The Road at my Door

Reese Cavanaugh is caught between a terrible secret that will destroy her family, and a desperate need to share it with someone.

Everyone Reese thought she could trust fails her. In a world where adults lie to each other, and to Reese, she is on her own. As she struggles to hide the family secret from the outside world, Reese spirals downward.

If Reese saves her family, can she also save herself?

The Summer Boy

Deposited by his dysfunctional city parents for the summer with his eccentric Aunt Mary in a remote Appalachian cove, Benjamin Drum runs away, farther than he ever intended, closer home than he ever imagined. Lost between the mountains, Ben wanders into a strange new world where he is befriended and pursued by beings human and non-human, malevolent and merciful.

Before he finds his way back to Mary, he finds himself.

The Summer Boy is a genre-defying work, bright and shining as a summer day, dark and deep as a coal mine.

New York Orphan

1853 - From fleeing the Irish Potato Famine, to losing his parents on the ship to New York, seven-year-old Daniel Flynn knows about adversity. As Daniel sings the songs of home to earn pennies for food, pick-pocket Thomas Reilly becomes his ally and friend, until he too is cast out onto the street. A destitute refugee in a foreign land, Daniel, together with Thomas and his sister Molly, are swept up by the Orphan Train Movement to find better lives with families across America. For Daniel will the dream prove elusive? How strong are bonds of loyalty when everything is at stake? Based on real history, the strength of the characters in New York Orphan will move you with their desperate plight to survive. A gripping story of love, loss, betrayal and bonds of kinship.

This Land is My Land

‘This Land is My Land’ and ‘Came as ‘me’, Left as ‘we’’ are holiday reads from Alfie Dog Fiction. The collections bring together some of the best short stories from 37 authors across the globe. ‘This Land is My Land’ is more action and adventure driven while ‘Came as ‘me’, Left as ‘we’’ contains a mixture of women’s fiction, feel good stories and romance, and both contain stories to leave the reader thinking. Alfie Dog Fiction’s managing director, Rosemary Kind, says “We know from our readers that they like to stock up on reading matter for their holidays and these collections offer the perfect way to do just that.” Both collections have a truly international feel, not only through the spread of the writers but the fascinating backdrops to the stories. Within the pages the reader will travel from diamond mining in Australia to a lone tree in an African desert, from the quintessential English seaside Pier to the jungles of Malaysia and coast to coast across America.