The Court of Miracles

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Kester Grant. The Court of Miracles

THE COURT OF MIRACLES. Kester Grant

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THE LAW OF THE MIRACLE COURT

PART ONE. How Fear Came. 1823

THE FOUNDING OF THE MIRACLE COURT. FROM L’HISTOIRE DE PARIS, BY THE DEAD LORD

1. Le Début de l’Histoire

2. The Keepers of the Gates

3. The Lord of Thieves

4. She Who Sleeps

5. The Claws of the Hawk

PART TWO. The Dead Wolf. 1829

THE FOX RENNART’S REVENGE. FROM STORIES OF THE MIRACLE COURT, BY THE DEAD LORD

6. The Tiger

7. The Black Cat’s Choice

8. The Dealers of Death

9. The Dead

10. La Vallée de Misère

11. The Dead Lord

12. Les Oubliettes

13. The Miracle Court

14. The Master’s Hand

PART THREE. The Bread Price

THE TALE OF THE SIX LITTLE MICE. FROM STORIES OF THE MIRACLE COURT, BY THE DEAD LORD

15. The Fountain

16. The Dead Trial

17. The Pont Neuf

18. Of Drownings

19. The Dauphin of France

20. Ettie’s Tale

21. The Sisters

22. The Mesmerist

23. Les Diamants de la Couronne

24. The Bread Price

25. The Stripes of the Cat

PART FOUR. The Black Cat’s Hunting. 1832

HOW THE TIGER GOT HIS STRIPES. FROM STORIES OF THE MIRACLE COURT, BY THE DEAD LORD

26. The Société des Droits de l’Homme

27. Gray Brother

28. Master of Knives

29. Of Paper and Rats

30. What the Lords Said

31. The Dead Lord’s Word

32. She Who Was Lost

33. The Ruined Flesh

34. The Truth

35. Inspector Javert

36. A Little Fall of Rain

37. The Courier

38. The Tiger’s Lair

39. The Black Cat’s Father

40. The Death Song

41. The End of the Tale

Les milles remerciements—en ordre chronologique

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To Mum, who filled my world with stories, and Babu, who gave me the words to tell them

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“When you think the darkness is coming for you, when you are small and frail and fear that our mother the City is trying to destroy you, you must not let her. Do you hear me? You must survive.”

“I w-will, I swear it,” I say, my voice trembling.

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