Recruit is an imp, summoned with the strange power known as Imbuing. For centuries, he hopped from body to body, serving his masters, passed down along bloodlines like a family heirloom. Until, finally, he was simply forgotten...
Trapped in a wine bottle for two centuries, Recruit was on the brink of insanity. But a rich, lazy apprentice, forced to work as part of his Imbuing education, accidentally knocks Recruit's prison over, and suddenly, he was free.
Masterless and without purpose, Recruit must master the modern world, before someone decides to master him, one again.
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.