They were born on the same night. They have never met. Yet every night, they find each other at the same impossible station.
Ramses Reed lives in Dallas. Akoya Sato lives thousands of miles away in Seattle. In the waking world, they are strangers-but when they fall asleep, both awaken at Platform Three, a forgotten railway station hidden beneath Kyoto where every clock is frozen at 11:59.
Night after night, Ramses and Akoya grow up together in a dream world filled with ancient trains, buried tunnels, mysterious conductors, and memories of events that have not happened yet. Each morning, the station disappears from their minds, leaving only fragments: an unfamiliar language, the scent of cherry blossoms, and the aching feeling that someone important is missing.
But Platform Three is more than a dream.
An abandoned railway lies beneath modern Kyoto. A devastating train accident occurred on the night they were born. And something inside the station has been waiting for them to return.
As the boundary between dreaming and waking begins to break, Ramses and Akoya must uncover the truth about the railway, the promise connecting them, and the force determined to decide their future.
Some connections cannot be explained. Some promises survive memory. And some trains do not carry passengers-they carry them home.
Shinjuku at Midnight: The Promise Before Memory is Book One of a sweeping fantasy-romance series about enduring love, forgotten history, free will, and two souls searching for each other across dreams, distance, and time.