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Ten years after traveling to Wyoming to straighten out his life and discover the truth about a friend's death...
Ten years after his love affair with Bit Stifel...
Ten years after killing two men...
Hank chandler returns to the Lazy T ranch on Forty Rod Road to visit a dying Hope Stifel and seek closure. Riding along with him is his girlfriend, Stevie Pignatelli, who must come to terms with Hank's past and what awaits them at the end of Forty Rod Road.
Ten years after his love affair with Bit Stifel...
Ten years after killing two men...
Hank chandler returns to the Lazy T ranch on Forty Rod Road to visit a dying Hope Stifel and seek closure. Riding along with him is his girlfriend, Stevie Pignatelli, who must come to terms with Hank's past and what awaits them at the end of Forty Rod Road.
378 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 8, 2024
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About the author
Grove N. Mower
3 books4 followersI grew up and currently live in the Midwest (St. Louis and Chicago), and have spent time in the East as well as on ranches out West. For the past forty years I worked in financial services in New York and Chicago, the last twenty-five years managing family wealth (“dusty money”), and the most recent fifteen, writing novels in my spare time.
I get it. Reading is hard. Books take time. Time is precious. We are all exhausted by the digital intrusion, the vitriol, the nonsense. We need a break. An escape. More fun in our lives—think Ted Lasso.
My solution: Fun, fast fiction. Call it what it is: bubble gum with a pop—two Butterfingers and a Coke—a second glass of wine with your feet up
It’s tougher today. Covid. Anxiety. Talking heads screaming at you from every angle and channel. Being told what to think and do. Emails. Texts. Facebook. Twitter. Instagram. It’s exhausting and does not stop.
But you can. Stop, that is, by reading my stories that are primarily meant to entertain. They won’t move you unless to turn the page or to get another glass of wine. These are simple tales with a beginning, a middle, and an end. They contain themes and plots, but what is most important are the characters and the details in between that keep you from chucking the book across the room with a I don’t have time for this. Those little clues, utterances, details, and twists that leave you on the precipice of the ah-ha and the ha-ha. That’s my goal.
Forty Rod Road, and its sequel, Hope, are mature coming-of-age novels set in the West, Midwest, and East during the 1970s and 80s. The Dusty Money trilogy is a modern-day romp through Chicago and its North Shore suburbs: Dusty Money is a story where love and money compete and collide; Amos and Ike is about coming of age and unresolved love; last, A Christmas Storm finds a family knee-deep in holiday mishegoss.
Music is interwoven throughout my novels, the soundtracks of which can be found on the links to Spotify with each book.
Read. Hum along. Be transported back or whisked away.
I hope you enjoy my stories as much as I enjoyed writing them.
- Grove
I get it. Reading is hard. Books take time. Time is precious. We are all exhausted by the digital intrusion, the vitriol, the nonsense. We need a break. An escape. More fun in our lives—think Ted Lasso.
My solution: Fun, fast fiction. Call it what it is: bubble gum with a pop—two Butterfingers and a Coke—a second glass of wine with your feet up
It’s tougher today. Covid. Anxiety. Talking heads screaming at you from every angle and channel. Being told what to think and do. Emails. Texts. Facebook. Twitter. Instagram. It’s exhausting and does not stop.
But you can. Stop, that is, by reading my stories that are primarily meant to entertain. They won’t move you unless to turn the page or to get another glass of wine. These are simple tales with a beginning, a middle, and an end. They contain themes and plots, but what is most important are the characters and the details in between that keep you from chucking the book across the room with a I don’t have time for this. Those little clues, utterances, details, and twists that leave you on the precipice of the ah-ha and the ha-ha. That’s my goal.
Forty Rod Road, and its sequel, Hope, are mature coming-of-age novels set in the West, Midwest, and East during the 1970s and 80s. The Dusty Money trilogy is a modern-day romp through Chicago and its North Shore suburbs: Dusty Money is a story where love and money compete and collide; Amos and Ike is about coming of age and unresolved love; last, A Christmas Storm finds a family knee-deep in holiday mishegoss.
Music is interwoven throughout my novels, the soundtracks of which can be found on the links to Spotify with each book.
Read. Hum along. Be transported back or whisked away.
I hope you enjoy my stories as much as I enjoyed writing them.
- Grove
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May 28, 2020
This was a great read - I loved the setting of NYC in the 80s!
This is a sequel to Mower's "Forty Rod Road" but you don't need to have read the first one to enjoy the second one.
Highly recommend!
This is a sequel to Mower's "Forty Rod Road" but you don't need to have read the first one to enjoy the second one.
Highly recommend!
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