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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

Celia was frozen to her spot as the physicians continued to work on Tobin. Any moment now, they'd be turning their accusing eyes to her.

She watched as they rubbed herbs and oils on Tobin's face and stiff arm. They drained another saucer of blood. They even tried to force a tonic down his throat. She winced when one man struggled to prise his uncooperative jaw open while a second man tipped the glass vial.

Still, no one so much as glanced at the young queen.

It was only when Tobin started making gagging sounds and spat out the tonic, that the physicians stepped back from the bed and looked at each other uncertainly.

Celia could no longer bite back her words. If she was going to be accused, she'd rather they just came out with it instead of leaving her floundering in the unknown.

"Do you know what's wrong?" she cried out.

Keeping Still