Other Worlds by Kay Freeman

Run with Wolves or Fly with Immortals? A Love Story Written in Blood.

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About the Book

Other Worlds
by Kay Freeman

Published 1 September 2024
Kay Freeman LLC
Cover Artist: Consuela Parra

Genre: Gothic Romantasy
Page Count: 202
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After Luna’s world shatters, she seeks refuge in the mystical town of Assisi, Italy. Passions run high in this supernatural realm. Luna is irresistibly drawn to a gothic villa teeming with secrets and danger, owned by a vampire who offers her immortality. Nearby, a werewolf pack leader stalks her in the forest, determined to claim her as his mate. Torn between these new loves and her past one—her famous soon-to-be ex-husband—and her passion for photography, Luna sets out to discover what makes life worth living.

Join Luna on a perilous journey of desire and destiny in a novel that weaves contemporary gothic themes with fantasy. Enemies to Lovers, Beauty and the Beast, and Love Triangle tropes.

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Excerpt

This one’s perfect… similar to the model in the Botticelli painting Birth of Venus and the evil one who took his son. She has a long, narrow face, alabaster skin, and golden-brown hair that shines in the sun.

Just like her.

King crouches, blending in with the low-hanging branches of the donkey killer plant. He’s been stalking the woman on the bike path since yesterday morning. It’s a popular path with bikers, connecting the towns of Assisi and Spoleto in Umbria. It’s December now, though, and too cold, which explains why she is the only one currently on it. The woman’s faded blue jeans and turquoise flannel shirt make her easy to track.

Yesterday, she sat under a sprawling pine tree, its thick branches casting dark shadows on her face as she wrote a letter. The paper covered her lap. She attacked it with her pen, each stroke seemed more violent than the last until she tore the letter into pieces. Her chest heaved and then, after she had calmed down, she wrote another. When she finished, she read it aloud, her voice breaking as tears streamed down her cheeks. She begged her boyfriend to send money.

After pushing her completed version into an envelope, the woman walked to town, speaking to herself the whole way before she mailed it. Then she trudged back to her tent in the woods and got drunk, passing out, her desperation revealing itself once more. King had slept while she slept, only coming to when her movements awakened him this morning.

Now she stops to fetch the last of her wine from her backpack and smokes reefer while she hikes, making her more vulnerable. She’s probably on her way back to her tent, the one she slept in last night. The flimsy canvas is no barrier or protection from him or anything else. How silly for her to be out here alone.

Victor King is alone, too. That’s seldom the case. Most of the time, he travels with others from his pack, but right now, they’re back in the cave. If they had been here, King wouldn’t be able to do what he’s about to.

Once he traps her, he’ll call his friend Matteo, a human. Matteo promised to give King five million lire for any woman he traps and gives him. King will use the money to buy food and supplies. There’s been limited food to hunt as it’s gotten colder, and once it snows, there’ll be even less.

King had scoped the woods all morning and afternoon. There are no hunters or farmers who will shoot at him to help the woman. The nearest cottage is three miles away.

She picks up her backpack before placing one strap over her shoulder and taking a few steps. King keeps within striking distance. The jays and blackbirds go quiet, and the woman senses something wrong and freezes. She turns her head from right to left, searching the woods. King knows she can’t find him.

About the Author

Kay Freeman spent the early part of her career as a professional artist. She’s shown her work throughout the United States under her professional name, Kay A. Klotzbach. Kay was a full-time art professor in South Jersey for over twenty-three years and was granted a Princeton Mid-Career Fellowship for her teaching and her community based service learning projects.

Kay decided to pursue her passion for writing after her manuscript, Truth Moon, was selected by Romance Writers of America’s RAMP program in 2021, which led to the publication of her debut novel, Truth Moon, by The Wild Rose Press. Kay has gone on to self-publish six other novels.

Kay has won several awards for her writing. In 2022 Hitman’s Honey won third place in Mid Atlantic Author Society’s Romance Contest and in 2024, her novel Leather Man was one of three finalists in Passionate Ink’s Passionate Plume Contemporary Short Category. Her novel The Flower Queen topped Amazon’s Best Seller List, climbing to number eleven in June 2023 in the Historical Romance, 20th Century category. Kay is celebrated for crafting hard-won happily ever-afters that involve spiritual journeys and transformations for her characters.

She also writes a publication for romance authors, What Do Romance Authors Think About, a free newsletter on Substack. Besides her passion for art, reading, and writing, she loves the blues, tequila, and her husband Barry. Kay lives in Wilmington, DE. 

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