Rosi's Castle (by Edward Eaton) website exerpt...

CHAPTER 1 (excerpt):

WITH a sigh, Rosi looked yet again at the clock above the door of the darkened doughnut shop.
     One o’clock.
     She was not happy.
     After spending too much time wandering around Boston sightseeing and avoiding the station, she had missed the earlier train but figured there would be a car waiting for her.
     There should have been a car waiting for her.
     She had left a bunch of messages at the number the lawyer gave her. Who would leave a fifteen-year-old girl alone at a train station at one in the morning?
     Looking around, she smiled as other late night travelers yawned and straggled to their cars or their waiting loved ones. A few families with cranky children and snapping parents laden with luggage strolled out of the station and left. A couple of homeless looking people came up asking for spare change. Rosi handed out some quarters and then pulled out a book hoping it would discourage further intrusion.
     Soon, the parking lot was empty and the only people around were a pair of janitors blasting a radio and sweeping up candy wrappers and cigarette butts.
     “You all right, miss?” one of the janitors called out to her.
     “Just waiting for my uncle.”
     “Wanna wait inside?”
     She shook her head. “No, but thanks.”
     Outside the station was creepy enough. Inside it just plain smelled.
     The concrete outside had a reassuring solidity to it and the lights made the place as bright as day, but the almost pitch black gloom looming beyond the parking lot made her nervous. She could not remember seeing a night even close to this dark. Even though the sky looked clear above her, the gloom was partially filled by a heavy dark storm cloud that drifted on a breeze that had yet to reach the station.
     Someone better pick her up soon, Rosi thought. That storm looked ready to burst.
     And there was the silence....