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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

Celia couldn't remember the last time she felt so fidgety. She was exhausted and yet taut with nerves.

She was sure her repetitive footfalls were going to end up wearing a threadbare track through the bedchamber rugs.

She could hear the chapel clock striking the eleventh hour and there was still no sign of Tobin.

Maybe he's forgotten all about stopping by here, she wondered. He said he'd be playing cards with those pointless lads he calls friends. So he could just end up carousing with them for the night and not coming here at all.

If that's going to be the case, I can stop pacing around in this ridiculous nightgown and just go to sleep.

But for once, I really need him here.

And if there's even the slightest chance he's going to show up, I need to be awake and alert. Lord knows, I've woken up enough times before to the brute pawing at me. I don't need a repeat of that unpleasantness.

Toe the Line