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THE FIRST YEAR
Marked Blood Academy
by Mazzy J. March
I was fanged by a vampire.
I am a wolf shifter, and even though I did not turn, I’ve been taken from my school and deposited in one in the middle of nowhere to make sure I cannot harm others.
I still feel like me, but nobody else seems to think so. Unlike my old school, Urban Academy, everything here is very regimented, and we are locked in our cells…rooms…at night. My closest neighbors on this floor are three incredibly hot males who also bear the marks and also have not changed. They are a year ahead of me and have been here that much longer, so I want to find a way to talk to them, learn what to expect…and if there is ever going to be any way out of this place. If big strong wolves like them are still here, what can a female with no physical abilities to speak of hope to do?
Depend on this: I am not spending my whole life in the prison the administration calls Summer Ridge and we call Marked Blood Academy. I’ve done nothing wrong and do not deserve to be treated like a dangerous criminal or an animal. When I complained, the uniformed guard accompanying me told me I should be glad not to be put down. Put down?
The First Year is the beginning of the new Marked Blood Academy series. When a whole new type of vampire descends upon the world, none of the rules apply. In the past, you died or were changed, but now some young people do neither…so far. And those victims are a wild card who the council decides must be segregated from the rest. There’s nothing the headmistress of Urban Academy or any of the other schools can do to sway the council. The students bear the marks, the stain, the shame of something they had no control over and are imprisoned without benefit of trial. None of the rules for their protection apply.