Alex
Series: The Bradford McKinley Chronicles
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp
Published: April 2022
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9798812123772
First sentence: “Hey, Xander!”

I looked up from the track to my friend Roger. He and a few of our triathlon teammates were standing near the starting line, some twenty metres away from me. “Yeah?” I replied.

“We’re hitting the showers, and then we’re going to grab a coffee,” Roger called to me. “Wanna come with?”

“Nah, man,” I said. “I still have a few strides to run, and I have work after that. I’ll take a rain check.”

“Alright, see ya in class tomorrow!” he said, then the group turned away from me and headed for the changing room, leaving me alone on the track. Just as well. I wasn’t as fast as them, and I liked to train alone. I was on the team in name only anyway; I didn’t care about racing or results, I ran (and swam, and rode) because I really enjoyed it. I’d started doing it a few years earlier, just on a lark, and found out that I liked it. Now it was my only distraction from my drab, everyday life, made up of classes, homework, and my part-time job.
Description: By all accounts, Xander's life is pretty great. His family is loving, his best friend would go to the ends of the Earth for him, and he's doing well at school and sports. And yet... ever since he was very young, he has felt as if there was something missing in his life. Sometimes he feels empty inside, without knowing why. When his coworker dresses him up in her clothes, just for fun, he has the chance to find out. Alex is the story of a young trans woman's self-discovery and her journey of accepting her identity, and finding out a few things about herself and those around her along the way. Book one in the Bradford McKinley Chronicles series; all books stand on their own, and can be read in any order.