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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

The two of them stayed up talking for hours that night, trying to think of ways to best face the next few months.

"Maybe I should leave court for a while." Lucas said unhappily. "It doesn't help our cause if Tobin and everyone else always see us spending time together in the library. Especially since as you say, the king has become even more suspicious since he recovered from that illness. If I'm not around, I'm less likely to be front of his mind."

"No, you can't do that." Celia shook her head forcefully. "I can't do this, I can't wake up and face whatever each day brings me, without you. I need you here."

He bobbed his head and sighed, cracking his knuckles. "You're probably right. I couldn't bear to leave you alone here in your condition anyway, and I don't want to be away from our children."

Hope is the Last Thing to Die