Shaneghai

Paul and Ruby Sue both come from different lives. Paul came from a mining family in the Rocky Mountains of Montana. He was told from an early age that he would never amount to anything, and a traumatic experience as a child left him mentally scarred for the rest of his life. Ruby Sue never had the luxury of rebelling against a menial life. She grew up in trailer parks and cars across the Southwest, before finally settling into desperate poverty in the dense marshes of Northeast Texas. Fists, switches, TV remotes, cigarettes, backhands, hot coffee; you name it, she’s had it used as a weapon against her. After both seeing their lives wasting away in front of them, they take the only escape route they can: the military. They meet on an Army base in Oklahoma, and from first sight, they see something in each other. She thought he could do great things, and he agreed. He would conquer the world, and she would help him do it, or so they thought, but drugs, mental illness, more money than they'd ever seen before and more problems with the law than either would ever imagine would put their dreams, love for each other and even their sanity to the ultimate test. What happens when money can't buy happiness? What do you do when you can't even trust your own thoughts? Who do you turn to when you've compromised your integrity one time too many? They escaped their old lives once before, but can anyone truly escape themselves? (This was originally written in 2019, and was in the early stages of being published before covid changed the world and that all fell through. So, here it is for you all to hopefully enjoy. It was originally written as the first of three novels, but all of them will be added into one collection here.)

** You can find Book One here: https://www.webnovel.com/book/beacon-book-one-endless-winter_11183921206283205** A lot has changed in the city of Beacon in the past year-and-a-half. Vicky is juggling learning the ins-and-outs of being an underworld boss in training, while finalizing her and Rose's fast-approaching wedding. Luke is trying to stay sober and repair his fractured relationship with Vicky while running his own club. Sunny is taking in credits hand-over-fist and expanding her empire with a new opiate-derived street drug called Fade. Everything's looking up, right? Unfortunately, an influential Northern family leader in the 14 Tribes, and Neon's uncle, Arnie Whitelock, is having a host of legal problems, and he's making those problems everyone's problems. This throws a wrench into Sunny's operation, and sparks a powder keg that leads to devastating results.

**You can read book two here: https://www.webnovel.com/book/beacon-book-two-for-the-ones-we-love-to-the-ones-we-hate_19498374306621405** Hundreds of years after a brutal nuclear war wipes out most of humanity, only one mega-city remains: Beacon. With millions of residents and dozens of sprawling districts, it is controlled by The Empress, a seemingly immortal woman who created it from the ashes of the old world. But, behind her and her royal court, the city is really run by a vast network of criminal families known as The 14 Tribes. Vicky De Santos and Luke Thompson belong to one of those families. Vicky's aunt Sunny is the head of the Morrella family, and when she and Luke aren't running a nightclub to sell drugs and launder money for her, they're taking care of any unwanted thorns in Sunny's side. Unfortunately, taking care of one of those thorns sets in motion a series of events that would change all of their lives forever. This story was originally written in 2013 and published here in 2018. I decided to look it over and make some serious changes. This is the complete first book, with the second coming sometime in 2022. Thank you all for reading!

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