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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

21 March, 1369. Magdaline Castle, Islia

It was only her second day hiding away from everyone in her mother's apartments and she was already starting to chafe at the restrictions.

It was strange because it's not like she had a great yearning to face the gossips and courtiers again.

It was more that she was desperate to escape the sad eyes and hushed voices surrounding her. Her parents, the Islian maids. She hated being an object of pity. Whenever someone looked at her that way, it made her want to burst into tears all over again.

The truly awful fact was that her grief was less for her actual lost child and more for herself, for all that she'd be forced to endure to conceive again.

Yes, she was a monster. Less than two years of marriage had turned her into a terrible person who cared for her own neck more than her baby's.

Modesty