The Midnight Platform

Nora Vance stopped the train. The day, it seems, was never the point. Three weeks after she and Elliot Hayes broke a loop that had killed two hundred people, a pale envelope lands on Nora's doormat. You stopped the train. You have not stopped the day. Platform 4. 23:58. Friday. Bring him. There is no Platform 4 at Carrow Junction at that hour. There is, though, a long wet platform that exists only in the last two minutes of a Friday, an Arrears Board with a clock that runs out on the first of May, and a gentle old man in a grey coat who explains the rule: the Line keeps books. Every disaster that was ever stopped on the Hartley line was not erased. It was held. And held days come due. This time there is no reset. One chance each Friday. Real injuries. Real deaths. The first entry on the Board is a hospital on a stormy night, with six people on ventilators and a fault that nobody believes in. The second is an allotment shed. The third has no name on it yet. Meanwhile a courteous civil servant at the Department for Transport is asking, ever so politely, what woke Nora at fourteen minutes past two. He has a ticket of his own. He wants the one book that can settle the account burned. And he knows exactly who Elliot loves. If you like time-loop mysteries with a beating heart, slow-burn romance between two people who have already seen each other die, and endings that make you reach for the next book, ride the Night Mail with Nora and Elliot. The Midnight Platform is Book Two of The Hartley Loop. Read Book One, The Last Train to Hartley, first. This book ends on a cliffhanger.