EVEN THOUGH HE WAS LEAVING Las Vegas with only seventeen dollars in his pocket, John Wade felt like he’d hit the jackpot. His two days in Vegas had been the greatest of his life. He’d met a girl—not just any girl, but the girl of his dreams—and her name was Carleigh. It used to be Carleigh Daniels, but that was before they’d been married at the Eternal Bliss Chapel for $200, and she’d become Mrs. John Wade.
John had gone to Vegas to visit his old chum Bryan Terwilliger, whom he hadn’t seen in nearly three years. Back in high school, John, Bryan, and their friends Chad, Mike, and Riley had been inseparable. Unfortunately all of that had changed after graduation. Chad had taken a rather lengthy hiatus upstate on r**e charges. Riley had married an insufferable ballbreaker, effectively puttin
