Contents

Prologue

Chapter One: In Which Nathanial and Annabelle Are Summoned by a Frenchman

Chapter Two: In Which Annabelle Learns About the Ghosts

Chapter Three: In Which Nathanial and Arnaud Get Down to Some Science, and Annabelle Witnesses Something Inexplicable

Chapter Four: In Which Nathanial and Arnaud Hear of Annabelle’s Experience

Chapter Five: In Which Nathanial and Arnaud Descend into the Planet

Chapter Six: In Which the Body Is Examined

Chapter Seven: In Which Hermes Is Revealed

Chapter Eight: In Which Colonel Shawbridge Faces an Impossibility

Chapter Nine: In Which Nathanial Makes a Bad Situation Worse

Chapter Ten: In Which Annabelle Discovers a Plot

Chapter Eleven: In Which Nathanial and Arnaud Take Action

Chapter Twelve: In Which Shawbridge Is Made an Incredible Offer

Chapter Thirteen: In Which the Dreadful Truth Becomes Apparent

Chapter Fourteen: In Which Things Are Not Completely What They Seem to Be

Chapter Fifteen: In Which Annabelle Says Goodbye

Epilogue: In Which Nathanial and Annabelle Bid Farewell to Mercury

Acknowledgements