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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

"Did I hear you right? They're going to present Tobin with a letter? What the hell?" she stared at him, her mouth hanging open in dismay.

"A written protest signed by all the men, asking him to reconsider his policy." Lucas explained.

"That protest won't be worth the parchment it's written on! What they need to do is collectively refuse to open their coffers until Tobin agrees to sit down and negotiate with them."

"Celia, they'll never do anything that bold as a first step. These are conservative men, set in their ways."

"Boldness is what's needed! This is what the mighty lords of Havietten describe as standing up against oppression? A stupid written protest?" she scoffed. "We both know Tobin will take such a letter and trample it into the dirt. Then what? The nobles just capitulate and go back to paying the taxes that Tobin wants regardless?"

Well Met