The vanishing station

Ellickson, Anna2024

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Eighteen year old Filipino American Ruby Santos has been unmoored since her mother's death. She's always dreamed of going to art school, but instead, she and her father have had to move into the basement of their home and rent out the main floor while they work to pay back her mother's hospital bills. Then Ruby finds out her father has been leading a secret life as a delivery person for a magical underworld - he "jumps" train lines to help deliver packages for a powerful family. Recently he's fallen behind on deliveries (and deeper into a fog of alcohol), and if his debts aren't satisfied, they're going to take her mother's house. So Ruby volunteers to take over her dad's contract and start jumping train lines herself. Ruby soon realises that the trains are much more than doors to adventure - they're also doors to trafficking illicit goods and sites of fierce rivalries. As she becomes more entangled with the magical underworld and the mysterious, way-too-handsome boy who's helping her to learn magic, she realizes too late that she may be in over her head...