One mouth after the battle of Crait, the resistance are reduced to ashes living in a hollow shell of what was once a mighty ship, the Falcon home to thirty souls lost in a great war. With Luke Skywalker is dead and Leia injured, Rey, the last Jedi along with friends Finn, Rose, Poe and Jess are left to lead the remaining resistance members to a safe location.
The first order and their armada of troopers are gaining power over all major star systems, destroying any who apposed them. Their aim to capture or kill any resistance sypesises to eliminate any remaining hope for the galaxy, to eliminate any threat to their power. Kylo Ren, the newly appointed Supreme Leader is obsessed with finding the resistance and capturing Rey, his hope to turn her to the dark side.
Amongst the calm chaos Leia and a small band of rebels travel to Nova, seeking help from her friend, Lando to bring down the First Order or they will be doomed to live in fear under the rule of the mad tyrants. Who can they trust, friends? Family? Nobody, not even their fellow members? will they be forced to hide in the shadows forever or will hope be their saving grace.
With the galaxy in chaos a new threat rises greater than the Knights of Ren, a new danger that has unbalanced the force, a new enemy that will stop at nothing until the resistance is destroyed and the First Order an allie.
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.