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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

There was fleeting moment, just before she opened her eyes again, when Celia didn't remember. A fleeting moment when she knew that her soul felt troubled but didn't quite remember why.

Then the image of Sabine lying cold and limp at the bottom of the staircase invaded her mind. Celia's eyes popped open and she sat up, heart pounding. She felt her blood instantly turn to ice in her veins.

She couldn't understand how something so terrible had happened.

Why had Sabine decided to confront Celia and pick a vicious argument?

Why had she thought she had the right to decide whether Celia lived or died?

And why hadn't she just stayed in her chamber afterwards instead of wandering around in the dark?

None of those questions would never be answered, of course.

It was nothing but a freak accident, Celia told herself. Sabine could've tumbled down those stairs the same way any other night.

Any Other Night