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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 lost track of the time as she continued sobbing in her mother's embrace. Her shoulders heaved and her throat stung, but she just couldn't pull herself together.

You've failed, you stupid girl. All that effort and you still end up with nothing. What are you going to do now, she chided herself?

You'd better gather your courage and find the strength to start all over again, otherwise there's no point going back to Havietten. You may as well just beg your father to seek an annulment of your marriage by the pope.

The shame on her if she did that would be great, of course. No man would ever seek her hand again. Typically, marriages were only ever annulled because a wife was either found straying or barren.

Always the woman's fault. Isn't that what Thea would say?

Still, was it worse to live a life of private shame in Islia or one of public humiliation in Havietten?

No More Tears Left to Cry