BENEATH THE END ZONE
Book Two of the Unclaimed Series
by R. Edwin
Friday night lights are supposed to bring a town together.
Stan, Jorge, Julie, and Anita, they bring something else.
Months after surviving the nightmare that began in an abandoned funeral home, the four friends are trying to move on with their lives. The terrifying events they endured seem impossible to explain, and even harder to forget. They tell themselves the darkness is behind them.
They are wrong.
During a packed high school football game, Jorge disappears in front of hundreds of people. One moment, he is racing toward the end zone. Next, he is simply gone.
No one can explain it.
No one except Stan.
As strange tremors ripple beneath the field, Stan begins to realize something is alive under the stadium. Something ancient. Something patient. Something that has been waiting.
Beneath the end zone lies a hidden world filled with the lost and forgotten. Children who vanished decades ago. Souls trapped between life and death. Faces pressed against the walls of earth. Voices calling from the darkness. And at the center of it all sits a mysterious black ledger that records names with terrifying purpose.
Every name written inside belongs to someone marked for collection.
Every page brings another victim closer to being claimed.
As Stan searches for Jorge, he uncovers secrets buried deeper than the tunnels beneath the field. The strange forces that pursued him during the events of Unclaimed have not forgotten him. The shadowy Demon still watches from the darkness. Mr. Vale, the unsettling mortician with motives of his own, returns with warnings that make little sense. Rose, the Demon's rebellious daughter, knows more than she is willing to reveal. And somewhere below the stadium, a powerful entity known as the Ledger is preparing to escape.
What begins as a rescue mission soon becomes a fight for far more than one friend's life.
As the walls between worlds weaken, Stan discovers that he and Anita may not be who they believe they are. The rules that govern life, death, and the souls caught between them are beginning to break. Ancient forces are taking notice. Hidden powers are awakening. And a much older darkness has finally turned its attention toward them.
With time running out, the friends must descend into the nightmare beneath the field and confront horrors that should never have existed. But every answer they uncover raises a more frightening question.
Why were they spared?
And what if they were never meant to be?
Blending supernatural horror, mystery, suspense, and unforgettable twists, Beneath the End Zone is a fast-paced young adult thriller that explores friendship, courage, identity, and the terrifying cost of being chosen by forces beyond human understanding.
Perfect for readers who enjoy eerie small-town mysteries, relentless supernatural suspense, and stories where the danger grows with every page, Beneath the End Zone continues the chilling journey that began in Unclaimed and pushes the series into even darker territory.
Some secrets refuse to stay buried.
And beneath the end zone, something is still moving.