Brandon Enns

Brandon Enns writes independent fiction that turns travel into a test of trust and perception. Islanders sends two young couples from New York to a privately owned island off Belize, where their host, Stefan, proposes an unusual holiday game. He asks the visitors to identify nineteenth-century mercenaries who attacked the island after a royal family was driven from the mainland. What begins as an invented historical puzzle becomes urgent when one traveler disappears and the group can no longer be sure that leaving is possible. Enns published the current 282-page edition of Islanders through Draft2Digital in 2020, while independent bibliographic listings date the novel's first appearance to 2018. Apple Books identifies Enns as both author and publisher, making the publication route part of Islanders' documented edition history. Enns keeps the island setting active in the story: isolation narrows the characters' choices, local legend distorts what they think they know, and a recreational mystery becomes a question of who controls the narrative.