Fortune de France Books in Order

Two veteran soldiers establish a household in sixteenth-century Périgord, maintaining loyalty to both the French crown and their Huguenot faith. Religious conflict, disease, famine, and lawlessness threaten the community they build around their fortified château.

Pierre de Siorac leaves his family stronghold to study in Montpellier in 1566, accompanied by his brother and a resourceful companion. Their new independence brings opportunity and danger in a university city divided by religious hatred and violence.

After a duel with a jealous nobleman, Pierre de Siorac must seek a royal pardon in Paris. Courtly manners conceal violent rivalries as religious tensions deepen, threatening both his petition and the lives of the companions who accompany him.

Practicing medicine provides cover for Pierre de Siorac’s secret service to King Henry IV. Amid religious rivalries and foreign plots, he must protect the crown while maneuvering through threats that increasingly endanger his own family.