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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

"Explain to Tobin that you want to bring me on as a mentor. Don't tell him it's because he needs the help, of course. Tell him it's for you. So that I may guide you in your duties as queen."

"You would guide me on how to be a good queen?" Celia parroted blankly. The woman really thinks she's some kind of example for me to emulate?

Has she lost her fucking mind or have I?

"Yes. And in such a role, I'll be able to advise you both and help keep my son on an even keel, without him even realising." Maura ailed, looking very pleased with herself. "Hopefully I can steer him towards some more suitable company. His close friends are hopeless souls. The only other young man whose opinion he places any value on is Viscount Nadrim's son. And it won't do for bastard stock to be meddling in the kingdom's affairs."

"I see. So what you're after is a kingdom with two queens…" Celia murmured. She could see in her mind exactly how that arrangement would play out.

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