Promise Beyond Midnight by Ashwin Patil

In the snowbound town of Ravenshire, 1997, twenty-year-old Fred Thorne returns to the abandoned station where his parents vanished two decades ago.
When a mysterious girl in a white coat appears and speaks of promises that never die, Fred is drawn toward a ghostly train that should no longer exist—the Midnight Express.

Each night the lantern in his hands burns brighter, its flame remembering more than he does. Each snowfall brings the sound of distant rails, and every flicker of light blurs the line between memory and reality. Guided by the hauntingly beautiful Anna Whitmore, Fred follows the echoes of a vow that once bound his family to the storm.

As Ravenshire freezes in time, the truth begins to surface: love and loss can bend even the laws of death, and some journeys only end when the promise is kept.

Lyrical, cinematic, and deeply emotional, Promise Beyond Midnight is a romantic horror thriller about memory, devotion, and the light that refuses to fade.