An Unkindness

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Published by Decadent Publishing LLC Table of Contents Stories by Mazzy J. March Chapter One Chapter Two Chapter Three Chapter Four Chapter Five Chapter Six Chapter Seven Chapter Eight Chapter Nine Chapter Ten Chapter Eleven Chapter Twelve Chapter Thirteen Chapter Fourteen Chapter Fifteen Chapter Sixteen Chapter Seventeen Chapter Eighteen Chapter Nineteen Chapter Twenty Chapter Twenty-One Chapter Twenty-Two Epilogue A Sneak Peek at: Urban Academy: Semester 1 About Mazzy J. March Connect with Mazzy! Someone took my friend. Well, we weren’t close friends, but almost everyone is my enemy. And she was such a helpless kind of person, but I don’t know what to do to help find her. I’m lusting after three guys. And a crow wants to be buddies. Crows are sworn enemies to ravens, or so I’ve been informed many many times. As if I didn’t have enough to deal with being the outcast raven. The real question is how he manages to come and go from a campus that’s supposed to be impossible to breach without authorization. I came to the Academy of the Ravens to explore what my parents experienced, plus, I was homeless and this was the only place to go. I hoped there was a path forward for me, a way to step into adulthood with a plan. Weird notes and blood show up outside my door. Instead of being afraid of hunters and humans, I’m now scared of my own kind. They were after me and they got Mercy instead. Now I have to find her and try to figure out my life in the process. Three hot guys included. Sounds like the opposite of what I came here for. I thought for once I had a plan. An Unkindness is the third book in a paranormal reverse harem shifter series featuring a threatened orphaned raven shifter and the three male ravens who all want to be her fated mate. It is a why choose shifter romance with a slow-burn buildup sure to make your toes curl. Relationships develop over the course of this supernatural series and, of course, Mazzy guarantees an HEA. Stories by Mazzy J. March The Lycan Academy First Howling Second Growl Third Snarl Jaded Love Shifters of Consequence Survivor Legacy Triumph Dominion Torn Tether Tremble Tinsel Academy of Fire and Ash Betrayed by Dragons Coveted by Dragons Mated to Dragons Sciathain Academy Veiled Wings Sullied Wings Dawning Wings Across the Veil Mated in Silence Rejected by Fate Rejected by Blood Rejected by Birth Reaper’s Claw Wolf Pack Abandoned at Birth Forsaken Life Endangered Heart Heir Alight Ridgewood Rogue Wolves Saga Mangled Marred Wounded Restored Absolute Shifters of the Golden Flame Dragon Sacrifice Dragon’s Divulgence Dragon’s Vindication Stars Aligned Series Procyon Nebula Zenith Academy of the Ravens Darkened Wings A Conspiracy An Unkindness A Murder Urban Academy Semester One By Mazzy J. March and Jenna M. Jett The Conjurer Academy Enigma An Unkindness Academy of the Ravens Book 3 By Mazzy J. March Chapter One Gwen Get away from the hunters. Run for your life. Find safety. While the thought that Mercy had been taken by someone, by hands that darted out of the shadows, swirled in my mind, there was no time to investigate. I had to run for my own survival. As I turned, and my feet moved of their own accord, my own safety was the only thing I could think about. I used my hands to help traverse the hollow, dark hallways and, before I knew it, the cold night air hit my face, slapping me out of my survival daze. I had to find somewhere safe. My eyes scanned the grounds while my raven kicked up inside me, pushing her own senses onto the scene. She smelled danger from some source, and the pungency alone was enough to make her flap her wings inside me and cry out, save us–save ourselves. It wasn’t the first time her instinct had steered me clear of danger. And I hoped it wouldn’t be the last. “Shit!” I exclaimed in some kind of yell-whisper before turning heel once again and heading into a new building, one I actually hadn’t been in before. Probably a building with no R-classes. I took all three flights of stairs down, down, down until I was sure I had run into some kind of sub-basement area. As quietly as I could, I checked each door, cursing as I found each one locked. My eyes were drawn to a door all the way at the end of the hall, and I breathed out a sigh. It was the darkest, most ominous part of the hallway. Of course, that was the safest place to be. Running my hand over the wall as I approached the door, I thought about Mercy. She seemed so innocent, and I hoped she would have the street smarts to keep herself alive until someone could find her–rescue her. My innards shook while I got closer and closer to the door in front of me. As I did, I gasped at the intricacy of the carvings in the wood. This door wasn’t the plain,