Richard Valentine has spent the last three years at the Smalltown Gazette as a reporter, who can barely get by on the scraps his editor allows him to take, when the story of a lifetime finds him. What he thought was just a suicide by train takes a turn to the strange when his own voicemail contains the death note of the victim. But to make it even more strange, the victim reads the last few lines of a poem Valentine wrote, called Last Train.
It gets called a coincidence until the town librarian takes her own life the same way, and leaves a nearly identical voicemail on Valentine's desk phone, and she won't be the last one.
On the search for answers about why his poem was spoken by the victims, he uncovers more than he bargained truths about the railway company, and 200 year old secrets of his town that everyone would have rather stayed buried.
As the body count raises and things get infinitely more complicated Valentine is faced with the choice to either stay and investigate further, or get his family out of town before its too late...