A ragtag gang of teens teams up with a neighboring girl gang when a major cartel moves into town, threatening their families, their turf, and the community they've worked so hard to protect. ***** Cash West formed the Seven 20s - a gang of six overzealous teens with guns - to keep his tiny, crime-infested town in nowhere California safe. His methods are unorthodox and frankly illegal, but the town loves his Robin Hood heroics. However, the gang gets more than they bargained for when the Mendoza cartel rolls into town, determined to knock them off the map. As the threat hits closer to home, Cash has no choice but to team up with his ex-girlfriend Tiana's neighboring girl gang, the Hearts of Spades. Soon allies become enemies, families get trapped in the crossfire, and romance brews as Cash fights to unravel a massive conspiracy that puts everyone that matters to him at risk. When the stakes are life and death, will the gangs be able to overcome an enemy more powerful than any of them could have predicted? Book One of The Seven Twenties Series Content and Trigger Warning: contains violence, drug use, mentions of domestic abuse, and mature themes.

"Do ya? Do ya? Do ya? Now, do you think you love me, Mary Jane?" Mysterious murders beyond the understanding of science and the human brain are uncovered in the deepest, darkest parts of the deep south-following the rest of the world. Detective duo Satoru Gojo, the King of the East, and Suguru Geto are called upon by their jujutsu facility to investigate countless countries. On their search for the culprit, Gojo collides with a key piece to solving the complex puzzle that was Louisiana's mystical backroads, and she smells of Mary Jane. He thought a figure shrouded in mystery and intoxication could not claim a title equal to his, but she soon proved to him that she was, indeed, the King of the West. What came to follow the clashing of two kings was nothing short of heavenliness and cataclysm. [LATE 80'S!DEEP SOUTH!AU] [DETECTIVE!GOJO X BLACK!READER] [MINOR GETO X BLACK!READER] published June 9th, 2021

"Messy, you my Orange Soda shorty." A girl dreams of a boy who tastes just like her favorite fruit and shortly becomes determined to draw him away from the demons that lurk under his bed. Unbeknownst to her, that same scarily accurate sense of hers would be the cushion that'd save the boy's life from the shadow man with no promise of a real relationship forming-but she didn't mind only being a shoulder to lean on. After all, he was her 'crush'. [DEPRESSED!KUROO X BLACK!READER]