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Travis Warman
Narrative Architect
Travis Warman did not set out to be a writer. He started writing what would become the bones of his debut novel, The Quiet Man, while serving in the U.S. Army at Fort Riley, Kansas, from 2011 to 2013, on long nights snowed into the barracks or staying in to save money. The streets of nearby Junction City would later become the foundation for Serial Husbands. Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, he left the military in 2013, finished college, and trained as a clinical pharmacist in Arizona, where he now lives with his husband James and the son they are raising together.
He began writing because he could not find what he was looking for on the shelf. He wanted crime fiction where queer characters carried the full moral weight of the story, where they were allowed the same depth, contradiction, and capacity for harm that the genre has always granted its most memorable protagonists. When he could not find those books, he started writing them.
His current work centers on The Ledger Network, a series of interconnected queer stories built on procedural realism, queer interiority, and the architecture of secrets. LGBTQIA+ characters are allowed to be morally gray, villainous, complicated, and never reduced to a side role, a trope, or a cliché. Serial Husbands is the first volume to reach the surface, releasing July 1st, 2026.
The work is built on clinical discipline, procedural detail, and a long-running argument with the genre about who is allowed to be complicated. The goal is not comfort. The goal is to leave the reader asking what they would have done in the same room, and whether they would have done any better. Every record is human-authored.
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They are the perfect neighbors. They are also judge, jury, and executioner.
Michael Denton and Ryan Hayes have spent years hunting the predators who walk free from courtrooms and disappear back into ordinary life. They are methodical, careful, and certain of their purpose. Every kill is logged in a heavily encrypted dark-web archive called The Ledger. A permanent record of everything they have done.
Their system has held for years. Then they make a choice that cannot be taken back.
When fifteen-year-old Julia Harrison goes missing, Junction City floods the streets to search. Michael and Ryan are out there with everyone else, organizing the neighborhood watch, knocking on doors, showing up exactly as the town expects them to. Devoted husbands. Good neighbors. The kind of men everyone is glad to have around.
Detective Kayla Schultz takes the case and starts working the timeline. The facts don't line up. The gaps are in the wrong places. The story the town believes doesn't hold. The further she digs, the more convinced she becomes that Julia Harrison's disappearance connects to something darker and closer to home than anyone wants to admit.
Michael cannot stop thinking about what they did. Ryan will do anything to protect what they have built. And somewhere in The Ledger, the record sits untouched, every entry intact, proof of a history that cannot be erased.
Schultz is getting closer. The husbands are running out of time.
Serial Husbands is a dark suburban noir and police procedural about a missing girl, two careful men, and a secret buried just beneath the surface of an ordinary street.
