The Town That Was Erased: Book Two of The School Beneath America

A hidden town. A forbidden list. A father’s name printed in black.Eli Cross thought the school beneath America was the answer to his father’s disappearance. Then his father’s name appears in a buried registry tied to Ashford, Georgia, a town no map admits ever existed.The school says Ashford was sealed for safety. The records say Robert Cross helped erase it. But the deeper Eli goes, the less the official story holds. Old roads shift. County records rewrite themselves. A bridge ends in trees. A porch light burns for someone who never came home. And beneath the town, children remain trapped in a route that never arrived.With Mara Calder, a girl whose missing brother followed the same hidden road, Eli must decide who to trust: the school that protects America by burying dangerous places, the Surveyor who wants the erased town opened, or the father who may still be holding the road under the river.Some towns are abandoned.Some towns are hidden.Ashford was erased.And it remembers. Read more