The Train Station ~ Chapter 1

Emily Lockett, a 15-year-old girl whose life and spirt was destroyed by the war that has both killed her father when she was only 10 years old and shipped her 17-year older brother, Jared, off to war. Emily and her mother begin with the same habits every day spending long hours cleaning and cooking to ease the thoughts of the war, as well as spending day after day in the same pattern, sleep, eat, chores, clean, cook, eat, repeat. Emily an ordinary girl with no hopes strives to keep her life ordinary but makes an unusual discovery as she becomes "friends" with a young homeless boy and his sister.