A Minotaur Tale: In Prose, Being a Monster Romance for Yuletide"Expect the first gift when the bell tolls one." All Cora wants for Yule is a few more shells for her collection, a cozy book by the fire, and to be spoiled by a minotaur to avoid the Yuletide Ball. Nymphs are supposed to be fun and flirty, but Cora has always been shy, bookish, and serious. If only Asterion, the minotaur of her dreams, would set his cap at someone else before she can disappoint himlike everyone else who has discovered her proclivity