A moving blend of Victorian romance, ghostly mystery, and spiritual rescue, A Young Man's Story by Sarah Doudney follows Horace Medway as he looks back on a love nearly lost to pride, ambition, and emotional distance. After parting from May Newton, the woman he once hoped to marry, Horace experiences a chilling supernatural warning on a railway platform: a pale vision of May urgently begging him to leave his train. When disaster strikes the train soon after, he discovers that May, gravely ill miles away, had dreamed of traveling in spirit to save him.