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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

Neither of them said a word as they moved through the maze of tunnels, as quietly as the ghosts that the courtiers feared lived there.

Her hand clasped within Lucas's much bigger one, Celia knew she wasn't going to end up pressed against one of the dusty walls while he took her body that afternoon. It was disappointing as she adored his touch, but it wasn't what she was really worried about.

She knew Lucas was brooding about something. It had to be something to do with his own father. She'd seen how his mood had plummeted the moment she'd innocently mentioned how Viscount Nadrim might be as a grandfather.

Celia wanted to kick herself for her carelessness. Why the hell did she have to go and bring him up? She knew - she knew - the relationship between the two men had been fraught for years. She'd seen the way bitterness would mar Lucas's near flawless face at the mere mention of Antony, like the sun going behind a black cloud.

Sun Behind a Cloud