A Soul on the Midnight Train

di ouzaouit oussama (Autore)

ouzaouit oussama, 2025

For Liam Keane, a 35-year-old ex-journalist, life has been reduced to a monotonous cycle of guilt and regret. After a high-profile story he wrote destroyed an innocent man's life, Liam abandoned his career and now rides the 11:58 PM train home each night, a hollowed-out man who believes only in what he can prove. His fortress of logic is about to be demolished. It begins as a flicker in the rain-streaked glass—a phantom he dismisses as fatigue. But the phantom solidifies into Elara, the translucent, terrified soul of a young woman who is just as real as the train itself. She reveals that her body lies in a coma, and this "Midnight Train" is a spectral conduit pulling her soul toward a final, irreversible death at dawn. Liam is the only living person who can see or hear her. Reluctantly at first, then with the resurrected instincts of the reporter he once was, Liam agrees to help. He must piece together Elara's fractured memories—a glint of chrome from a classic car in a storm, a locket engraved with a mysterious name, "Alastair"—to solve the puzzle of her attack before time runs out. Their investigation is complicated by the train's sinister guardian: the Conductor, a faceless entity whose purpose is to ensure every soul completes its final journey. As they dodge the Conductor and frantically search for clues, a deep, unexpected bond forms between the cynical man and the lost soul. Liam finds a purpose he thought long dead, while Elara finds an anchor in a world dissolving around her. Their search leads them to a dark conspiracy involving a powerful real estate magnate, Marcus Croft, connecting Elara's attack to the suspicious death of Croft's own son years earlier. With dawn approaching, Liam must risk everything in a final, desperate confrontation to sever Elara from the train's grim system. But the ultimate revelation, waiting on a lonely platform at dawn, is more shocking than any conspiracy. Liam discovers that the journey was never truly about saving Elara, but about confronting a devastating truth about his own existence, forcing him to understand the true price of redemption. A Soul on the Midnight Train is a haunting, emotionally charged psychological thriller that explores the nature of guilt, sacrifice, and the final destination that awaits us all.

• Autore: ouzaouit oussama
• Anno edizione: 2025
• Editore: ouzaouit oussama
• Formato: EPUB2 con DRMFREE
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9798231024407

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