The New Head Mistress: School of Brides, #2

By Karen C. Klein

Shanti travels to New Edinburgh Space Station to take up the position of Headmistress there.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dancing Dragon Press
• Release date: Jan 11, 2018
• ISBN: 9781386432951

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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The New Headmistress

A Story of the School of Brides

Karen C. Klein

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The New Headmistress

A Story of the School of Brides

Copyright © 2014 Karen C. Klein

Dancing Dragon Press

Cover Design © S.M. Asmussen

Cover Art © mik38

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 New Yorke Space Station, Second Month, Twenty-eighth day, 3000 A.E.

Ms. Van Stanton married off the entire group of Blues by the middle of the month. Then again, there had only been ten, and hers was the most prestigious school in the sector of the galaxy. She’d also married off several Hazels and Browns, but none of them were new students.

Shanti met the headmistress in her office and sat down, as Ms. Van Stanton indicated.

Your parents approve, Ms. Van Stanton said. Ms. Striker is paying them quite nicely for having you as a replacement – not as good as a bride price, but better than being in debt to the school. And I get a finder’s fee from your parents’ payment. She smiled.

When do I leave? Shanti said, trying to ignore the sick feeling at the bottom of her stomach. Her lunch sloshed uncomfortably in her stomach.

Ms. Striker wants you there on First day of Fourth Month.

Then today?

She nodded. Yes. And Ms. Striker will stay until First day of Seventh Month to help you settle. She is filling in as interim headmistress at New Edinburgh. She often fills in, rather than taking her own school.

Shanti nodded. Someone would teach her, even nominally, how to be the headmistress. That was more than she’d hoped for when Ms. Van Stanton proposed this situation to her.

Since this is a hyperspace journey, she said, you will be in stasis and won’t wake until your arrival.

Hyperspace? Shanti blanched.

Yes. We couldn’t get approval fast enough to get you on a regular space ship and have you there in time, the headmistress said, clicking her teeth together. "A regular space journey to New Edinburgh Space Station would see you there mid-Sixth Month. Much too late. So, I agreed with