Swap DOg Kin

“Don’t waste your love on folks who ain’t got their own to spend.”
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Set in the haunting beauty of the 1930s Mississippi Delta, Swap Dog Kin is a story of escape, kinship, and the strange alchemy of healing. When David Lee Brackett, a queer white boy fleeing an abusive father, stumbles into the world of a Black healer named Gran Gran and her adopted granddaughter Violet Canary, nothing will ever be the same—for them, or for the land that binds them.

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A Story of Chosen Kinship, Race, and Redemption
Swap Dog Kin tells the story of three children—one white, one Black, one albino and motherless—gathered by fate and held together by love in a segregated South.
As David Lee seeks refuge from a father turned tent-revival preacher, he is drawn into Shinetown, a hidden Black settlement where the past still rustles like wind through cotton. There, Gran Gran tends wounds that medicine can't touch. Violet, caught between girlhood and grit, sees something in David Lee that even he can’t name. And Solomon, a silent boy with snow-white skin and haunted eyes, holds secrets that just might save—or undo—them all.