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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 felt like she'd been chewing on the same morsel of stew for an hour, but she couldn't bring herself to swallow.

Being under her mother's hawkish stare wasn't really helping her appetite, but she knew she'd better eat a proper dinner unless she wanted to face a barrage of questions.

Celia managed to finally swallow, then took a sip of wine. Her expression was calm but inside, the two sides of her raged.

She could lean on her mother, but not too much. Otherwise, the temptation to confide in her and tell her everything, would be brutal.

Damn you, Tobin, Celia clenched her jaw. Damn you for forcing me to carry the shame of your mistreatment like a terrible burden. One that I'm too scared and proud to share with anyone.

Fight For It