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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

She'd let Lucas kiss her again that day, after she'd spent a couple of blissful hours in Gabriel's nursery. One of the dry nurses had kept her company for a while, a young woman with a jolly smile named Jeanne.

Celia and Jeanne had ended up chatting while Celia had changed Gabriel's linen and rocked him in her arms. She didn't care that a princess shouldn't really be making conversation with a servant, let alone talking to her like an equal.

But it struck her how long it had been since she'd had female friendliness in her life. Not the kind of backbiting friendship she'd had for years with Lauren Blackwell. But just to have someone around who was friendly and cheerful.

Someone wasn't working to tear her down bit by bit.

The red headed wet nurse opened the door and nodded at Celia in a silent warning.

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