The spark for Buried by the Roan is a dead hunter on the shore of Oyster Lake, deep in the Flat Tops Wilderness. Josh Keating's demise could be a case of a hunter drinking too much and stumbling late at night. Or it could be something much worse. Plenty of other strange things are going on to make hunting guide Allison Coil think the death is no accident. Someone is lurking around, leaving odd notes and maps. Hunters and guides are turning up violently ill from drinking the Flat Tops water. Four of the buffalo on Keating's ranch are slaughtered. And there's word that Keating and his neighbor were tangled up in a property dispute triggered by a centuries-old doctrine known as adverse possession. The future of the way of life in the rugged Colorado mountains is at stake.

Mark Stevens grew up in Massachusetts. He was raised by two librarians. By law, he was required to grow up loving books. And writing. Today, he lives in Colorado. He writes the Allison Coil Mystery Series-Antler Dust, Buried by the Roan, Trapline, Lake of Fire and The Melancholy Howl (2018). Kirkus Reviews called Lake of Fire "irresistible" and The Melancholy Howl "smart and indelible." Mark was the 2016 Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers' Writer of the Year. Website: www.writermarkstevens.com