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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

That night, she knew Tobin was in foul spirits before he even entered her bedchamber. The cadence of his footsteps as he thumped through her presence chamber was enough to tell her of his ugly mood.

Celia hadn't even seen Tobin since early that morning, when his servants had almost carried him from her apartments. She'd learned long ago to avoid anyone nursing a hangover.

She'd given him a tentative smile when they'd met up before dinner to enter the banquet hall together, but he'd ignored her. He'd barely acknowledged her during the meal.

She couldn't have really talked to him if she'd tried. Tobin's had been seated with his back to her the entire time, while he talked and argued in equal measure with Lord Cade Heath.

No one said anything about a half drunk nobleman just pulling up a chair and sitting himself at the royal high table, monopolising the king's time. And normally, Celia wouldn't have cared either.

Cadence