# Rising Through the Ranks
## Complete Novel
### Chapter 1
Anna Walters stood at her bedroom window, watching the sun rise over the rundown trailer park that had been home for seventeen years. The peeling paint on neighboring trailers caught the golden light, but Anna saw only possibility beyond the horizon. Her mother's gentle snoring drifted from the next room, exhausted from another double shift at the diner.
On her desk lay acceptance letters from three colleges, each representing a future her mother could never afford. Anna traced her fingers over the scholarship offer from the state university—partial funding, enough to give her a chance if she worked hard enough. She thought of her mother's calloused hands, the bills stuffed behind the sugar jar, the dreams they'd whispered about during late-night conversations.
Today was graduation day. Tomorrow, she'd start planning her escape—not from her mother, but toward a future where poverty wouldn't define them anymore.