2023 PenCraft Book Awards — 1st Place Fiction-Thriller-General
2023 Literary Titan Silver Book Award – Winner
2023 Firebird Book Award — Winner
2022 Indies Today Award — Finalist
“Tyler Zahn is a hero to love — deeply wounded, undeniably flawed, but determined to do the right thing in Cam Torrens’ intensely dramatic debut thriller. The stakes of Zahn’s search-and-rescue work in Colorado’s Rocky Mountains have never been higher, or more personal. Trim your fingernails before you start this one.” — Martin J. Smith, author of the Edgar, Anthony, and Barry Award-nominated “Memory Series” novels of psychological suspense, and the stand-alone thriller “Combustion.”
Stable pulls you in and won’t let go. Search and Rescue expert Tyler Zahn is a hero as likable as he is fiercely capable. And, when a kidnapper abducts his daughter, Zahn will stop at nothing to find her. Stable will have you holding your breath all the way to a harrowing, edge-of-your-seat ending. — Brooke L. French, author of Inhuman Acts and The Carolina Variant
Colorado-style adventure and enthralling suspense. The characters are vivid, the dialogue is spot-on, and the tension never lets up. But Stable isn’t just a thriller—it’s a layered, compelling story that delves into the complexities of trauma, grief, family ties, and most of all, forgiveness. Looking forward to more from this author! —Regina Buttner, author of Down a Bad Road
Stable crackles with suspense! Nestled in the wild beauty of Colorado’s Rocky Mountains, the small town of Buena Vista is a peaceful retreat from the troubles of the modern world. Until the girls begin to disappear—first one, then another. The time to find them—and whoever is taking them—is running out. In Stable, Cam Torrens has created an edge-of-your-seat, cheer-on-the-heroes, just-one-more-chapter great read!—Joan M. Griffin, author of Force of Nature, Three Women Tackle the John Muir Trail
A kidnapper hiding in plain sight. A rural town with tons of suspects. From debut author Cam Torrens comes a gut-wrenching suspense novel based on an actual missing person case.
A 911 call sends Search & Rescue on a search for a missing girl in the Collegiate Peaks. They find a child . . . but not the one they seek.
Air Force pilot Tyler Zahn’s life disintegrated when he lost his son. He discarded his family, his career, and his dignity, finding solace in apathy and beer. Eight years later, armed with new confidence, he invites his estranged daughter, Daria, to visit his Rocky Mountain home. Zahn tries too hard to mend their relationship, and as the tension between father and daughter increases, forgiveness seems out of reach. Especially when his Search & Rescue work pulls him away from Daria and she finds romance at the church camp next door.
But Zahn can’t get the missing girl he found—and the one he can’t find—out of his mind. Someone in this mountain valley is collecting children, and Zahn is gradually drawn into the case while still trying to break through to his daughter.
Then she disappears too.
RELEASED July 20, 2023.
2023 Firebird Book Award - Winner
2023 Literary Titan Silver Book Award - Winner
2023 BestThriller Award - Finalist
“When a trusted colleague goes missing, search and rescue expert Tyler Zahn relies on his experience and instincts to find her. But the deeper he digs, the more he wonders if he really knows her at all.”— Gail Ward Olmsted, best-selling author of Miranda Writes and Miranda Nights.
“Torrens has done it again! A thought-provoking story about relationships and communication wrapped inside an action-packed thriller with suspects at every turn like a Knives Out mystery.”— Lena Gibson, award-winning author of The Edge of Life: Love and Survival During the Apocalypse.
“Set in the beautiful landscape of Colorado, Cam Torrens’ False Summit is a mind-bending mystery that will keep you guessing, literally to the last page. Well-paced, and with unrelenting suspense, don’t be surprised if you read this story in a single sitting.”— Chris Riley, author of The Sinking of the Angie Piper and The Broken Pines.
“Cam Torrens takes the reader on an edge-of-your-seat thrilling ride through Colorado’s The Three Apostles mountain peaks. His book, False Summit, features mystery, intrigue, and danger and never lets up in a thoroughly captivating story.”— Christopher Amato, author of Shadow Investigation.
Chaffee County Search & Rescue is known for finding lost people in the Rocky Mountain backcountry. But they’ve never lost one of their own before.
Cam Torrens, author of Stable, has written another psychological thriller that will have readers racing to answer the question…what happened to Kristee Li?
Veteran pilot Tyler Zahn is finally recovering from the tragedies that cost him his family and drove him from the Air Force, when his best friend, Kristee Li, disappears on a remote search and rescue mission. A massive effort to find her fails. No clues. No body. Kristee is presumed dead.
A fellow team member claims the disappearance is no accident and Zahn begins to question what really happened in the mountains. Who would have wanted Kristee dead? More importantly…why? Plagued with grief, Zahn probes for answers while slowly slipping into the familiar depression he’s worked so hard to escape.
False Summit proves when it comes to money, sexuality, and cultural norms, the truth is in short supply.