Stargazing at the June Bug Ranch

When Colton Travers was four months old, his parents pulled away for a weekend trip. They didn’t make it far down Bent Oak Road. A curve. A runaway horse. A car flipped. His mother, Bailey, died. His father, David, survived . . . then disappeared.

Raised by Grams and Papa Ed, Colton was steeped in family stories and faded photographs. Stories he clung to until the day Grams handed him a worn shoe box filled with old newspaper clippings that suggested a darker truth.

Colton was pulled into a fifty-year-old unsolved case. One day, life was ordinary. The next, he was fifty years behind and chasing justice for his mother.

The trail was cold from the beginning. No leads. No arrests. No answers. Nothing but silence stretched across five decades. Now, with the box open before him, Colton must uncover the secrets left behind and the mystery that still waits.

Stargazing at the June Bug Ranch is a story of family and betrayal, of unanswered questions, and a man forced to decide how far he will go in pursuit of justice. Memory holds the clues. Time keeps the truth. Justice demands satisfaction.