For twelve years, four months, and six days, Jed Walker doggedly clung to one goal: kill the five owlhoots who had shot him and murdered his brother.

Only after he was nursed back to health after a second ambush did he begin to realize that his hate-filled mission came at an expensive price, years wasted from his own life.

Then, after all that time, the trail grew hot. Jed pursues two of the remaining three killers through Southeast Texas to Sabinetown where he learns the identity of the third man. The third man turns out to be the one who not only nursed him back to health, but became his friend in the meantime.

In anguish, Jed Walker stands at the crossroads of his life. How can he kill the man who saved his life?

Kent Conwell grew up in the wide-open Texas Panhandle in the town of Wheeler, population 848. His love for the West came naturally, as his grandfather had run away from his Tennessee home when he was fourteen and bullwhacked his way to the Panhandle where he met his future wife who had also traveled west to Texas.

After moving to Fort Worth, where Kent was more at home at the stockyards than at school, he earned a B.S. and began teaching. Later, he moved to Port Neches where he acquired a M.Ed. and Ph.D. A successful educator, his love of writing about the West, a period in history unique to America, has never waned. He has won awards for short stories, screenplays, mysteries, and westerns.

An Eye for an Eye is Kent’s twenty-third western for AVALON.

Avalon Westerns by Kent Conwell:
GRAVE FOR A DEAD GUNFIGHTER
ATASCOCITA GOLD
JUNCTION FLATS DRIFTER
PROMISE TO A DEAD MAN
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
THE CRYSTAL SKULL MURDERS
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