The AAL Football Championship is days away—and quarterback Max Dupree is cracking under the weight of it. The pressure to win, the whispers from the sidelines, the sense that something bigger than just the game is at stake…it’s starting to cost him more than his focus.Across town, St. Augustine Tribune reporter Rita is chasing a lead no one else will touch—a string of suicides with a chilling connection to the AAL. The deeper she digs, the clearer it becomes: This isn’t coincidence. It’s a pattern. And each and every one of the deceased died smiling…As Max spirals and Rita closes in, the truth behind the city’s gambling underworld threatens to surface. And it could cost them both everything.The clock is ticking. The game is fixed. And someone is going to lose far more than the championship in issue #2 of Any Given Smile, based on the critically acclaimed film franchise.