Mary is excited to go to New York with her friends, James and Kenya. Mary calls James to tell him she is going, and Kenya is having a dance session in her room when she gets a call from Mary. Mary reveals that she beat up two 12 year olds and an old lady, and Kenya groans on the phone and wonders why she is friends with the weird ones.
Mary and Kenya are going to visit her in New York for 2 weeks. Kenya calls her best friend jamie and tells her the news. She then remembers that she forgot to ask Mary how long they were going to stay. Mary tells James and Jamie that they will stay there for 2 weeks and they are going to start packing. Kenya calls the company that usually flies cars from other states to the destination and leaves it outside the house.
They all go to bed happy and excited about the next day. This is the meeting before the storm. Mary woke up excited for the day Kenya, James, and Jamie were going to New York. She put on her favorite jeans and black nirvana shirt, and boarded the plane with Jamie, Kenya, and James. Jamie suggested that she could hold her bag, but Kenya argued that she should have her own seat.
James and Jamie agreed, but Kenya insisted that she would rather sit on the floor. Kenya, James, and Jamie all get off the plane and see Mary in lane 5. They all drop their luggage and run to hug her, and she drops her purse. After a bit, they all get out of the bear hug and ask how each other is doing. Mary suggests they go to the world trade center to meet Danni aka you on the 9th, and everyone agrees.
They then hurry up and drive home to Mary's place. Jamie is worried about going to Mary's house on the 2nd week of September, as it is Danni's birthday, so will you join there adventure and help the team?
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.