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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

"Because I believe in earning things through my own merit and hard work." Lucas said flatly. "I don't want to be known throughout the continent for my never ending gold lust, or for pushing others into the dirt and climbing over them just so I can get my hands on more."

Celia's curiosity was piqued. Who else had Antony Nadrim clambered over to get ahead? She knew of how his insistence that his pregnant wife travel to Islia for the sake of his career, had ended in tragedy.

Surely that was what Lucas was talking about? Because she couldn't imagine anything worse than the loss of a child.

"Just as well you're nothing alike." Tobin sniggered, then he scowled at the fussing toddler on his knee. Gabriel had started to arch his back and stretch his little arms out to his mother, eager to be held by her again.

A King’s Word is Absolute