The Last Real Place

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Award-winning writer of <em>Wyatt Earp An American Odyssey </em>winner of the 2020 Will Rogers Medallion Award a 2019 Spur Award Finalist and an Editor's Choice by <em>The Historical Novel Society</em></strong></p><p></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Stoney St. Ney's love interest Abby comes face to face with trauma in her North Carolina high school when two students go on a shooting rampage in the library. Concerned about her safety Stoney leaves Camp Itawa in the off-season to offer moral and physical support to Abby but the local sheriff does not welcome Stoney's presence.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>When the teenaged runaways avoid capture by law enforcement and disappear into the nearby Smoky Mountain National Park Stoney and his Cherokee friend and mentor Bobby Whitehorse know that it is they who have the best chance of tracking down the two young outlaws. </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-center><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Praise for Mark Warren</strong></p><p class=ql-align-center></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Woven with clarity and colorful prose Warren leads readers on an odyssey . . . -</span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>True West Magazine<em> </em></strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>on </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Promised Land</em></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>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. -</span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>New Zealand Booklovers<em> </em></strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>on </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Promised Land</em></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Warren's novel paints a vivid picture . . . and its colorful similes will put a smile on any genre-fiction lover's face. -</span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Booklist</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> on </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Born to the Badge</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p></p>