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The Loneliest Ballad

“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.

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Flashback: Forsaking All Others

15 July, 1367. St Ivan's Palace, Havietten

Celia stared at her reflection in the large mirror, feeling curiously detached from her own body. It was like staring at a stranger. Two maids hovered around her, making final adjustments to her heavy gown.

She wondered if any other woman had felt such helpless dread on her wedding day. She felt like she was walking blindly towards an uncertain future.

Uncertain, but more than likely unhappy.

Celia looked at the bride in the mirror's polished surface, clad in a pearl encrusted ice blue gown to match her frightened eyes. Her pale gold hair had been softly curled but left loose under a lace veil, and her expression was haunted.

Oh my dear Mama, she thought. How I wish you were heard to hold my hand and guide me through this. I need your wisdom and your fortitude. Because I don't think there has ever been a more terrified woman on her wedding day.