Simran Mehta
Simran Mehta writes quiet speculative fiction with a human heart: an endless train that charges its passengers in memories, an antique shop that only opens at night, a book that already knows how tomorrow goes, and a village banyan that seems to speak. The books sit between literary fiction and the surreal, for readers who like stories that haunt you in a good way and leave you questioning what's real.
Start with the complete Train Between Worlds trilogy, pick a single novel by mood below, or browse the reading lists that put each book beside the titles it's most like.
The Train Between Worlds — a surreal trilogy, complete
Endless train fiction about memory as currency: every door aboard costs something, and every passenger is searching for someone. All three books are out. Read them in order.
Book 1The Train Between WorldsYou wake on a train with no name, no past, and a ticket that reads: Destination Unknown.
Book 2The Memory FareSix years after her daughter vanished, Cora finds her handwriting on a luggage tag — from a train that has never existed.
Book 3The Forty-Year PassengerEvery door aboard costs the same thing to open: one true memory of the person you'd go back for.
Find your next read by mood
Books set on an endless train
Wake on a train with no name, no past and a ticket marked Destination Unknown.
Fiction about paying with memories
A railway where every fare, and every door, is paid for in memory.
A book that already knows tomorrow
Each morning a chapter describes the day he hasn't lived yet. Each night he forgets it.
An antique shop that only opens at night
A ghost trapped in a mirror since 1923, and a shop that feeds on love.
Fiction told entirely through letters
A book with no author, found in a nameless bookstore, addressed only to You.
Romance between life and death
Two strangers in a mist-covered town with no names, no pasts and a pull toward each other.
A mother searching for a missing daughter
Six years on, her daughter's handwriting turns up on a luggage tag from a train that never existed.
Survivor guilt and a twenty-year secret
Two survivors, one blood pact, and witnesses who keep dying.
A banyan tree that speaks
Gentle South Asian magical realism about a village that learns to heal.
Marriage, duty and who you become
Quiet Indian literary fiction about the cost of living for other people's expectations.
Soft poetry for healing
Poems about breaking in places nobody could see, and staying soft anyway.
All books by Simran Mehta
An antique shop that only opens at night. A seamstress trapped in a mirror since 1923. A love that the shop intends to feed on.
- paranormal romance
- ghost love interest
- forbidden love
$3.99
$26.99
Two survivors. One blood pact. Twenty years of silence — and the witnesses are dying.
- dark thriller
- survivor guilt
- unreliable narrator
$18.99
A book appears on his nightstand each morning, already describing the day he hasn't lived yet.
- mind-bending
- speculative fiction
- memory loss
$0.99
$20.00
A man who believed love, career, and family could coexist in perfect harmony — and the year that proved otherwise.
- contemporary fiction
- marriage
- self-discovery
$2.99
Two strangers wake in a mist-covered town with no names, no pasts, and an inexplicable pull toward each other.
- love beyond death
- amnesia
- liminal spaces
$3.99
$26.99
A quiet unfolding: a woman finding her way back to herself after breaking in places nobody could see.
- healing
- poetry
- motherhood
$2.99
$20.00
An abandoned child hears the village banyan speaking — and the whole village begins to change.
- magical realism
- folklore
- contemplative
$2.99
$20.00
You wake on a train with no name, no past, and a ticket that reads: Destination Unknown.
- surreal
- liminal spaces
- memory
$3.99
A book with no author, no barcode, no publisher — containing only letters addressed to You.
- epistolary
- mystery
- slow-burn romance
$5.99
Six years after her daughter vanished, Cora finds her handwriting on a luggage tag — from a train that has never existed.
- missing person
- grief
- liminal spaces
Every door aboard costs the same thing to open: one true memory of the person you'd go back for.
- memory as currency
- siblings
- slow reveal
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Reader questions
What genre does Simran Mehta write?
Literary and speculative fiction: surreal and liminal novels (The Train Between Worlds trilogy, TURN), paranormal and afterlife romance (Love Beyond The Glass, When Darkness Blooms), an epistolary mystery (Ink Between Us), a dark thriller (The Boy Who Survived With Me), South Asian magical realism (Whispers Beneath The Banyan), contemporary Indian fiction (A Man's Predicament) and a collection of healing poetry (And Still, She Stayed Soft).
Which Simran Mehta book should I read first?
For a standalone, try TURN or Love Beyond The Glass. For a series, start The Train Between Worlds from Book One. For poetry, And Still, She Stayed Soft.
What order should I read The Train Between Worlds in?
Read them in publication order: The Train Between Worlds (Book 1), The Memory Fare (Book 2), then The Forty-Year Passenger (Book 3). The trilogy is complete.
What is liminal fiction?
Liminal fiction is set in in-between places: corridors, waiting rooms, trains, fog-bound towns, the space between life and death. The setting is often uncanny and almost alive, and characters are usually between identities as well as places. The Train Between Worlds and When Darkness Blooms are both liminal novels; our liminal space reading list has more.
Where can I buy these books?
Each title links to Amazon: Kindle ebook, plus paperback where available. You can also visit the full author store for every edition in one place.
How do I reach the author?
For events, rights, or bulk orders, message through the Amazon author page with the book title in your note.