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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 like the entire village had gathered outside to say goodbye that morning.

The sun was still low in the sky, casting their long shadows across the ground. She knew the earlier she set off, the earlier she could reach Langley Manor.

And the day after that, she'd be able to see Lucas and Gabriel. The two greatest loves of her life.

Celia clasped the hands of all the peasants who approached her to bid her farewell and Godspeed. She thanked them warmly for their care and hospitality, especially given she represented the heartless dynasty who ruled over them.

They could've turned her away when she'd been left stranded. They could've jeered at her and told her to fix her own problems, like a mighty princess should. But they hadn't.

Darby walked Arden over, leading her by the reins. "My sons looked after your horse, my lady. They fed her oats and apple cores."

Trade