Other Worlds by Kay Freeman - Haunted Halloween Spooktacular

Luna Lord’sRecipe for Healthy Carrot Muffins 

for Humans and Werewolves

Ingredients:

¾ cp of gluten-free flour
½ cp of almond, rice or banana flour
⅔ cp dark brown sugar 2 tb raisins (optional)
2 tsp ground cinnamon 1 tsp ground nutmeg
1 tsp baking powder
½ tsp baking soda pinch of salt
2 large eggs
⅓ cp of melted butter or choice of oil 1 tb of vanilla extract
4 medium carrots, grated (about 2 cups)
½ cp crushed pineapple

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees and spraymuffin tins or line muffin tins with paper liners if using.

Whisk all dry materials together. Inanother medium lightly whisk the egg, then whisk in the butter or oil andvanilla extract

Quickly and lightly fold the wetingredients into the dry ones with a rubber spatula. Stir in the carrots andpineapple until everything is evenly mixed. The batter will appear thick.Divide it up into the muffin tins, evenly. Bake until brown and toothpick comesout clean, approximately 30 minutes. Take out of tins after five minutes andcool on rack. These are great warm but they can be eaten cool as well. Thesefreeze well too and can be reheated in the microwave.

Muffins are about 180 calories a piece,approximately, and calories will fluctuate depending on oil and flour chosen.

 

 

Other WorldsKay Freeman
Genre: A Gothic RomantasyPublisher: Kay Freeman LLCDate of Publication: September 1, 2024 ISBN:979-8-9901068-3-3 ASIN: B0D4T2FDHLNumber of pages: 202Word Count: 77, 320
Cover Artist: Consuela Parra 
Tagline:  Run with Wolves or Fly with Immortals? A Love Story Written in Blood.
Book Description:
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:

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

Justlike her.

Kingcrouches, 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 apopular 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 onecurrently on it. The woman’s faded blue jeans and turquoise flannel shirt makeher easy to track.

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

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

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

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

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

Kinghad scoped the woods all morning and afternoon. There are no hunters or farmerswho will shoot at him to help the woman. The nearest cottage is three milesaway.

Shepicks up her backpack before placing one strap over her shoulder and taking afew steps. King keeps within striking distance. The jays and blackbirds goquiet, and the woman senses something wrong and freezes. She turns her headfrom right to left, searching the woods.

Kingknows 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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