Zephyr Trails

· Bay Feather Books · Narrated by Rebecca Stern
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Winner of the Independent Publishers Book Award! (IPPY)

Winner of the Literary Titan Award!


The fine line between friends and enemies blurs as Ellis Cady sets out to reach the new frontier of post-Civil War America.

After waiting out winter at the Cady ranch in southern Missouri, hope blooms in the Spring of 1866. Ellis receives news of a mysterious man arriving in St. Louis. Will she find her father alive and well, or finally put his memory to rest?

Grasping at the illusive promise of her father’s whereabouts, Ellis is distracted by the intrepid trick rider, Jimmie, a woman who rides with Levi Jack’s Wild West Exhibition. Then, talk of reinstating a messenger service akin to the Pony Express rekindles a faded dream. Since the war’s devastation, important letters and messages still need to get through a Western landscape governed by Indians and outlaws. When an untimely epidemic threatens, Ellis finds herself back in the saddle, a young woman and her horse on a perilous trail.

About the author

Nicki's debut novel, Ellis River, is the 2023 winner of the Independent Book Publishers Association's Bill Fisher Award for Best First Book - Fiction. The novel was also a finalist for the Eric Hoffer First Horizons Award, received an Honorable Mention for the Eric Hoffer Grand Prize, and was a semi-finalist for the Publishers Weekly Booklife Prize. Nicki Ehrlich's novel, Zephyr Trails, is the second in the Ellis River trilogy. Zephyr Trails has won a gold Independent Publishers Book Award (IPPY), the Literary Titan Gold Award, and received outstanding reviews from Kirkus Reviews and Publishers Weekly Booklife. Nicki is now at work on the third book of the trilogy. Nicki holds a Certificate in Creative Writing from Monterey Peninsula College and is a member of the Independent Book Publishers Association, the Alliance for Independent Authors, the Authors Guild, and the Central Coast branch of the California Writers Club. You can find her on her website, Instagram, and Goodreads.

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