From the international bestselling author of TULLY and THE BRONZE HORSEMAN comes an achingly beautiful new trilogy of love, lost and found.

Twenty-five years ago, Paullina Simons hit the literary scene with her debut novel, TULLY, which became an international sensation, garnering rave reviews, topping bestseller lists in 11 countries and selling over a million copies.

Then in 2001, Simons struck gold again with her international bestseller, THE BRONZE HORSEMAN, which has been published in over 23 countries and has sold millions of copies worldwide. Nearly twenty
years after its publication, it continues to be included in lists of all-time favorite novels, including Reedsy which in 2019 has voted it as one of the Top 10 Best Historical Romance Novels.

Now, Paullina Simons has returned with her most compelling saga yet. In THE TIGER CATCHER (William Morrow Trade Paperback
Original; May 28, 2019; ISBN 9780062394767; $16.99), the first book in the End of Forever Trilogy, Simons takes readers on an extraordinary adventure of love and loss across continents and time. Her captivating story will appeal to her millions of fans, as well as readers of Outlander, The Time Traveler’s Wife and JoJo Moyes’ novels.

William Morrow Publishers recognizes the fact that Paullina’s legions of devoted readers have become
accustomed to binge-watching their favorite TV shows and podcasts, and they are responding to this
demand with a groundbreaking program for the End of Forever trilogy to publish all three books in 2019.

THE TIGER CATCHER will be released in time for the Top Summer Reading lists in May; A BEGGAR’S KINGDOM will debut in August; and INEXPRESSIBLE ISLAND will be published in time for the holiday round-ups and Best of 2019 lists in December.

True love never dies.

The Tiger Catcher is the story of Julian, living a charmed life in Los Angeles, whose world is turned  upside down by a love affair with Josephine, a mysterious young woman who takes him by storm.
But she is not what she seems, carrying secrets that tear them apart—perhaps forever. So begins Julian and Josephine’s extraordinary adventure of love, loss, and the mystical forces that  bind people together across time and space. It is a journey that propels Julian toward impossible  choices which will lead him to love fulfilled … or to oblivion.

Q & A With Paullina

Q.  Your last epic love story began with The Bronze Horseman, which you published in 2001. Why have you waited so long to go back to this type of story?

A.  I will admit that after The Bronze Horseman I wondered whether or not I would ever write another book. I honestly thought there was nothing left in me to write about. Then I began the second book in the saga.

And then I had another idea, and another…

In 2014, I had an idea for a story about lost love and one man’s desperate search and an adventure to make things right, to get a second chance, to try again.

The story got bigger and bigger. I didn’t realize at first it was going to be this huge. But after about a year of writing and thinking about it, I knew. It just kept growing.

Q.  The Tiger Catcher takes place in Los Angeles and London. Do you have a personal connection to those places

A.  I lived and worked in London from 1984 to 1990, and I love that city. Los Angeles is the unrequited love of my life. I’ve dreamed of living there since I was 13.

Q.  The book also delves deeply into historical London, how did you do your research for that? How did you select the time periods in which to base your story?

A.  In some cases, they came with the story, like the Globe Theater and the Blitz. And in other cases, there were time periods that were just too important to ignore — like the Great Fire or the mid-nineteenth century where you had scientists like George Airy and religious philosophers like Charles Spurgeon living at the same time.

Q.  Usually your readers have to wait at least two years for a new book from you, and now they will be getting three books in a single year. Have you thought about what’s next?

A. Yes and no. On the one hand it’s hard to imagine starting something new since I have been in Julian’s world for five straight years. On the other hand, I started feeling the itch for my next book a year ago, and I have another three that I’m dying to get to.

ABOUT
Paullina Simons

Paullina Simons was born and raised in Leningrad, USSR. In 1968, her father was arrested for protesting the Soviet Union’s invasion of Czechoslovakia and spent the next five years of his life in the Gulag prison camps and in exile. In the mid-seventies, Paullina and her family managed to leave the U.S.S.R. and immigrate to the United States.

While growing up in Russia Paullina dreamed of someday becoming a
writer. Her dreams were put on hold as she learned English and overcame the shock of a new culture. After graduating from the University of Kansas and various jobs including working as a financial
journalist and as a translator, Paullina wrote her first novel Tully.

Through word of mouth, the book was welcomed by readers all over the world. She has since written twelve novels, a memoir, a cookbook, and two children’s books. Her books have been published in over 23 countries, sold millions of copies, and have been on many bestseller lists around the world.

Paullina has lived in Rome, London, and Dallas, and now lives in New York with her husband and half
of her children.

THE TIGER CATCHER, Paullina’s first book in the new End of Forever Trilogy, will be published in
May 2019. A BEGGAR’S KINGDOM, Book Two, will be published in August 2019, and the final book in the trilogy, INEXPRESSIBLE ISLAND, will be published in December 2019

BOOKS BY PAULLINA SIMONS

TULLY (St. Martin’s Press, 1994)
RED LEAVES (St. Martin’s Press, 1996)
ELEVEN HOURS (St. Martin’s Press, 1998)
THE BRONZE HORSEMAN (HarperCollins, 2001)
TATIANA AND ALEXANDER (Book 2 in The Bronze Horseman Trilogy, HarperCollins, 2003)
THE GIRL IN TIMES SQUARE (HarperCollins, 2004)
THE SUMMER GARDEN (Book 3 in Bronze Horseman Trilogy, HarperCollins, 2005)
TATIANA’S TABLE (Cookbook, HarperCollins, 2007)
ROAD TO PARADISE (HarperCollins, 2007)
A SONG IN THE DAYLIGHT (HarperCollins, 2009)
CHILDREN OF LIBERTY (Prequel to The Bronze Horseman, William Morrow, 2012)
BELLAGRAND (William Morrow, 2013)
I LOVE MY BABY BECAUSE (Children’s, HarperCollins, 2014)
POPPET GETS TWO BIG BROTHERS (Children’s, HarperCollins, 2015)
SIX DAYS IN LENINGRAD (Memoir, HarperCollins, 2015)
LONE STAR (William Morrow, 2015)
THE TIGER CATCHER (Book 1 in the End of Forever Trilogy, William

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