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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 dizzy as she struggled to make sense of the odd phrase. Her ears felt like they'd been stopped up with honey, making everything around her sound slow and muffled. "What…what is this…?"

Both men continued to pay her no attention, their gazes locked in a battle of wills.

Maybe they've completely forgotten I'm even here.

"When did you find out the truth?" Lucas asked dully. There was resignation on his face but no shock.

"Father told me on his deathbed. The poor son of a bitch was struck by a guilty conscience." Tobin said with a gruff laugh. "I didn't even know he had a conscience! But I guess that can happen when a man knows he's about to meet his maker and is carrying some heavy sins on his soul.

"I asked him what the fuck he expected me to do with the knowledge. What did he think was going to gain by telling me? And do you know what the old fool said?"

My Father, Our Father