Blythe Gifford

Blythe Gifford sets romantic fiction amid medieval politics, social constraint, and real figures from Britain and Europe. Whispers at Court holds the middle place in the Royal Weddings trilogy, between Secrets at Court and Rumors at Court. Set at Edward III’s court in 1363, it brings Lady Cecily, companion to the king’s daughter, into an uneasy alliance with Marc de Marcel, a French noble held as an honored hostage. Cecily wants to protect the princess from scandal, while Marc hopes to return home, so each needs the other’s cooperation. Harlequin Historical published the title during 2015. Before becoming a novelist, Gifford worked in public relations, advertising, and marketing. Her fiction often incorporates historical people and events while keeping the central relationship invented. Questions of ransom, loyalty, national hostility, and constrained choice shape a courtship in which diplomacy begins as a practical bargain.