The Author
Simran Mehta
Novelist. Writes quiet, speculative literary fiction about memory, loss, and the people we stop seeing.
The Train Between Worlds is Simran Mehta's first series: three standalone novels that share a world, a currency and a train, but not a plot. Every door aboard costs the same thing to open — one true memory of the person you would go back for — and each book follows a different passenger deciding what that price is worth.
The books
- The Train Between Worlds — you wake on a train with no name, no past, and a ticket that reads Destination: Unknown.
- The Memory Fare — six years after her daughter vanished, Cora Marsh finds her handwriting on a luggage tag.
- The Forty-Year Passenger — for fifteen years, Abel Quist walked past a woman carrying an empty bucket. He never once looked at her face.
All three are on Kindle and free to borrow with Kindle Unlimited. They can be read in any order; none spoils the others.
The reading guides
The reading guides on this site are Simran's, too. They are drafted with the help of AI writing tools, then selected, organised and edited here: which books make each list, how the list is sorted and what it says about each title are editorial decisions made for this site. Every recommended book is a real, published title by another author, and the series is suggested alongside them, never in place of them. Nothing on the site is sponsored and no link earns a commission. How the guides are made says more.
Elsewhere
Simran Mehta's books are listed on the Amazon author page. There are several unrelated authors who share the name; the books on this site are the ones linked above.
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