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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

"…and speaking of you aching for a bath. Why are you moving around so stiffly, Daughter? Are you in some kind of pain?"

Celia flinched at the king's words, spoken so casually.

He'd agreed to dismiss her. She'd bowed farewell and was making her way out of his apartments. She'd nearly escaped.

But then he had to go and ask her that. Why?

It wasn't a casual question. Celia had realised many moons ago that despite being indolent, King Aron was an observant man. There wasn't much that missed his attention.

Except when he deliberately turned a blind eye to those things he'd rather not see, the problems he'd rather not deal with. He did that quite often and it wasn't a quality she admired in a ruler.

Twig in the River