Two tales making up the series, IIRC.
MC divorced; his ex has upgraded to a more suitably snooty husband. MC buys scrap yard (/junk yard). Ex turns up one day and dumps rebellious teen daughter on him. Much gang-related violence.
Hope that's enough.
The author is https://storiesonline.net/a/todd-d172
All of the stories are in the https://storiesonline.net/universe/921/tales-from-the-shack Universe and tie into the other stories there but are partially stand-alone:
1 - https://storiesonline.net/s/18342/the-shack-an-angry-man
2 - https://storiesonline.net/s/18872/the-shack-an-unreasonable
3 - https://storiesonline.net/s/19218/the-shack-an-implacable
https://storiesonline.net/s/18347/the-shack-ladykiller is set between 2 and 3 and supplies some background info to 3.
This is a subsection of the Tales from the Shack Universe by Todd_d172
The Shack: An Angry Man
The Shack: An Unreasonable Man
The Shack: An Implacable Man
The whole Shack series is very well done, I highly recommend it.
limab
And - given that I know the tales that well - I agree with your recommendation. That's enough harmony for now.
Thank you, both!
Great to see that there's now a third in the (sub-) series.
And yes, I agree that the whole Tales from the Shack series is well worth reading (I re-read "Ladykiller" just the other day, without realising that the stories I was looking for were part of the same series).
The connection is that Delaney has a couple of new friends from a camp she went to, they are the two girls who cross-examined Hollywood to see if he was "worthy".
Weren't the stories by Shackspear?
You're getting confused, shackspeare wrote the 'house in the woods' stories, well, so it was thought, until historians shed light on the truth, barnaby chaletcabin actually wrote them.
Hey sol_3. If you dug those for the style, you might try running through the whole series. More than a common universe, the stories interlock sort of MCU style.
Some are solid tales of one character... or maybe a team-up with another in side kick mode. Usually people from other stories are referred to or perhaps drift through a current story. And then occasionally there is an Avengers style romp with many heroes (or rejects, junkies and Monsters in this case) all coming together.
For those who care, here is what I believe to be the chronological timeline:
The Marker
Learning the Smugglers Blues
1 Blue Topaz Eyes
7 Gun Gun Teddy Bear
3 Monster
2 Shameless
4 Pogo and Spooky
5 Nobody
The Guardians
Necessary Evil
6 Pogo's Very Long Day
8 Behind Blue Eyes
A Parable of Wolves (starts before "Shameless")
Somewhere, definitely after "8 Behind Blue Eyes": An_Angry_Man and its sequel An_Unreasonable_Man.
Ladykiller is also set fairly late. They are followed by An Implacable Man.
