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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

"I'm sorry but I must have heard you wrong." Celia murmured in a thin little voice. "It sounded like you said-"

"That my father was responsible for my brother's death? Yes, because it's what I said."

At that, Celia sucked in a harsh breath, completely lost for words. What the hell was she supposed to reply now?

And to think only a few moments earlier, she'd been hoping for Lucas to tell her something awful about himself…

Irony was a very cruel mistress indeed.

What kind of man killed a child? Much less his own infant in the cradle? "Was it…did he do it with poison?" Celia heard her voice catch a little.

Avarice