{"id":1881,"date":"2016-03-03T00:32:18","date_gmt":"2016-03-03T05:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.matthewcoxbooks.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=1881"},"modified":"2020-07-02T11:19:39","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T15:19:39","slug":"the-roadhouse-chronicles","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.matthewcoxbooks.com\/wordpress\/books\/the-roadhouse-chronicles\/","title":{"rendered":"The Roadhouse Chronicles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-envira-envira-gallery\"><div id=\"envira-gallery-wrap-4872\" class=\"envira-gallery-wrap envira-gallery-theme-base envira-lightbox-theme-base\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageGallery\"><div data-row-height=\"150\" data-gallery-theme=\"normal\" id=\"envira-gallery-4872\" class=\"envira-gallery-public envira-gallery-justified-public envira-gallery-0-columns envira-clear enviratope envira-gallery-css-animations\" data-envira-columns=\"0\"><div id=\"envira-gallery-item-3643\" class=\"envira-gallery-item enviratope-item envira-gallery-item-1 envira-lazy-load\" style=\"padding-left: 1px; 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The future couldn&#8217;t be called bright, but at least people believed they had one\u2015until The Virus started turning survivors into mindless killing machines thirty-five years after the bombs stopped falling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now, in 2073, the Roadhouse has established a sense of order among the various settlements, marauders, and the few poor bastards trying to survive on their own. Few have the guts to break The Code, or interfere with the men and women who\u2019ve managed to cobble together working vehicles to drive under a Roadhouse banner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But not all who sit behind the wheel are happy ducking bullets to move someone else&#8217;s worthless crap from town to town. Men like Kevin want more from life. He has dreams. He wants a Roadhouse of his own. He doesn\u2019t care about anything else until he finds a conscience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A conscience with bright blue eyes and snow white hair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.matthewcoxbooks.com\/wordpress\/books-gallery\/\">Return to Books Main<\/a> \u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.matthewcoxbooks.com\/wordpress\/series-list\/\">Return to Series List<\/a>    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Civilization came to an abrupt and fiery end in August of 2021. A primitive version of humanity crawled from the ashes decades later, re-establishing itself into a network of isolated settlements and camps. 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