Charlie Avink

When a hiker gets lost in the desert, a gang of feral children propelled by haunting legacies traps him in a sadistic battle for survival with a frightening endgame.

Six months after his harrowing escape from a mysterious Russian island, Jake Fernsby is still drowning in PTSD. When a distress signal suddenly comes up from a missing fighter pilot, Jake and a crack team of soldiers are selected to save the pilot. Unbeknownst to Jake and his squad, they're being sent straight into the Beast's home turf.

Set against the backdrop of sandlot baseball in the 1960s, a boy faces a group of neighborhood bullies and wins the heart of the girl of his dreams.