April/May 2026 New Release!

Award-winning writer of Wyatt Earp, An American Odyssey, winner of the 2020 Will Rogers Medallion Award, a 2019 Spur Award Finalist and an “Editor’s Choice” by The Historical Novel Society 

In the off-season of Camp Itawa, a production company rents the summer camp as a headquarters and begins filming a low-budget horror movie. Wilderness instructor/handyman Stoney St. Ney juggles movie stunts for the crew, fulfilling his winter camp duties, and navigating a new complication in his love life.

While his girlfriend, Abby, works out her ambivalence about her relationship with Stoney, another woman—Rachel—enters Stoney’s world, testing his loyalty to Abby. When Rachel is found dead in an apparent car crash during a snowstorm, Stoney unravels the clues that point to something more sinister than an accident.

Praise for Mark Warren

“Woven with clarity and colorful prose, Warren leads readers on an odyssey . . .” —True West Magazine on Promised Land 

“A good book offers the ultimate escape . . . armchair travel to those wild places of the imagination. Warren’s book took me to places I had previously not expected to visit, but I’m really glad I went there. —New Zealand Booklovers on Promised Land 

"Warren's novel paints a vivid picture . . . and its colorful similes will put a smile on any genre-fiction lover's face." —Booklist on Born to the Badge