Paullina Simons

The Tiger Catcher


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Chapter 1: The Invention of Love

       Chapter 14: Shame Toast

       Chapter 15: Charlie’s Dead

       Chapter 16: Fields of Asphodel

       Chapter 17: A Rose by Any Other Name

       Chapter 18: Lilikoi

       Chapter 19: Mystique

       Part Two: The Tiger Catcher

       Chapter 20: Klonopin

       Chapter 21: The Apothecary

       Chapter 22: Waterloo

       Chapter 23: White Crow

       Chapter 24: The Question

       Chapter 25: The Widow’s Daughter

       Chapter 26: Great Eastern Road

       Chapter 27: Red Beret, Take Two

       Chapter 28: When We Were Kings

       Chapter 29: Zero Meridian

       Chapter 30: Notting Hill

       Chapter 31: Time Over Matter

       Chapter 32: A Boy Called Wart

       Chapter 33: Dumbshow

       Part Three: Medea

       Chapter 34: Moongate

       Chapter 35: White Lava

       Chapter 36: Black River

       Chapter 37: Dead Queen, Take One

       Chapter 38: Chandlery

       Chapter 39: Medea

       Chapter 40: Lady Mary

       Chapter 41: The Italian Merchant

       Chapter 42: Fynnesbyrie Fields Forever

       Chapter 43: The Boy and the Boatman

       Chapter 44: Josephine and the Flying Machine

       Chapter 45: Sebastian

       Chapter 46: Consequences of Happiness

       Chapter 47: The Coat

       Chapter 48: Side Effects of Electrocution

       Chapter 49: The Lady, or the Tiger

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       Author’s Note

       About the Author

       By the same author

       About the Publisher

       PROLOGUE

       The Transit Circle

      I SHOULD HAVE KISSED YOU. JULIAN LAY NAKED ON HIS BED, clutching the red beret, staring at the ceiling. I should have kissed you the last time I saw you.

      After half a night passed like this, he gave up on sleep, jumped up and began to get ready. He had a lot to do to be in Greenwich by noon. Don’t dawdle, the cook told him. You have very little time. You have a picosecond inside of a minute. And don’t get stuck. Where you’re going, the opening is wide enough for one man, but not for all men.

      And what was Julian’s wise response to this?