The trains are not what they seem
Eighteen-year-old Filipino American Ruby Santos has been unmoored since her motherâs death. Sheâs 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 motherâs hospital bills.
Then Ruby finds out her father has been living a secret life as a delivery person for a magical underworldâhe âjumpsâ train lines to help deliver packages for a powerful family. Recently, heâs fallen behind on deliveries (and deeper into a fog of alcohol), and if his debts arenât satisfied, theyâre going to take her motherâs house. So Ruby volunteers to take over her dadâs contract and start jumping train lines herself.
But this is no ordinary job. Ruby soon realizes that the trains are much more than doors to romance and adventure: Theyâre also doors to trafficking illicit goods and the sites of fierce rivalries. As she becomes more entangled with the magical underworld and the mysterious, way-too-handsome boy whoâs helping her to learn magic, she realizes too late that she may be in over her head âŚ
âPrepare yourself for nuanced characterization, aching romance, and a slick underground world that youâve never seen before ⌠just donât get too close to the tracks.ââEmily J. Taylor, New York Times bestselling author of Hotel Magnifique