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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 title echoed over and over in Celia's mind.

Her mind flashed back to several weeks ago when Tobin had been ill and bedbound from plain gluttony. How she'd heard him shouting at one of his advisors that he'd rather be on death's door than agree to appoint her as his regent.

One of the men sitting in front of me right now, might've even been in Tobin's room to hear him shout it, she thought with a wry smile.

"My husband has never been, um, in favour of me taking on the regency. That would be a very polite way of putting it." Celia mumbled. She kept her eyes downcast. Tobin's obvious refusal to ever trust her, made her feel oddly self conscious in front of others.

If her own husband had no confidence in her, why should anyone else?

The four physicians all nodded, but the words that followed took her by complete surprise.

Making Other Arrangements