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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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Being the Smaller Person

6 January, 1369. St Ivan's Palace, Havietten

Celia weaved quietly through the bookshelves until she reached the table where she typically met with Lucas. To her great relief, he was there.

His face lit up when he saw her. The next moment, he looked at her eye and frowned with worry.

"Stop it. It's not as bad as it was before. It barely even hurts anymore." Celia frowned. She knew she still had bruising under her eyes, but at least it had now faded to yellow as opposed to its original dark purple.

"When I didn't see you here after the New Year's banquet, I thought maybe you'd been confined to your apartments."