Souls for Sale II

J came home for a funeral. He didn’t expect to lose his mother too.Bethany has stood since the beginning - the oldest Black neighborhood in New York, held together by memory, by prayer, by people who refused to leave. But something patient has been moving underneath it for years, buying up ground the way it buys silence: quietly, legally, one signature at a time. Nobody agrees it’s happening until it’s already gone.When J returns to bury a man who was practically his brother, he finds his mother collapsed on her kitchen floor. By the time the hospital finishes explaining what happened, she’s not just dead. She’s missing - transferred, they say, though nobody can say where, or by whom.Ashley has never left Bethany. She’s raising her sisters, burying her secrets, and keeping a promise she never should have made. When the answers J is chasing lead them both back to a dead man’s ledger, a doctor no one admits treating his mother, and a man who hasn’t aged in forty years, she’s the only one who believes him before it’s too late.Because Bethany doesn’t lose people by accident. It sells them - the land, the houses, the people who won’t let go - to something old enough to be patient, and powerful enough to never have to hurry.In Bethany, you don’t run. You stand. You fight.Or you lose everything.Souls for Sale II is Book Two in Will Jones’s urban psychological thriller series - a story about grief, gentrification, and the price of staying home, for readers who want their horror rooted in something real.The story continues in Souls for Sale III.