02016cam a2200385 i 4500 1750388022 TxGeo 20241114120000.0 230105s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780316581400 trade pbk. 0316581402 trade pbk. (OCoLC)1429576045 TxGeo rda Harper, Jordan, author. The last king of California / Jordan Harper ; foreword by S.A. Cosby. First North American edition. ©2024. New York, NY : Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company, 2024. x, 290 pages ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Originally published in the United Kingdom by Simon & Schuster in 2022. "This stirring and brutal bildungsroman tells the story of young Luke Crosswhite, who after years apart from his criminal family returns to their flock deep in the California desert. Luke's father is serving time for a brutal murder that Luke himself witnessed; now, his uncle vies for power and rival biker gangs encroach on the family's various criminal enterprises. A sensitive boy grown hard man, Luke navigates the vicious pressures of "home," and the loyalties to his old friend, Cassie, who has hatched a scheme with her boyfriend Pretty Baby to escape the control of the gang, the Combine. Hanging over these desperate, lonesome parties is the gang's motto, tattooed indelibly across the heart: Blood is Love."-- Provided by publisher. 20241205. Murder Fiction. Families Fiction. Friendship Fiction. Motorcycle gangs Fiction. Los Angeles (Calif) Fiction. Thrillers. Coming of age fiction. Cosby, S. A, author of foreword. QS5