The Ghost Train Conductor's Daughter
A Paranormal Coming-of-Age

About this book:

Maeve Trainor doesn't do normal. By midnight, she's punching tickets for the dead aboard her father's phantom locomotive, guiding lost souls through the mist-shrouded ravines of the Pacific Northwest on a steam engine that runs on moonlight and memory. By morning, she's a sleep-deprived sophomore navigating the far more treacherous terrain of Oakhaven High—where the hallways hum with abandoned rail lines only she can see, and the new boy in her World History class casts a shadow shaped like a scythe.

Julian Vane isn't just a transfer student in a tailored wool coat; he's the heir to the Iron Scythe, a corporate psychopomp syndicate that harvests souls for profit instead of guiding them home. His father has declared the Phantom Line obsolete. By winter solstice, he intends to strip Maeve's family legacy for scrap. But the Trainors have been hauling the departed through forest fires and floodwaters for three generations, and Maeve didn't inherit her father's brass lantern just to watch it extinguished.

Caught between algebra exams and apparition boardings, first crushes and funeral pyres, Maeve must master the conductor's craft before the rival firm derails everything she loves. *The Ghost Train Conductor's Daughter* is a soot-stained, heart-pounding debut where coming of age means learning which tracks are worth defending—and realizing the most dangerous crossing isn't between life and death, but between the person you're expected to be and the conductor you were born to become.