My Novel Summer: First Look – Meet Ms Hawkes (Patreon)

Oh-ho-ho! It’s a banner day in the beWilderverse for sure! Our dear Unshi’s been tinkering away in the background since the beginning of the year, pre-producing the goodies and the greatness that will be our 3rd game, “My Novel Summer”, a relatively short but too spicy to be called sweet visual novel which we hope to bring a first taste to you later this year. After plenty of efforts and artworks, we’re finally ready to give you all an amuse-bouche of the flavour ahead in the next instalment of beWildness! Allow me the pleasure of introducing the newest leading lady of wildness!

Say hello to Helena Hawkes, college student as well as 5th generation daughter and scion of a once prominent family of New York’s Gilded Age. But please, call her “Lina”, all that fancy stuff never sat well with her. Over the last 130 years, her family’s fortunes have risen and fallen, as her’s are about to during the most influential summer of her life. Despite her life’s course having been chartered for her, a twist of fate and a city’s misfortune sees her summering far away from home, in a Tuscan villa of secrets, lust and temptation that no girl’s innocence can dream of leaving intact.

Duty bound by her mother and late father’s expectations, Lina has forever been the good girl, the debutante, the inheritor of a proud line that long ago ceased to matter, though it seems she’s the only of the Hawkes who can say it out loud. Her twin secret passions she’s kept hidden to herself all her life are the semi-biographical erotic romance books of her idol novelist, Antonietta la Lupa, and studying the expression-fueled language of Italian, both outlets for the sides of herself that have been struggling to assert themselves for a long time. Recently, a third passion has emerged deep in her chest, a yearning for her Italian professor, the shining light of her life, her confidant and mentor. The man who sees the real her deep inside.

After the Maeda Cartel stormed the streets of Manhattan, the event was covered up as a new terror attack on the city of New York. In the conflicting stories, reports and testimonies of that bewildering day, the scarred city has been engulfed in a fresh, post-9/11 type tension and panicked fever that has yet to break. It’s a dangerous time for the supposed elite to stay in town, and that includes our Lina. An outstretch hand comes from the unlikeliest of places, her professor, and the “immersive summer abroad” he offers to his favourite of students in her time of need, at his home in Tuscany. It’s a chance for Lina to escape the city, escape her life as she knows it, and to live as a protagonist of her beloved novels would, as well as follow in the footsteps of her idol Antonietta.

She has 1 summer to become who she’s always wanted to be, to be with the man she’s wanted the most, if she can only unleash the babe within the blue-blood, the slut within the high-society sheltered girl. But what’s inside isn’t all she’s got to contend with: Culture shock, nosy neighbours, not to mention her professor’s own wife in her way. As she readies to step into her new home for the summer, the curiously addressed “Villa di Lupa”, the shewolf’s den, it’s all down to her choices: Will this be the summer her life turns into the novel experience she’s been seeking, or a chapter she’d rather forget ever letting slip through her avid fingers?

And that’s our first peek into a whole new branch of the beWilderverse, as the wildness first touches the shores of Europe at last! In that’s not enough to whet your whistle or sate your now hopefully hungry appetite, we’ve 1 more teasing looksee at Lina on our Discord right now!

We’ll be working hard on making this summer a hot one indeed, both under the Italian sun, and as far afield as our dear beWilder’s Philly too! Stay tuned for more dispatches from the editor, as the novel of Lina’s lust in a whole new land unfolds in due course as the sun hangs high! Until then, you know what we’ve got to say…

Be your best, bad self (you only get 1 chance) and beWilder!