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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

"Then how are you proposing to make yourself Regent, Tobin?" she asked. "We both know you can't just take the title for yourself, it must be granted to you. And it doesn't sound like that's happened."

Tobin gave her a calculating smile. "That's easy. I have a little talk with Father's advisors scheduled for tomorrow morning. I'll be letting them all know that any of them who are opposed tomaking a formal offer of the regency to me, will find they deeply regret that decision when I'm officially king. Which I think we can both agree, won't be too long away."

Celia shivered at the unadulterated glee in his voice. "Listen to yourself. How can you talk about your father's death so coldly?"

"It's the circle of life, isn't it? Always has been." he shrugged. "Sons will bury their fathers. It would only be unnatural if the reverse happened."

What I Didn’t Know