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The Grove
The Grove
The Grove
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The Grove

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"The Grove," blends history and fiction to describe how after twenty five years, two former college sweethearts, Colonel Benton Farley and Archeologist Kate Kaplan re-unite on a quest to resolve a 500 year old Legend.

Deep in America"s heartland, at the edge of the western prairie, the mysterious Grove still stands, never touched by the farmer's plow or the forester's axe. The Legend has discouraged development.

"The Grove," marks the arrival of a mystery with an ending like none told before. Benton and Kate risk their lives and those of others to explore a dark, ageless place where the impossible is reality.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherXlibris US
Release dateJul 26, 2013
ISBN9781483659312
The Grove
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Tony Stansberry

Tony Stansberry grew up on a farm in Southwest Missouri, where the eastern, hardwood forests meet the western prairie. He is an educator with three graduate degrees and forty-five years in public education. He is also a graduate of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College with the retired rank of Brigadier General. Currently, Tony serves as the Kansas City Area Instructional Supervisor for the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. He and his wife, Christine, live in Shawnee, Kansas near their daughter and two grandsons.

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