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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

Lucas was soon bent forward in his seat, wiping the tears of laughter from his eyes as Celia told him the story of his father and his three Islian mistresses. She was laughing uncontrollably as well, barely able to get the words out at some points.

"Deceiving three ladies at the same time?" Lucas muttered in disbelief. "I'd like to think that was a personal record for Papa but knowing him, it probably wasn't."

"And it wasn't just the occasional dalliance either. Each of those women spoke of being in a committed relationship with him, of expecting to become the next viscountess in the near future." Celia said as she recounted the terrible screaming match between the three hopefuls in her mother's chambers. "Between all that, how did your father have time to do, you know, actual diplomacy?"

Honour Thy Father