Speculative Science Fiction / Dystopian Cyber Thriller

Each story in this collection drops a teenage girl into a different kind of nightmare. A ghost train that remembers drowned towns, a mansion where silence is monetized, a city where your own bones can make you a target, a quiet college job that turns out to be code-breaking in disguise. The dangers range from the supernatural to the technological to the all-too-human, but they share a single pressure point. Systems that see young women as resources, not people.

Again and again, the girls push back. Sometimes they jump off the wrong train, sometimes they derail an algorithm, sometimes they out-think a billionaire or out-read an old spy, but in every story, survival depends less on luck than on noticing patterns, trusting their instincts, and choosing themselves. They may come home scraped, shaken, or changed, yet they always get home and they bring that hard-won knowledge with them, so the next time danger comes calling, they're not just passengers in someone else's plot.