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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

"What our late father would've wanted?" Tobin parroted as he placed both hands on his throne's arm rest and looked ready to leap out of his seat to attack.

Well, as capable of leaping as Tobin could manage to be.

"It was something His Late Majesty and I discussed on one occasion about five years ago." the viscount said. "I had just returned to his court after finishing my tenure in Islia. You were still a child, Sire, but it was clear to all that your lady mother was no longer of an age to bear more children."

"And the late king offered you the title of Lord Governor?" Celia asked. She was quite sure Antony was lying but wasn't confident she could expose his lie. She'd have to ask some very careful questions to pierce through his cunning facade.

She wasn't convinced she could do it at all.

Then again, she had a greater chance of success with a quiet, measured approach than Tobin with his inevitable screaming fit. So shouldn't she at least try?

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