[CONTAINS SERIOUS TOPICS. ALSO LOTS OF TW/CW. PLEASE DON'T READ IF YOU ARE NOT COMFORTABLE WITH CERTAIN THINGS. THIS IS YOUR ONLY WARNING]
In a lost world, death, crime, and famine are all but the least of your worries. Being forgotten is a fate worse than death, and those who are crumble away, lost to time.
Dominic, a man wandering aimlessly between the towering buildings, just like so many before him. He searches for purpose; For a sense of reality. Desperately clawing at his own life dangling before his eyes, he's vying for an escape, for anything.
Feb, young and full of spirit. He has yet to see all that awaits him in the wide world, but he doesn't need a rude awakening. He already knows that life is hell, and people remind him every day. Waking up in the morning is a challenge, but he is determined to make it, one way or another.
Injustice runs rampant through the streets; Petty theft, gang violence, and drug trafficking all being only but a few examples of daily life for the average person. It's become a necessity to know where the bad, travelable areas are, and those areas where you will not come back without a knife sticking in your gut or a bullet between your eyes.
Life is a struggle. It's a war on yourself and those around you. A battle you fight till you draw your final breath. Maybe hell would be better, but the best we can all do is struggle. So struggle and fight, until your muscles give out and your bones shatter. Struggle.
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.