Siara Garrett has always dreamed of leaving her superstition-obsessed hometown of Sorrel Wood, but there’s one major problem: she can’t handle carriage rides due to suffering from terrible motion sickness!

That might not be so bad if she could take a train instead, but that’s practically out of the question, because the only station she can get to is run by The Dreaded Stationmaster: a mysterious figure rumoured to bring misfortune to anyone who encounters him.

However, now that she’s nearing her 20th birthday, Siara must embark on a long journey across the country in order to tie the knot on an arranged marriage. This predetermined fate of fiancés and carriage rides riddled with motion sickness causes her to come up with a plan...

One that involves buying a train ticket from the fearsome Stationmaster! Surely nothing can get in her way, not even the man who's only rumoured to cast curses... right?