"There's a ghost train that runs along here at night. They say it carries the souls of those bound for hell." Jane Adams is only twenty-three, but she's already a widow. A daughter of the railway, after her husband's death she takes a job as a level crossing gatekeeper in the little town of Tungold, out at the end of the line. But all is not right in Tungold. The townspeople are frosty and unwelcoming, and Jane's only ally is the new young police constable, Alec Ward, an outsider just like her. When a railway official is murdered, Jane and Alec become determined to get to the bottom of the town's secrets. Who killed Brian Mathieson? And what is behind the mysterious ghost train? But Jane is also hiding a secret of her own - one that will put her life and everything she cares about on the line.