Minerva is the third maribal sister. From an early age she was smart, and self confident. From an early age she wanted to become a lawyer but her father did not want her to, however he agreed to let her attend Inmaculada Concpcion with her older sisters. This was after she spent 3 years at home after graduating high school. Once shes up at school she becomes friends with Sinita Perozo. Sinita tells Minerva about the deaths of her male family members. They were murdered for resisting Trujillo. This is really what ignites the fire in Minerva to become involved in the anti-Trujillo underground movement. She discovers that an old childhood friend who was a boy that she definitaly had a crush on was writing her letters in which her father had hidden from her. This angrys her but she reaches a truce with her father although shes still cold to him. She discover she has four other sisters out of this. She then attends law school where she meets her husband Manolo Tavarez. I haven't read much farther than this! Hopefully ill be done with the book by sunday