OGALLALA, by Eric Eichhorn

Bennett Edwards is divorced, distant from his college-age son, and desperate to feel something again. So he does the only reasonable thing: drives from New York to Michigan to track down his long-lost college girlfriend. When that plan fizzles, he agrees—without much thought—to drive her MMA-fighter daughter, Zoe, and her crusty trainer Hector to a bout in Utah.

Somewhere between cornfields, sketchy motels, and a trucker who doesn’t drive trucks, Bennett realizes this trip isn’t just about a fight. It’s about a body. In a trunk. One Bennett is suddenly responsible for helping dispose of—piece by piece. And then he sees the tattoo.

Now tangled in a crime he never meant to commit and fiercely protective of a girl he barely knows, Bennett must reckon with what connection actually costs—and what it’s worth.

Darkly funny, unexpectedly tender, and packed with bad decisions and weirder friendships, OGALLALA is a story of second chances, sharp turns, and what happens when a man finally stops running from himself.