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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 drifted between deep sleep and fretful dreams. Between tearful despair and stoic resignation. Wisps of different memories streaked through her mind, all blurring together.

She pushed herself up to a sitting position on the bed. How long had she been napping?

How was it possible she felt even more tired than when she'd laid down?

That wasn't all she was feeling, unfortunately.

Her belly twisted painfully and a wave of fierce nausea suddenly hit.

Celia pressed the back of her hand to her lips, waiting for the horrible sensation to fade. But it wouldn't. It just kept building.

She climbed off the bed on unsteady legs, the urge to retch growing stronger and stronger.

Uh oh. She wasn't going to make it down the corridor to the nearest privy.

The only other option she had was the chamber pot that had been placed in a corner of her dressing room floor.

She ran and nearly didn't make it.

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