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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

"So what are you really doing here, Sarai? What are you hoping to gain by staying at the palace when we both know you don't like it?" Celia folded her arms across her chest.

"That's rather blunt. You don't waste any time with your questions, do you?" the princess grumbled under her breath.

"No, I don't. For the first time in my life, I find I don't really have to measure my words. The perks of my station and all that. And I'm still waiting for your answer."

Sarai looked at her resentfully. "I'm trying to convince Tobin to let my small estate be exempt from the tax he's planning to impose on the nobility."

Celia just stared at her for what felt like a long time, stupefied. "He's going to raise new taxes on the nobility?"

Taxed Into Nothingness