The Cautious Traveller’s Guide to the Wastelands: A Novel

Trans-Siberian Express is a mesmerizing historical fantasy set on a magical and dangerous train journey across the Wastelands. Passengers—each with secrets and personal quests—face wondrous yet perilous creatures, and every trip demands a mysterious, hidden price.

The story follows Zhang Weiwei, who knows the train’s secrets, Marya Petrovna, a grieving woman hiding her identity, Henry Grey, a disgraced naturalist seeking redemption, and Elena, a stowaway with a mysterious connection to the Wastelands. As friendships form and rules shift, the passengers must navigate trust, danger, and the train’s ever-changing, magical landscape before it consumes them all.