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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

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

It turned out Celia wasn't being poisoned. But when reality finally hit her square between the eyes, she began to wonder if poison would've been less of a potential disaster.

She was almost certain she was with child again.

She tried to convince herself it was impossible, that it had to be something else that was making her feel so ill. But every day that passed only served to force the obvious more and more down her throat.

Not only was she nauseous in the mornings, but her breasts were tender again in that familiar way. She also felt a constant, bone deep tiredness and certain smells turned her stomach.

And as far as everyone else was concerned, it had to be with the king's child again.

The very same king that she hadn't let back in her bed since she'd finished her last confinement. How was she going to explain this one away?

A Futile Loop