, she has only one hope: the light in Micah Connoly’s smile. Yet even his love can’t drown out their terrible poverty – or the uncertainty around Tilly’s legal marital status. And each year, a sinister enemy creeps closer and closer. An enemy who could take everything Tilly is fighting so hard to protect…
Young Flora didn’t ask to be born into a life of hardship and suffering. Her mother, a lady of the night, sells her to the owner of the Great Hotel as a scullery-maid, and Flora learns the value of her life: eight shillings. Life in the Great Hotel is unspeakable.  Flora works constantly, half-starved and driven by the cruel cook and malicious hotel owner. She would lose hope entirely, were it not for the sweet, gentle boy who visits the Great Hotel from time to time. Ethan Goddard is the only person in the entire world who has ever been kind to Flora, and Flora grows to love him. But when circumstances rip him from her life and plunge Flora into chaos, she is going to have to decide what she will do for that love. And if she will allow it to take her on a journey like no other…
Doxie Shaw suffers bitterly in an orphanage in Victorian London. As she struggles to survive, she tries to comfort the younger children, but her kindness quickly costs her the only home she's ever known. Thrown into the streets, Doxie's gentle heart tries to keep on loving and hoping in a world that seems bent on destroying her. Her only evidence of ever being loved is the silver spoon that was tucked into her rags when she was deserted at the orphanage. But what does it mean? Where did she and the silver spoon come from? Will she ever know who her family really is? And can she find solace in the sweetness of Owen Green's gap-toothed grin? Can he help her find the answers her heart seeks?
Abbie Hughes lives in a tiny, run-down tenement with her crippled father and younger sister. She and her sister eke out a living by selling posies and broth on the street corners. It isn’t much, but at least they aren’t starving and they have each other: in truth, their little tenement is filled with love. All that changes one fateful night when Abbie witnesses a terrible crime. Now the perpetrator is coming for her and her family, and she has no choice but to flee. Abbie is all alone in London, a desperate street waif with nowhere to turn. As the years pass, her only hope of survival is a young man with gentle eyes. But loving Robah Carter could place him—just like it has placed her family—in mortal danger… Will Abbie ever find her way back to her family and the man she loves?
Dinah Shaw has learned not to ask questions about what her mother, Ethel, does for a living. Dinah strives to keep her younger brother safe in their tiny Whitechapel tenement. There’s never enough food and their ominous landlord threatens eviction. Ethel is gone for days on end – and Dinah’s life is one of hardship and loneliness. The only bright spot in her world is Benjamin Morris, the boy who lives next door. Somehow, Benjamin never seems to lose hope. But when eviction tears the Morris family away, Dinah’s world is catapulted into darkness. A long, terrible journey lies ahead, one of endless tribulation in Dinah’s constant quest to give Ollie a better future. And in order to do that, she’ll have to make a terrible choice. A choice that would mean Benjamin is lost to her forever…
The last thing Lindy Cook wants to do is leave Yorkshire and her dear friend Titus behind. But Papa is in London for work; Mama is ill, and her two little brothers need constant care. With no resources, she has no choice but to pack the family into a stifling railway carriage and head to London in search of Papa. But Lindy can't find him. She suffers loss after loss, toiling through the intolerable life of a poor child caring for her family on the city streets. As she begins to blossom into a woman, she has only one hope left. She clings to her dream of finding Titus again. But every passing day makes her dream look more and more unlikely…
The streets of Whitechapel are a savage place to grow up, especially during the terrible winter of 1895. Born to two irresponsible, alcoholic parents, Effie Wilson is the eldest of five children—none of whom really stand a chance. Matters are made even worse when Effie’s parents disappear one day, never to return. Effie, who is only thirteen, and her brother, John, need to care for their three little sisters, but London is no place for children on their own. Scrambling to stave off starvation, Effie and John disagree once too often. Now alone with her sisters, Effie will do anything for them, but her efforts will never be enough. Her only hope rests in Willie Green, the boy with bright hazel eyes who comes and goes from Effie’s life… If only she knew when he might appear again.
