"Tell me, what would you do if you had to lose everything?
Would you go mad?
Would you crumbled down, crushed by your immense guilt?
Or would you ran down like a vengeful predator in search for its prey, not once caring on whom it steps over, even if they are innocents.
Tell me, girl, are you ready to become the monster you are chasing?
It was already too late when I learned, too late when I understood how much the world was cruel and unforgiving. Too late when I realized I had forgotten the few rules to follow.
Rule number one: never trust strangers, for you don't know who is behind the mask.
Rule number two: never trust kind words, because behind every sweet smile a lie is hiding.
Rule number three: never take anything for granted, for life is a thief, and every thief likes to steal.
But now it was too late, and they were completely useless, lying forgotten under the broken desk, stained with tears and shattered glass.
Now the only rule I can follow is the rules rage dictates, made of blood and cold red eyes, where everything is allowed, and where monsters find power.
Now, there is only one thing I desire, only one thing I crave with the last pieces of my stone-cold heart and beaten body.
To carry out my promise, the last one I will make.
I will find you.
I will kill you.
I will have my revenge over your dead broken bodies.
And if I have to become a monster to do so?
Well, so a monster I will be.
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.