Demons accompany every human being. Whether it's that shadow in the corner of your eye that always vanishes or the weight of depression, they are there. However, none claim as powerful as the nine disciples of hell known as Depression, Illness, Greif, Abuse, Rape, Anger, Love, Loniness and Anxiety. After all positions were astablished, the power was too much for the demon realm and they were forever separated. They went undercover, investigating different realms, but one kept his name out there. Furor, the disciple of Anxiety. He kept to taking souls not knowing that most of the others had vanished due to the Nightmare Girl. She had turned more than half the Disciples into power hungry demons because of the emptiness of her soul. It was more divine than their ruler. Through out Nightmare Girl's life, all of them had tainted her soul, apart from Anxiety. Slowly they became hungry for it and desired it more than any other, destroying themselves in the procsess. After 8,000 years of struggling to survive, one would get bored, as Furor did. This was when Nightmare girl was at her most powerful. He seeked her soul. Being one of the only ones left, he was determined to claim it. On his journey to get his paws on her soul, he comes across details he was not saposed to discover, the reason why he was the last left, why the others were destroyed, and why there is only 9.
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.