The Forsaken Cowboy

The Forsaken Cowboy

by Anna Laurila

Once a rodeo prodigy, then a sniper, then a writer, then a walking disaster —

Now, Mark Antonio Miller is making headlines for all the wrong reasons. Again.

He lives alone in a run-down apartment in the South Bronx, high on heroin and low on expectations. Once the nation’s golden boy — Marine, columnist, father — he now avoids sunlight, paperwork, and anything that smells like help.

But when a government agent shows up with questions about his past, Mark is forced to confront what happened overseas. And what it did to him. And what — or who — he left behind.

The Forsaken Cowboy is a queer literary novel about survival, shame, and love that refuses to disappear.

It’s not about war. It’s about what comes after.

And who’s left standing in the ruins.