Richard Lionheart — Author of the Midnight Train Trilogy
Richard Lionheart is the author of the Midnight Train
Trilogy — an adult supernatural thriller series with
paranormal, cosmic, and Pleiadian dimensions, conceived
in 1990 and built across three decades of writing.
The trilogy follows FBI Special Agent Mike Dunleavy
across three novels — from the moment he boards a train
that defies physics, through a night of captivity that
breaks every boundary he has ever known, and into a
dimensional truth that rewrites everything he believed
about love, death, and time itself.
Book I — Enlightened Shadows — is available now on Amazon.
Book II — Hijacked at Midnight — is in active production.
One train. One night. 12:39 am from Cartagena to Medellín.
Book III — Aurora: The Legend of the Ghost Train —
is in development. The Ghost Train reveals its final secret.
Richard Lionheart is published under Aurelian Terra
Syndicate LLC. The trilogy is distributed globally
via Amazon KDP.
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Testimonials from 1st chapter preview Readers
"The postcard of Nathalie falling from the book scene & Mike's reaction got me. God knows how many times I've felt that with the I loved"
"It's amazing that Richard has powerful female characters like Kathleen and Nathalie while giving space for the masculine, purest form and expression!"
Statistics Behind the Book's Reception
An insightful look into how 'Hijacked at Midnight' has resonated with readers globally.
What Makes This Book Different
Hijacked at Midnight is not a conventional thriller. It is a psychological and sensual journey compressed into a single night — with a cosmic dimension that only reveals itself when you least expect it. 3 Tiles of changes:
Tile 1 — The Emotional Architecture
Mike's journey through the night follows six emotional stages — Anger, Hatred, Hopelessness, Despair, Release, and Bliss. Each stage is a chapter. Each chapter is a door he cannot close behind him.
Tile 2 — One Setting, Total Immersion
Every scene takes place aboard a single overnight train. No escape. No relief. The contained geography makes the psychological journey feel inescapable — and the transformation undeniable.
Tile 3 — The Cosmic Undercurrent
Beneath the thriller surface, something older and larger is moving. Readers of Enlightened Shadows will recognize the signs. New readers will feel them. The Ghost Train does not appear in Book II — but it is already coming.