Just after midnight, Ember wakes to a sound she has never heard before-metal breathing in the dark. Down at the station, the platform lights glow at an hour they never should. Pip has counted seventeen unusual things since midnight. Fletcher has seen smoke on the horizon. And Brunel stands to attention as an impossible engine rounds the northern curve. The Night Mail has returned. Its passing leaves behind a trail of questions... and a small girl named Wren, who heard the train before anyone else. As Ember follows the clues, she uncovers a story carried along the rails for decades-one that is finally coming home. But something else has woken with the Night Mail. Something that has been waiting. A haunting, heartfelt mystery about wonder, belonging, and the strange magic that arrives when the world is quiet.
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