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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 felt her eyes welling up as she looked at his stunned face. He was right. It was always risky for a woman to be sneaking around at night. Especially when she was the goddamn queen.

Why couldn't I just have waited until tomorrow to seek him out?

"I'm sorry. I wasn't trying to worry you. I've just been missing you a lot, and when I heard you were back..." she hung her head.

Lucas's expression softened and he pulled her against her chest, tugging her hood back at the same time. "It's alright, I shouldn't have snapped at you. I missed you terribly as well, and the little ones. You just worry the hell out of me sometimes, Celia."

She pulled back slightly, suddenly irritated. "You know I'm perfectly capable of looking after myself, don't you?"

Timing and Chance