The Dead Beneath

By Lewis Cheke

When your worst nightmares become reality...

With his life rapidly falling apart around him, failing hotelier Ben Walker was at an all-time low. A ruined relationship, friendships in tatters, and his business on the ropes-things surely couldn't get any worse. That's what Ben thought until one fateful late-night encounter with Her. What at first seemed like nothing more than a drunken hallucination soon began to grow into something much worse. Something entirely insidious.

From the dark, her terrifying glowing eyes, buckled neck, and ghastly twisted smile began to haunt his every waking hour, turning his already pitiful existence into hell on earth. Even as Ben met the girl of his dreams, giving him a glimmer of hope amidst the insanity, the perpetual nightmare overshadowed both him and his hotel. She was watching him. Toying with him. Torturing him. No matter what Ben did, he couldn't escape Her.

But ghosts aren't real, are they? And even if they were, that's all they were-just horrible visions and torment. Poltergeists can't actually kill, though... right?

The second book in The Afflicted Ones series, set in the twenty-first century, takes on a life of its own, distinct from the first instalment, A Predetermined Fate. How could a failing hotel, its downbeat owner, and a malicious spirit be connected to a ghostly war story from a hundred years earlier?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FLQ7BHFM
• ISBN13: 9798312085174
• Release Date: August 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 8.0"