Succession

Two remarkable women cunningly work the strings of succession during the Wars of the Roses . . .

Margaret of Anjou is young, beautiful, French and wildly unpopular when she marries England's ill-fated Henry VI. After the English are banished from France and her husband goes mad, civil war erupts, pitting family against family and endangering the land. With Henry incapacitated and plotters everywhere, Margaret becomes a warrior queen, fighting for her husband's right to be king and her son's position as his rightful heir.

Meanwhile heiress Margaret Beaufort is born into a troubled inheritance. Fiercely sought after by courtiers who want to be her guardian, or to make an alliance with her by marriage, she is a pawn in a political game. By the age of thirteen she has married twice and given birth to her only son, who will be the future King of England. But then he is taken from her . . . and her fight really begins.

Successionis the intense and powerful story of the women who gave birth to the Tudor dynasty.

'In SuccessionLivi Michael engages meticulously with the diverse historical accounts of the Wars of the Roses, but she also invests intimate and poignant humanity into the personal tragedies of an era wrought with conflict and terror.' Elizabeth Fremantle, author of Queen's Gambit