Gabe Harrison wanted no part of the Civil War. He took the stationmaster’s job for the Pony Express at Friday’s Station on the south shore of Lake Tahoe for the winter, planning on using his pay as down payment on a ranch in Wyoming.

Then he was broadsided by a blizzard of a different sort, a blizzard consisting of orphaned children, a newborn baby, a Washoe maiden, a one-arm Paiute boy named Friday, and a band of Union soldiers with a wagonload of gold. When these soldiers start acting peculiar, it is up to Gabe to figure out their scheme and protect his growing “family.”

If that mix weren’t enough, the Paiute Indians went on the rampage, burning waystations up and down the Pony Express line. And before Gabe could whistle Dixie, he found himself fighting alongside the Johnny Rebs.

Kent Conwell grew up in the wide-open Texas Panhandle in the town of Wheeler, population 848. When his family moved to Fort Worth, he spent more time at the stockyards than school, but he managed to finish college.

He moved to Port Neches, Texas, married, earned a M.Ed. and Ph.D. and achieved a successful career in education, but his love for writing and the West never waned. He has won awards for short stories, screenplays, mysteries, and westerns.

Friday’s Station is Kent’s eighteenth western for AVALON.

Avalon Westerns by Kent Conwell:
ATASCOCITA GOLD
JUNCTION FLATS DRIFTER
PROMISE TO A DEAD MAN
PALO DURO SHOOTOUT
BOWIE'S SILVER
ANGELINA SHOWDOWN
GUNFIGHT AT FRIO CANYON
AN EYE FOR AN EYE
A HANGING IN HIDETOWN
THE GAMBLING MAN
RED RIVER CROSSING
A WAGON TRAIN FOR BRIDES
FRIDAY'S STATION
SIDETRIP TO SAND SPRINGS
VALLEY OF GOLD
THE ALAMO TRAIL
PAINTED COMANCHE TREE
THE GHOST OF THE BLUE BONE MESA
BUMPO, BILL, AND THE GIRLS
LAUGHING GIRL CREEK
JIM WELLS
GLITTER OF GOLD
TEXAS ORPHAN TRAIN
BLOOD BROTHERS
THE GOLD OF BLACK MOUNTAIN

Avalon Mysteries by Kent Conwell:
THE RIDDLE OF MYSTERY INN

The Tony Boudreaux Mystery Series
DEATH IN THE FRENCH QUARTER
THE SWAMPS OF BAYOU TECHE
EXTRACURRICULAR MURDER
THE YING ON TRIAD
VICKSBURG
DEATH IN THE DISTILLERY
SKELETONS OF THE ATCHAFALAYA
GALVESTON