"You sure know how to piss me off. Tell me Rowan,-" Judah sneered my name in my ear.
"Jesus, I know my name. Why'd you sneer it at me?" I interrupted him, knowing that was one of the things that pissed him off. He made an animal like growl, and slammed me into the door behind me. It not only knocked the breath out of me, but it also pissed me off.
Who the hell does he think he is, touching me like that? All I saw was red and threw a punch at his jaw. Judah stumbled back and held his jaw with an angered expression on his face. "Don't ever fucking touch me like that again, am I clear? Sure, I saved your nephew, but I owe you nothing more and you owe me nothing more. Stay away from me, Judah. You and your little boy band." And with that, I walked out slamming the door behind me so hard, the pictures in the hall fell, causing the glass to shatter.
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Rowan grew up in a shitty town. In a shitty neighborhood. And in an even shittier family. Her older sisters would beat the living shit out of her, and her parents would threaten her with death. They'd always brag about how they're in one of the most powerful gangs and they could easily make her disappear without a trace. The one thing that kept her going was her baby sister. She was only two and she was already getting the same treatment as Rowan. Rowan said 'Fuck. That.' and took off with her baby sister. Now she's living with her childhood best friend, and working as a manager at a tattoo shop, thousands and thousands of miles away from her "family".
Enter in Judah and his nephew Jake. Oh, and don't forget his two best friends Caspian and Ezra. Rowan's life gets flipped upside down at their sudden arrival in her life.
Will she keep her eyes on the prize or crack under the pressure of the three men who suddenly won't leave her and her life alone?
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.