The Children of the Kings is a science fiction novel by American writers Marion Zimmer Bradley and Deborah J. Ross in the Darkover series.

It was first published by in hardcover by DAW Books in 2013.

[2] The book is the second part of the "Children of Kings" duology.

The book starts about two years after the events in The Alton Gift, and is a direct continuation of that story.

The book falls in the Darkover time period that the publisher has labeled "Modern Darkover", which succeeds the departure of the Terran Federation.