Cara Cooper’s third Christmas starts out as the best she’s ever known. As the daughter of a kitchen maid, she’s just old enough to be really excited. A stranger named Edna appears and takes Cara to a beautiful house filled with toys and Christmas treats. Now kidnapped, Cara’s life is set on a collision course with tragedy. As Edna descends into madness, Cara falls from favour and ends up as a maidservant herself, taken from her real mother so long ago that she barely remembers her. One Christmas after another brings nothing but sorrow and hardship. The only hope Cara has is sweet and lovely Levi Hall, a childhood friend who slowly becomes her true love. But as Edna grows more and more cruel toward Cara, can Levi rescue her in time? ​
London. 1857. In the filth-ridden streets of East End in London, young Elsie Griggs knows little more than grueling poverty and constant hunger. When her mama becomes ill, Elsie must get a job to support the family, but working as a personal maid in Whiston Manor is torturous. Mrs. Whiston is irritable, critical, and hateful. The only good thing about the manor is her grandson, Andrew. As Elsie's attraction to Andrew grows, she has no way of knowing a series of tragedies are barreling toward her that will rip her entire world apart, setting her on a new path. But will this new path include Andrew? Or will it lead her further away from him and into a world of loneliness and regret?
Fae Carter has been hiding all her life. First, her mother hides her from the violent man who owns their home. Then Mama sends her to live with her grandparents. Grandma does not want her. She keeps Fae hidden upstairs and in the back garden, where Fae meets Ollie, who seems to be the only person who doesn't want to hide her away. When Fae's grandparents leave, Fae is forced to make her way back to the city. While living on the streets of London and hiding from the awful man in Mama's house and struggling as a parlor-maid for a cruel, lustful master – Fae's heart longs for the country—and the boy she once knew. Miles away, Ollie's heart longs just as strongly for the girl that nobody else believes exists. But he knows she's real. He knows he loves her. But what he doesn't know is whether she'll ever come back to him...
Olive Wickes, her parents, and her little brother Jimmy struggle to survive in the slums of London. Things go from bad to worse when Father succumbs to consumption. Without his job at the docks, the family can't get by. They try to survive on the streets, but it's an impossible task for a destitute mother and her two small children. Olive learns the horrors of working in a match factory and the deadly disease lurking inside. But one bright thread runs through her story: a kind and handsome boy who gives her bread and whistles just like a nightingale. Is he her only hope for a better life?
London. 1854. Fern Hall grows up in a brutal London orphanage. She’s able to escape it when she’s hired out as a maid to the wealthy Hawk family--but a servant’s lot is little better than an orphan's. Gerard Hawk is drawn to Fern. When Fern is falsely accused of theft, Gerard is the only one who believes her innocence. She flees, leaving behind everything. A year and a half later, Fern and Gerard meet again, but the gap between their circumstances is wider than ever. Now in love with Gerard, Fern despairs of anything ever changing in her life. Then something mysterious from Fern’s past surfaces... Does Fern have the courage to see it through? Is change really a possibility? ​
Abandoned in a marketplace, Bincy Hall is discovered by the police and taken to an orphanage, where nobody wants her. When Bincy is betrayed by the orphanage bully, she's sent to work in a manor house as a scullery maid. There,  Bincy meets two young men: Judd, the street urchin who comes into the cellar to scavenge for food, and Henry, the charismatic young master of the house. Despite Judd's warnings, Bincy falls for Henry. But when Henry demands more from her than she's willing to give, Bincy has to make a choice: give herself to him or face her greatest fear of being discarded once more.
Ivy Harris is twice unwanted by the time she's two years old. Her Aunt Bertha – a crook and a thief – takes her in, teaching her to lie and steal, anything to survive. When Bertha dies, Ivy’s world ends—until she meets charismatic, compassionate, golden-haired George, the leader of a gang of street children. Ivy falls hard for George. Later, when he's dying from infection, she saves him. But saving him costs Ivy her position – and almost her life. She's wandering the streets now, alone and scared, and her life is in terrible danger. Can George save her? And is there some connection between him and Joseph Shaw, the rich man whose hair also shines like spun gold?
​Lena Phillips has everything she could want: a father who adores her, a mother who spends hours reading to her, a nursery full of wonderful toys. As Christmas approaches, Lena grows more and more excited – unaware a dark plot is brewing, and she will be caught in its tendrils. Sold to a cruel couple in the slums of Victorian London, Lena is plunged into a world of begging, stealing, starving, and abuse. Lena's family searches in vain for her. Every Christmas that follows is progressively colder and more desperate than the first. Lena loses hope that anyone will want her – except a boy with sad grey eyes. A boy who needs her as much as she needs him...