The Responsibility Of Virtue In Minerva's Mystic Museum

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Korina’s betrothed was reported to be a brutal and ugly man. Discovering this as the truth she runs away only to find herself stranded and alone in an alien dimension.

Five years have passed when she is compelled to visit Minerva’s Mystic Museum where ‘the powers that be’ are about to intercede and give her the chance to change that destiny.

Korina is sent home where she discovers it is the morning of her wedding day. She has done a lot of growing up in the five long and lonely years of her exile. Facing up to this responsibility didn’t seem as life shattering as it had the night she’d visited the witch.

After seeing the groom her parents give her the option of refusing to marry. They are willing to bear the shame. When she learns she

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