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After a career in public relations, advertising and marketing, Blythe Gifford returned to her first love—writing historical romance. Now her characters grapple with questions about love, work and the meaning of life, and always find the right answers. She strives to deliver intensely emotional, compelling stories set in a vivid, authentic world. She was a finalist in the Romance Writers of America’s Golden Heart (™) Award competition for her debut novel, THE KNAVE AND THE MAIDEN. She feeds her muse with music, art, history, walks and good friends. You can reach her via her website, www.BlytheGifford.com

Recent novels by the same author:

THE KNAVE AND THE MAIDEN

THE HARLOT’S DAUGHTER

Author Note

In the fourteenth century, before the great war between England and France that lasted one hundred years, an embassy was sent from England to the Low Countries to gain allies for the King. The chroniclers tell us the delegation included a group of knights who wore eye patches and refused to speak until they had performed some valiant deed of arms against the French.

I could see these fifty knights, riding their horses off the cogs and onto the beach, then gathering for their ceremonial entry into the city. But in my vision one of them took off his eye patch and rode away alone.

This is his story.

For Phyllis, a woman who has never lacked passion or courage.

To C. Dx4

And with thanks to Linda Fildew, who shared my vision for the story and made it better, and Lindsay Longford, who has liked it every time I’ve rewritten it.