The Importance of Sons

by Keira Morgan Book 2 in the Chronicles of the House of Valois series.

First published 2022

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After Brittany’s defeat, Anne becomes queen of France through her marriage to Charles VIII, hoping that a son will secure both her position and the future of her duchy. The birth of Charles-Orland seems to promise stability, but Countess Louise d’Angoulême wants her own son, Francis, to stand closer to the succession.

Anne and Louise compete for influence in a court shaped by royal pregnancies, fragile heirs and Charles’s ambitions in Italy. The novel follows Anne’s first French marriage through dynastic rivalry and repeated loss, asking how much authority a queen can exercise when motherhood and inheritance determine her political value.