Retired CSI agent, now contract killer, Esmeralda "Belladona" Videau Baltazar, suffers from post traumatic disorder , after seeing her brother, Jordan Mallo, get brutally murdered.
Now 8 years after his death , Esmeralda decided to start a new life,unknown , by moving to New York. On the way there,she gets a phone call by a Cuban hospital, that her sister has been brutally beaten and that her best-friend is missing. With no other way to go, Esmeralda decides to go back to Cuba ,avenging her sister's death and to find her best-friend.
Offer to disguise as a prostitute with the help of an ex-CSI partner, she must find all information about the Cuban cartel leaders and humantrafficers, without getting caught.
She must find away to survive.But how does she keep her sanity when all goes wrong?
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.
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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.