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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

7 August, 1371. St Ivan's Palace, Havietten

Just as he'd loudly predicted, Tobin rose from his bed a few days later and returned to his regular routine. That meant he resumed napping, bellowing out orders that sent his servants scurrying in panic, and eating with gusto.

He seemed no worse for wear physically after his bout of illness. Celia thought that to be very unfair.

The court mindlessly followed suit by resuming its summertime activities without missing a beat. The days and nights at the palace settled back down to a veneer of normality.

Mostly normal but there were a few critical differences, if you knew where to look at least.

Celia did, and what she saw didn't fill her with a lot of reassurance.

Instead of learning some humility after being wholly in others' care for several days, being ill had made Tobin more short tempered. And even worse, he also seemed to become suspicious of everything around him.

This is Justice