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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

15 March, 1369. Magdaline Castle, Islia.

Celia couldn't tear her eyes off the imposing stone structure on the gentle rise before her. Her never ending tiredness now banished, she'd been watching with growing excitement as their group drew closer and closer to the castle, with its mighty stone outer wall and imposing towers. The visible symbol of her grandfather's enduring power.

Father's power now, she quickly corrected herself.

It was all going to take her a little time to get used to the recent changes.

Celia hoped her grandfather was still in good enough health for her to visit and talk with him. She was dying to know why he'd made such an unprecedented decision.

The old king wasn't one to leave anything to chance. Knowing his canny ways, it would've been something he'd given a great deal of thought to. Hopefully she'd be able to sneak away for an afternoon or two and go see him in-

Where exactly would he be these days?

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