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The House Along the Way , by Elysa Summers, is a captivating story of artist, Ella, who is born with a rare genetic condition which means she can't feel fear. Embedded in a village that strives to keep her 'safe', all Ella wants is to be free to live her life. One day, in a desperate moment, she runs up to 'that house along the way' everyone warns her away from and meets the man everyone's afraid of... BUY NOW Release date: 14th May Early reviews are starting to trickle in on Goodreads : "...quite an emotional tale." Vanessa Wild (Early Reader Review) "...captivated me from the very first page..." Nancy Allen, The Avid Reader (Magick of Books)  "...a sweet romance story, with mystery and suspense   masterfully woven into it."   Book Reviews by Lynn  READ SAMPLE Everyone feared him; she feared nothing. The house off the single road between the edge of the village and the nearest town belongs to the last of the McIntosh brothers. Fo...

Submission Guidelines Updated 13th March, 2026 Thank you for your interest in Bitten Fruit Books. If and when working with authors, our goal is to give a voice to unusual, less mainstream work within genre fiction, especially for first-time UK authors . We want to help you get off the ground. We are a micro-publisher based in the United Kingdom – we are small, niche, and a family-run business and we don't pretend to be anything other than that. We only work with one author at a time to give you our best, which can mean only publishing, say, two new authors a year. What We're Looking For We are looking for genre fiction which is fast-paced, passionate, creative, intelligent, and somehow different to the norm. We publish new authors under Bitten Fruit Books (contemporary romance, women's fiction, contemporary thrillers) and our brand new about-to-launch imprint, Between Fire & Ice (dark fantasy, paranormal romance, gothic fiction, horror, supernatural thrillers). We get...