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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

As the two of them continued to walk down corridors in stiff silence, they turned the corner and suddenly found a couple within their line of sight, a little to the side of the king's doors and enfolded in each other's arms.

The awkwardness doubled the moment she recognised the pair. It was her uncle William and his wife. She suddenly froze, refusing to get any closer.

A little behind her, she heard Lucas's footsteps also come to an abrupt halt.

Neither of them said a word, knowing they were intruding on a private moment. Celia knew she should look away politely. Still, she couldn't stop staring at the couple in fascination.

They weren't doing anything indecent as such, just whispering to each other between kisses. But to Celia it was shocking to see a married couple so, well, in love.

Love Can Be So Easy