In a world where family is everything and betrayal can cost your life, love might just be the deadliest obsession of all.
Selene Vivienne Blackwell has always lived a double life. By day, she's a brilliant history major with dreams of owning her own museum. But by night, she's the princess of one of the most feared mafia families in the city, born to inherit her father's deadly empire. She's beautiful, deadly, and smarter than anyone gives her credit for-and she knows it.
Dominic Moretti, heir to the rival Moretti mafia empire, is no stranger to the criminal world either. His life has been paved with blood, loyalty, and danger, but beneath his hardened exterior lies a man searching for a way out. When he meets Selene in college, he's drawn to her intellect, her fire, and the darkness she tries to hide.
Neither knows the truth about the other's family-or the deadly feud that's torn their worlds apart for generations. But as their connection deepens, long-buried secrets begin to surface, threatening to destroy everything they hold dear. With both their families pushing them toward war, Selene and Dominic are forced to choose between love and loyalty, knowing that one wrong move could cost them everything-including their lives.
In a world ruled by crime, their love may be the most dangerous betrayal of all.
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.