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Ghost Train Carnival
Paperback
Series: Ghost Train Carnival Trilogy, Book 1
Publisher: Lawrence F. Peterson. Ph.D.
Published: Feb 21 2026
Pages: 254
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.58 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
GHOST TRAIN CARNIVAL Volume One
Peterson has done it again. Writing a gripping supernatural Western where one man's conscience becomes Hell's greatest threat.
Sam Quick thought he left his gunfighting days behind. Five years of running from the ghosts of Redemption. Five years trying to atone for twenty-three deaths. But when a mysterious client hires him to investigate unusual disappearances on the Midnight Express, Sam boards a train refusing to follow normal tracks. It leads straight to Eclipse Junction, a supernatural carnival where souls are currency and desperation is the price of admission.
In this twilight realm between damnation and salvation, Sam discovers a system more terrifying than any outlaw gang: Hell operates on contracts, consent, and customer service. The carnival doesn't force anyone to sign. It just makes sure the alternatives are worse. Vulnerable children are transformed into living advertisements. Memories are sold by the vial. The foreclosed work forever in the back lots, grinding out eternity one task at a time.
When young Mercy Kern's life hangs in the balance, Sam faces an impossible choice: trade his soul to save her, or watch Hell's machinery claim another innocent. But Sam Quick didn't survive as a gunfighter by playing by other people's rules. In a realm where violence is just another form of payment, and every transaction has hidden costs, he'll have to outsmart the Devil himself or become exactly what Hell expects him to be.
A masterful blend of Western grit and supernatural horror, GHOST TRAIN CARNIVAL explores the price of redemption when the only currency accepted is pieces of your soul.
Some debts can't be paid with bullets. Some fights can't be won with a gun. And some victories cost more than defeat ever could.
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