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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 was sprawled lazily on her back, a sea of tangled blankets under her. Her forehead was damp with sweat.

I will not faint. I will not. I've done that before and the knave didn't let me live it down for weeks.

Next to her on the bedchamber floor lay Lucas, equally hot and flushed. She watched his chest rise and fall. He sounded like he was almost wheezing as he fought to get the air into his lungs.

The sound made her laugh. "Listen to you. It's like you've swallowed a little pitch pipe."

"What a cruel thing to say." he muttered. She could see his eyes closing. "Your mockery wounds me deeply, do you know that?"

Celia burst out laughing again as she rolled into his side and cuddled up against him. Her muscles were limp and her throat positively burned after she'd screamed without restraint.

Pitch Pipe