OFF THE MAP ( BOOK ONE OF THE FALSE TRAIL CASES)

Every missing hiker carried the same map, showing a trail that does not exist.

When three hikers vanish from a remote Colorado national park, National Park Service Special Agent Maya Torres is assigned to determine how they disappeared without leaving a reliable trail. Search teams find abandoned equipment, conflicting GPS records, and identical paper maps marked with an unofficial route.

The trail appears nowhere in park records.

Someone has installed counterfeit signs deep in the wilderness, deliberately guiding selected hikers away from maintained paths. Their GPS data has been corrupted, emergency calls have been misdirected, and every search has begun in the wrong place.

As Maya follows the false route, she discovers that it leads toward a restricted government site erased from public maps. Park officials deny knowing it exists, federal agencies refuse to answer her questions, and a surviving witness insists the missing hikers were being watched long before they entered the forest.

Now another hiker has received the same map.

With time running out, Maya must uncover who created the false trail and why certain people are never meant to find their way back.

OFF THE MAP is Book One of THE FALSE TRAIL CASES, a tense police procedural wilderness horror novel of disappearances, corrupted evidence, federal secrets, and a path that should never have existed.