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The Memory Fare: A Novel of a Mother, a Missing Daughter, and the Train That Charges in Memories
Paperback
Series: The Train Between Worlds, Book 2
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 31 2026
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.32
Height: 0.28 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Six years after her daughter vanished, Cora Marsh finds her handwriting on a luggage tag. The train it came from doesn't appear on any schedule. And the fare isn't paid in money.
Every morning for six years, Cora has signed the visitor book at a railway lost property office and searched the unclaimed bags for something of June's. It is the only thing she still knows how to do.
Then she finds a grey holdall with a mended strap, and a tag in her daughter's handwriting: J. MARSH - NOT LOST. Logged nineteen days ago. Off the 11:47 - a service that has never existed.
Cora boards it on purpose. Nobody has ever done that before.
The conductor explains the fare before she can change her mind. The train has more cars than anyone has counted, and June may be behind any one of them. Every door Cora opens costs her one true memory of her daughter - not a fact, not a date, but the kind you can walk around inside. She will not feel it go. She will never know which one she paid.
She has more than she thinks. And fewer than she needs.
Because somewhere ahead of her on this train, June Marsh has been paying too. Four thousand times over. And when Cora finally finds her, she will face the arithmetic her daughter spent six years trying to spare her - that to bring June home, she must spend the last thing she has left of her.
For readers of The Midnight Library, Before the Coffee Gets Cold, and Piranesi - a quietly devastating novel about what we will give up for the people we love, and whether love survives the losing of it.
A standalone novel. No need to have read Book One.
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