Greeting the Grooms: School of Brides, #3

By Karen C. Klein

Shanti gets an examination to confirm that she is unfit to be a wife. Then she begins to learn her duties as a headmistress and greets two prospective grooms.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dancing Dragon Press
• Release date: Jan 11, 2018
• ISBN: 9781386081715

Karen C. Klein

Karen C. Klein writes fiction and non-fiction in a variety of genres and styles. She is author of Torin’s Legacy, which is the first book in her series Chronicles of the Mages’ Guild. She also enjoys writing short fiction and novellas. In addition to writing, Karen is a keen researcher, with a librarian’s eye for detail. While in grad school, Karen discovered an enjoyment of website design and has experience in web design using the WordPress content management system.  She has experience utilizing search engine optimization and can do so for any content she writes. Karen also has a passion for all things geek culture and co-hosts the podcast, Pages & Pixels: from two geek girls.

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Greeting the Grooms

A Story of the School of Brides

Karen C. Klein

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Greeting the Grooms

A Story of the School of Brides

Copyright © 2014 Karen C. Klein

Dancing Dragon Press

Cover Design © S.M. Asmussen

Cover Art © Vadym Andrushchenko

This book is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. All rights reserved. This is a work of fiction. All characters and events in this book are fictional,and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental. This book, or parts of it, may not be reproduced in any form without permission.

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New Edinburgh Space Station, Fourth Day Fourth Month, 3000 A.E.

Ms. Striker graciously allowed Shanti to have Third Day to rest from her exhausting journey. Not to mention that Mrs. Banks needed to set up an appointment at the nurse’s office. And with the installation crew for the e-translator. And with the lock company so that Shanti’s handprint could be entered into the school’s lock database. Thus, Mrs. Banks spent Third Day making appointments, and Shanti kept to her room. She didn’t even leave her sitting room to take turns around the gallery. Or to eat with the girls.

It felt entirely luxurious to Shanti to not have to see anyone, besides the maids who brought her meals in and out of the sitting room.

Thus, when Mrs. Banks appeared in her sitting room after breakfast on Fourth Day, Shanti steeled herself for a long day of errands.

The medical offices were in the fifth sector of the space station. The elevator ride took nearly forty-five minutes. Thankfully, they took the same hallway off the main corridor as last time.

Once you take over the school, Mrs. Banks said, as they stood in the elevator, waiting for it to move, "you shall be free to move about the station without me. Until then, it is a