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When nineteen-year-old David Ward climbs the sacred mountain Nináistuko seeking a vision, the golden eagle of earth flings him back onto the prairie and the black horse of dreams shows him the future. Though his eyes are opened, fate hides exactly what he needs to know. The gritty saga that follows leads him through the mountains of Pakistan, the swamps of North Florida, the beaches of Hawaii, the waters of the South China Sea and the ivy-covered halls of an Illinois college as he attempts to sort out the shattered puzzle of his life.

"Garden of Heaven" is a thought provoking novel, recommended, FIVE STARS" --Midwest Book Review

"Like the odyssey novels of old this epic is sure to capture your mind as you twist and turn through an ever morphing journey until you reach the end. I recommend this book to those with a vivid imagination and a mind ready to see a larger scene." -- Brian Knight

"As the title suggests, this is an odyssey, but it is also a character study, of the young man named David. Readers can easily connect with David’s questions and journeys of life. 'Garden of Heaven' is a long read, but it is a pleasure to read. I recommend the book to everyone." -- Billy Burgess

Garden of Heaven: an Odyssey

Malcolm R. Campbell

Three companion novels set in the mountains of Glacier National Park.

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While Garden of Heaven's characters also appear in The Sun Singer (2004) and Sarabande (2011) each of these novels can also be read and enjoyed as a standalone story.

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Dreaming in Fiction

One of the benefits of writing fiction is allowing your characters to live out some of the dreams you never got around to.

When I was a child, I didn't want to run a train. Later in life, I imagined sitting in the right-hand seat of a passenger locomotive on the head end of the Great Northern Railway's trains that served Glacier National Park.

Both the Western Star and the Empire Builder (now an AMTRAK train) brought guests to the park's hotels, hotels that were built and run by the railroad itself until 1950.

I was never able to hire on with the railroad. But, in Garden of Heaven, my protagonist David Ward is given a chance to run the Western Star for a few miles across the Montana high line track en route to Chicago.

As David ran the famous train, I could pretend one of my dreams had come true.