When Clay Morgan and his sidekick Twitch Mabry rode out of Texas for Kansas City to pick up Clay’s orphaned nephew and niece, they planned to make the return trip in the debatable comfort of a stagecoach.

They had no idea their return journey would be in a covered wagon, and that they would be saddled with a schoolmarm named Bill smuggling $25,000 into Texas; not to mention a niece who refused to talk and a nephew who would hire a cowpoke to clean Clay’s plow. An attack by a renegade band of Comanche and Choctaw Indians who were driven off with the help of Frank Fivekiller of the Cherokee Lighthorse fuels the fire on this wild ride; in addition to a betrayal by Clay’s best friend who wounded Clay and stole the $25,000.

Kent Conwell grew up in the Texas Panhandle in the town of Wheeler, population 848. The West was an integral part of his life. The solitude of the Panhandle, which offered little more than school and work, encouraged his reading and writing as well as his exploration of the vast emptiness of the rolling prairies. A quest for adventure had been woven into his life by his grandfather, who had run away from his Tennessee home when he was fourteen. He bullwhacked his way to the Panhandle where he met his future wife who had traveled from Illinois to Texas.

After moving to Fort Worth where Kent was more at home at the stockyards than 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 for writing about the West, a period in history unique to America, has never waned. After twenty-two westerns, he wrote his first mystery.

He has won awards for short stories, screenplays, mysteries, and westerns.

Angelina Showdown is Kent’s twenty-fifth western for AVALON. In addition, Kent has also written four mysteries 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