The road doesn't appear on any map. It doesn't need to. It finds you.

Cole Rennick has spent his life tracking things down across the American West-men, horses, answers. But when a road that shouldn't exist leads him to a dead town and a map that moves on its own, he understands that something has found him. And it isn't finished with him yet.

Elena Vargas has been searching for her missing brother for fourteen months. A schoolteacher by trade and a tracker by necessity, she follows the same impossible road with nothing but her horse, her notebook, and the certainty that Eli didn't disappear-he was kept. The last letter he wrote told her he had found exactly what he was looking for. Elena knows her brother. That's not how Eli writes when he's telling the truth.

The road leads them both to Silverthorn-a settlement deep in the high country where travelers arrive and never leave, held not by force but by a satisfaction so perfectly calibrated it feels like their own. Someone has been running this place for six years. Someone who knows that a person who feels complete doesn't ask questions. Doesn't look for the door. Doesn't want to go home.

But wanting can be buried. And what is buried can be found.

The Outlaw's Compass is a mythic Western of survival, secrets, and the cost of a road that knows you better than you know yourself.

For readers of literary Western fiction, mythic adventure, and character-driven mysteries set in the American West.

Book One of The Dustbound Chronicles.

Carmen Galloway | Live.Learn.Create