Every year, the American government takes in a specific set of kids for testing, all around the world. These kids happen to have a unique ghost or two haunting them, attached to them - these are called their spirits, and the kids, their hosts.
The government take these kids and try to extract the ghosts from them, to learn more about these fascinating phenomenons and how they happen all around the world. After all, humans want to know what happens when you die. It is a burning curiosity that has suffered generation after generation.
Madison, when she was just eleven years old, was taken into testing as she was found out to have a spirit by her side. It's there that she learned that the "safe testing" isn't all it's talked up to be, and instead is a prison full of multitudes of torture chambers for young kids. Now, her job is to protect her spirit and her own life.
We join Madison when she is sixteen, and a new batch of kids join her. Austyn, Jade, Zaylee, and Aspen join Madison in the attempts to escape this prison. Can they do it? Can they keep their spirits safe?
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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.