Last train west
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Start reading →The West is expanding beneath a sky crowded with omens. Trains carry settlers, soldiers, fortune-seekers—and creatures forced into the margins of human civilization. Harpies deliver the mail, centaurs are bought and sold as living transportation, and monster communities survive through uneasy treaties, theft, or open resistance. Magic exists too, though those who wield it are feared, hunted, and rarely free of its price. Evelyn boards a westbound train with a pistol she barely trusts and a secret she does not understand. Her journey is interrupted when a pale, painted rider begins closing in—and a band of monstrous outlaws attacks the train in pursuit of the same fugitive witch. Among the chaos are a dangerous naga with a cause, and a undead lawman preserved as a vampire who still believes morality is a choice. As the rails carry Evelyn toward a town built by displaced monsters, desire, suspicion, and old violence draw her between two very different men. To survive the journey, she must decide what kind of woman—and what kind of witch—she is willing to become.
Characters
Evelyn
Protagonist; witch on the run
Anxious but outspoken, proper by the standards of her time, compassionate, inexperienced, and more stubborn than she realizes.
Evelyn comes from a human family whose witchcraft was purchased through a demonic bargain, though her late brother kept that history from her. Newly alone after his death, she is traveling west with an unreliable pistol, uncontrolled magic, and a supernatural pursuer who has marked her as the family’s final sacrifice.