The Vanishing Station: A Novel

Author Ana Ellicksons The Vanishing Station is a lyrical and bold YA debut about an underground magic system in San Franciscoand the lengths one girl is willing to go to protect the ones she loves.

Eighteen-year-old Filipino American Ruby Santos has been unmoored since her mothers death. She cant apply to art school like shes always dreamed, and she and her father have had to move into the basement of their home and rent out the top floor while they work to pay back her mothers hospital bills.

Then Ruby finds out her father has been living a secret life as a delivery person for a magical underworldhe jumps train lines to help deliver packages for a powerful family. Recently, hes fallen behind on deliveries (and deeper into alcoholism), and if his debts arent satisfied, theyre going to take her mothers house. In an effort to protect her father and save all that remains of her mother, Ruby volunteers to take over her dads station and start jumping train lines.

But this is no ordinary job. Ruby soon realizes that the trains are much more than doors to romance and adventure: theyre also doors to trafficking illicit goods and fierce rivalries. As she becomes more entangled with the magical underworld and the mysterious boy whos helped her to learn magic, she realizes too late that she may be in over her head. Can she free her father and save her mothers house? Or has she only managed to get herself pulled into the dangerous web her father was trapped in? See more