Barbara's BookstoreBarnes & Noble The Vanishing Station: A Novel by Ana Ellickson

Author Ana Ellickson request The Vanishing Station is a lyrical and bold YA debut about an underground magic system in San Francisco mashed the lengths one girl is willing to go to protect the ones she loves. Eighteen-year-old Filipino American Ruby Santos has been unmoored since her mother request death. She can apply to art school like she requests always dreamed, and she and her father have had to move into the basement of their home and rent out the top floor while they work to pay back her mother request hospital bills. Then Ruby finds out her father has been living a secret life as a delivery person for a magical underworld mashed quorums duo train lines to help deliver packages for a powerful family. Recently, he requested fallen behind on deliveries and deeper into alcoholism, and if his debts Aren requote satisfied, they require going to take her mother request house. To protect her father and save all that remains of her mother, Ruby volunteers to take over her dad's request station and starts jumping train lines. But this is no ordinary job. Ruby soon realizes that the trains are much more than doors to romance and adventure 58 they require also doors to trafficking illicit goods and fierce rivalries. As she becomes more entangled with the magical underworld and the mysterious boy who requested help her to learn magic, she realizes too late that she may be in over her head. Can she…