The Iron Junction's Midnight Train
A Low Fantasy Railway Mystery

About this book:

When the 3:13 screams through Oakhaven Junction on a frozen Thursday night, Stationmaster Arthur Ward faces an impossible entry in his ledger: a train that crashed thirty years ago, running to a timetable that doesn't exist. The rails are hot. The points are thrown. And the passengers in the wooden coaches have been waiting for a station that was buried in 1888.

Arthur lives by the rulebook—coal tonnage, boiler pressure, the absolute truth of printed schedules. But his line-walker, Bram Fletcher, carries salt in his pockets and a green lantern that burns with something other than oil. He knows the iron remembers every hand that laid it, every life it took. Together, they must walk the overgrown spur line before dawn, following a trail of fresh soot on rusted chairs and hobnailed footprints in the ballast, to uncover what the Great Western Railway buried beneath the collapsed tunnel.

*The Iron Junction's Midnight Train* is a low-fantasy mystery steeped in the soot and steam of Victorian railways, where the supernatural rides the permanent way and the timetable is written in blood. For readers who love atmospheric historical fantasy, uneasy partnerships, and ghosts that leave coal dust on your fingers.