SOLVED. YA Fantasy series. Girls train to be good wives then get shipped off to a kingdom with low female population to marry the rich lords. [s]

[zara]

i read this book around 2018-2019. i think i only read the second book in the series, but its bascially abt a school where they get poor girls and they train them to be wives, and then they marry them off to the young lords in this other kingdom where they have a very low female population. the main character had a daughter, but nobody but her family knows and they pretend that its just her younger sister. on the way to the kingdom, the ship that all the girls r travelling in sinks, and they struggle to get to the city/ kingdom they r supposed to be in. along their journey, they stay in this small town, and the main character meets a love interest who i think might be a priest, i cant quite remember. also the family that she stays w is super duper conservative. the priest turns out to be one of the lords that could be her future husband, and he offers to marry her even though he knows she already had a daughter, but he doesnt want ppl to know that its her daughter. she rejects him and ends up marrying this other guy i think that she travelled w for a while and he isnt ashamed of the fact that she has a kid.

this book has been bothering me for a while, so i would greatly appreciate any help in finding it :)

[Becca]

It sounds like The Emerald Sea by Richelle Mead, the third book in the Glittering Court series.

[zara]

thank u smm!!!!! it is the book ive been looking for :)