A Fantasy
By Michael Salmieri
The city is asleep. The Night Mail isn’t.
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Jax Castellano is used to being forgotten. By her teachers. By her brothers and sisters. Even at the laundromat.
Then a boy steps through a door no one else can see. And offers her a job.
The Night Mail delivers impossible things: a thunderstorm in a jar, a snowball from last winter, one extra second. Its couriers work between midnight and sunrise, slipping through the places nobody is looking.
For the first time, Jax belongs somewhere. But with every hour, her shadow grows thinner. And someone is stealing the shadows of children across the city.
With dawn closing in, Jax must finish a route no rookie should have been given, and face a boy who will do anything to be seen again.
Thirteen stops. One night. Don’t lose your shadow.
Michael Salmieri is a Pennsylvania-based author of character-driven thrillers that blend suspense, intrigue, and moral complexity. His novels range across crime, politics, espionage, technology, and institutional power, following people caught between duty, survival, and the consequences of the choices they make.
As a public adjuster and business consultant, he has spent his professional life navigating conflict, weighing competing accounts, and looking beyond the accepted version of events. That experience informs his fiction through layered plots, credible pressure, and characters whose decisions matter as much as the dangers confronting them.
