The Junction 7 Anomaly

About this book:

At 2:14 a.m. on the Highfield Division, the CTC board shows a train occupying a track that hasn't existed in thirty years. The signal relay clicks over with the weight of a locomotive that was cut up for scrap before the dispatcher was born. And in the limestone cut, the weeds are flattening against a wind that isn't blowing—pushed down by something massive, invisible, and dead on time.

Arthur Vance has run this railroad for three decades. He knows every relay, every fault, every way iron can lie. But tonight the board is remembering schedules from 1944, the basement smells of coal smoke and river silt, and a steam whistle screams for a grade crossing paved over before Vietnam. When the ghost train hits the main line doing sixty, Arthur has forty thousand tons of real freight bearing down on a collision that physics says cannot happen—and his only lever is a red emergency hold that will cost him his pension.

*The Junction 7 Anomaly* is a supernatural thriller that runs on diesel, steam, and the cold logic of the block system. For readers who love the tactile authority of *The Taking of Pelham One Two Three* and the creeping dread of *The Turn of the Screw*, this is a novel where the timetable is holy, the interlocking is law, and the past has right-of-way.