Isolation can drive a human mad. We can turn into feral monsters just trying to keep ourselves alive. Even if you're lucky to have someone else with you in this freezing hell you all others only know to call home, it's dangerous to even keep anybody close, even your own flesh and blood. You are even a risk to yourself.
For years, these people survived. With barely anything to eat or drink, freezing temperatures, and danger being anywhere, from hidden in the ground, scouting from the heavens above, to even hiding inside their frozen corpses. The cruel nature of this world will never stop quickly killing off many of the unlucky. These people have become suited to the lifestyle they are trapped with. With no memory of their past, they populate across the icy planet as just another one of the endless amounts of lost souls. They've lost their humanity, only knowing the feelings to hate, to hurt, to thirst for battle and blood.
Kaleb only had his sister in this case. The two, despite having intense hatred for each other, their rivalry never leading to a bloody battle like in most cases. With a relationship filled with working together, and threatening each other, they somehow made it work. But soon, he would be by himself, just from one decision to hunt.
But the isolation wouldn't last for long. Who would expect for the planet to finally be discovered after all this time?
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.