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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

As she looked at the decidedly upset faces around her, Celia had a moment of panic.

What if one of these men decide to report me to Tobin and repeat my very unflattering words to him?

Well, they all dragged me here. If one of them tries to betray me, I'll just tell Tobin I only came here as a spy, to see which of his advisors were disloyal enough to meet behind his back.

"I expect what the new king will value the most in those that surround him will be blind loyalty." Celia continued. "Those men that make him feel comfortable as opposed to challenged."

"He doesn't want advisors at all then, despite his very tender age. He just wants mindless parrots." one of the men grumbled, slapping his palm against the tabletop.

Harsh But True