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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 threw her head back and screamed with laughter, her movements almost causing the wine in her goblet to slosh over the rim. Taking care not to spill, she kept laughing.

Across from her, Viscounted Langley, whose name turned out to be Therese, roared with laughter as well. The two women were sitting at opposite ends of the window seat in the viscountess's charming presence chamber.

The women had been in private conversation for at least an hour. Celia had her legs tucked up under her, leaning back against a large silk cushion. She was wrapped in a robe and nightgown Therese had lent to her while her maids tried to scrub clean the princess's riding habit.

Having worn it for two days solid, Celia couldn't care less if she never saw the dirt caked, sweaty dress again. She had to acknowledge she'd still need it, though.

Their Fear, Our Problem