End of Forever Books in Order

The End of Forever trilogy—The Tiger Catcher, A Beggar’s Kingdom and Inexpressible Island—takes Paullina Simons’s love of big, emotional stories and adds a speculative twist. At its heart is Julian, a successful but restless man in contemporary Los Angeles, and Josephine, the enigmatic woman he falls for with dizzying speed. Their relationship burns bright, then shatters just days before their planned wedding.

Devastated and unable to accept that Josephine is simply gone, Julian starts pulling on the loose threads of her past. What he finds is stranger than anything he imagined: hints of other lives, other eras and a pattern of loss that seems to repeat. A chance encounter with a mysterious guide offers him an impossible choice—risk everything he knows to follow Josephine beyond the normal boundaries of time, or walk away and let grief run its course.

He chooses to follow, and that decision turns a contemporary love story into a journey through different periods and identities where the same two souls keep finding—and losing—each other.

In The Tiger Catcher the focus is on the first, earthbound romance and the shock that propels Julian onto this path. A Beggar’s Kingdom widens the scope, dropping him and Josephine into new centuries and social worlds as they try again and again to outwit fate. By Inexpressible Island, Julian has already paid a high price for every second chance, and the trilogy is as much about what a person should sacrifice for love as it is about whether true love can span lifetimes.

Across the books Simons balances the sweep of historical settings with the close-up texture of one man’s emotional unraveling and slow rebuilding. There are scenes of adventure and danger, but the tension often comes from quieter questions: if you could change one terrible moment, should you, and what new wounds might that create for yourself or others?

Tone‑wise, the End of Forever series sits somewhere between romantic fantasy and time‑slip drama. Readers who enjoy knotty, character‑driven love stories with a touch of the uncanny will find familiar Simons hallmarks here: intense emotion, moral gray areas, and characters who are allowed to be flawed, stubborn and deeply human even as they brush against the mystical.