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“You must bear a child, Celia. what good is a woman who isn’t a mother? What good is an empty womb?”

“Especially when it’s a foreign womb, like yours…”

It’s not an easy life when you’re watched month after month, when all the blame is placed at your feet for your young husband having no heir. 

Celia Devon Tralhamir, Crown Princess of Havietten, waits every month with hope mingled with fear. 

A child will secure her future. But it will also bind her for life to a husband she neither loves or respects, who refuses to see her abilities. Is that what she wants?

Is she content to prioritise security over happiness, and be a wordless decorative vessel all her life?

Or is she brave enough to try to forge her own path and seize fulfilment on her own terms? Even in a society that cannot recognise individual brilliance in a mere woman.

A sequel to the WEBNOVEL book “Earning the Love of a Princess”, this novel follows another woman born into the Royal House of Devon, trying to fight the confines that threaten to stifle her happiness.

The Loneliest Ballad

3 April, 1369. Magdaline Castle, Islia.

They found her just before dawn, at the bottom of one of the secondary staircases.

Lady Sabine Irden, sprawled on the stone floor, her flesh cold and her neck bent at an unnatural angle.

It was the screams of a maid that jolted Celia awake. She'd finally cried herself to sleep in the early hours, only to be tormented by nightmares. When she'd first heard the voice yelling for help, she'd assumed it was part of her dreams.

Until she opened her swollen eyes and blinked repeatedly. Her bedchamber gradually swam into view but the shrill cries continued.

Celia clambered down from the bed and carelessly grabbed a robe. Wrapping it around herself, she raced out into the corridor.

Vow of Silence