‘The Challenges We Endure’ is the second installment of the Good Vibe Trilogy. It continues the stories of Andrew ’Drew' Reubens and Alyona ‘Yoyo’ Zalenkov as they venture in different directions beyond High School and encounter the trials of the real world.Alyona’s father has whisked her off to live in a remote polygamist community, where she is groomed to serve as a sister-wife. However, when it's revealed that she lost her virginity, her life is turned upside down into a dark and horrific world of abuse and addiction. With the assistance of her long-lost brother, Yoyo struggles to escape and survive with dreams of being reunited with Drew and her friends back in New Jersey.Meanwhile, Drew pursues his college goals but falls back into the toxic relationship that plagued much of his final years in High School. Impulsive decisions begin a cascading impact that alters the direction of his own life. At the same time, other past connections offer him chances for redemption and renewal.A single day passes in the present-day component of the narrative as Viktoria continues to learn more about her origin story as the legacy of Drew and Yoyo’s journeys leap into the 1980s to tell the continuing story of their unlikely romance.The collection of characterful friends and family return from Book One, The Paradise We Create, to reflect on the events that impacted a myriad of storylines. Several new personalities are introduced to enhance the storytelling and unveil new twists that lay the groundwork for the ultimate destinies of the 'Good Vibe' family.The Good Vibe saga is a forty-year history of characters who navigate through the wonders, challenges, and destinies of human interplay. Along the way, they take on these dynamics, with juxtaposed tales of adolescent frivolity, dysfunctional family, enduring friendship, the depth of romance and sensuous love, criminal behavior, deception, success, failure, the thrill of knowledge, personal progression, and... a good dose of recovering from regrets.And ultimately seeking to balance 'what might have been' with everything happening at the place where reality meets up with all of it… for a reason.
