At 11:47 p.m., Mara Vale receives a message from a phone number that has been dead for three years:DON’T GET ON THE LAST TRAIN.The number belongs to her brother Daniel, who disappeared without a trace. Minutes later, more messages arrive. A knock at her door. The lights go out.Mara runs into the rain and reaches Bellhaven Central Station just before midnight. A black train with no destination waits on Platform Nine. She steps inside.What follows is a night of empty carriages, missing people, erased memories, and a secret that has been swallowing lives in Bellhaven for twenty years. Somewhere beneath the city is Room 9… and Room 10.Some messages come from the dead.Some secrets stay buried.Others come back to kill.