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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's cheeks were hurting from smiling so widely. Gabriel's laughter filled the serene nursery like a colourful butterfly mowing through a white room.

Lucas laughed as well. He was tossing the baby in the air and catching him again. Gabriel absolutely loved it.

The first time Celia had seen him do that, she'd nearly lost her mind from the shock. She'd actually screamed, terrified that Lucas would fail to catch him and their son would land on the rugs with a crash. Not intentionally, of course. But it wouldn't be the first time that good intentions had lead to an accident…

That had never happened. Not even close.

She had to grudgingly admit that Lucas's large, capable hands were one of the very safest place their baby could land.

She'd eventually learned to relax while watching father and son playing. Lucas had explained to her, with the sweetest kind of patience, that the baby wasn't some fragile, breakable doll.

Rough and Tumble