Arthur Jeremy - A Beggars Kingdom

Contents

To Kevin,

I can do all things through you who strengthens me.

Guess I was kidding myself into believing that I had a choice in this thing, huh?

Johnny Blaze, aka Ghost Rider

Paullina Simons is the author of Tully, The Bronze Horseman, and other beloved novels. Born and raised in the Soviet Union, she immigrated to the United States in the mid-seventies. She has lived in Rome, London, and Dallas, and now lives in New York with her husband and a dwindling number of her four children.

FICTION

Tully

Red Leaves

Eleven Hours

The Girl in Times Square

Road to Paradise

A Song in the Daylight

Lone Star

The Bronze Horseman Series

The Bronze Horseman

Tatiana and Alexander

The Summer Garden

Children of Liberty

Bellagrand

The End of Forever Saga

The Tiger Catcher

A Beggars Kingdom

NON FICTION

Tatianas Table

Six Days in Leningrad

Tully

Youll never look at life in the same way again. Pick up this book and prepare to have your emotions wrung so completely youll be sobbing your heart out one minute and laughing through your tears the next. Read it and weepliterally.

Company

Red Leaves

Simons handles her characters and setting with skill, slowly peeling away deceptions to reveal denial, cowardice and chilling indifference an engrossing story.

Publishers Weekly

Eleven Hours

Eleven Hours is a harrowing, hair-raising story that will keep you turning the pages late into the night.

Janet Evanovich

The Bronze Horseman

A love story both tender and fierce (Publishers Weekly) that recalls Dr. Zhivago. (People Magazine)

The Bridge to Holy Cross

This has everything a romance glutton could wish for: a bold, talented and dashing hero [and] a heart-stopping love affair that nourishes its two protagonists even when they are separated and lost.

Daily Mail

The Girl in Times Square

Part mystery, part romance, part family drama in other words, the perfect book.

Daily Mail

The Summer Garden

If youre looking for a historical epic to immerse yourself in, then this is the book for you.

Closer

Road to Paradise

One of our most exciting writers Paullina Simons presents the perfect mix of page-turning plot and characters.

Woman and Home

A Song in the Daylight

Simons shows the frailties of families and of human nature, and demonstrates that theres so much more to life, such as honesty and loyalty.

Good Reading

Bellagrand

Another epic saga from Simons, full of the emotion and heartache of the original trilogy. Summer reading at its finest.

Canberra Times

Lone Star

Another epic love storyperfect reading for a long, lazy day in bed.

Better Reading

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First published by HarperCollins Publishers Australia Pty Ltd in 2019

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Cover images: Hands by Mark Owen / Trevillion Images; Icebergs on the water by Jason Hynes / Getty Images

Part title illustrations by Paullina Simons

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Paullina Simons asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

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This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the authors imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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Source ISBN: 9780007441679

Ebook Edition August 2019 ISBN: 9780007441686

Version: 2019-07-09

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A SHTON WAS AFFABLE BUT SKEPTICAL . W HY DO WE NEED TO paint the apartment ourselves?

Because the work of ones hands is the beginning of virtue, Julian said, dipping the roller into the tray. Dont just stand there. Get cracking.

Who told you such nonsense? Ashton continued to just stand there. And youre not listening. I meant, painting seems like a permanent improvement. Why are we painting at all? Theres no way, no how were staying in London another year, right? Thats just you being insane like always, or trying to save money on the lease, or Jules? Tell the truth. Dont baby me. Im a grown man. I can take it. Were not staying in London until the lease runs out in a year, right? Thats not why youre painting?