title: Tiger's Promise: A Tiger's Curse Novella (The Tiger's Curse Series)
author:  Colleen Houck 
description: New York Times Bestselling Author Colleen Houck is a lifelong reader whose literary interests include action, adventure, science fiction, and romance. Her first four novels, Tigers Curse, Tigers Quest, Tigers Voyage, and Tigers Destiny were New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestsellers. Formerly a student at the University of Arizona, she worked as a nationally certified American Sign Language interpreter for seventeen years before switching careers to become an author. Colleen lives in Salem, Oregon, with her husband and a huge assortment of plush tigers.
zlib_text: # Lie of the Tiger
  
  ##  John Martin
  
  ##  Cover by Maria Connors
  
  ![](Image00001.jpg) ![](Image00000.jpg)
  
  
  # The story begins
  
  _Lie of the Tiger_ is the first book in the Windy Mountain series of novels.
  This novel uses English spelling and grammar, with a sprinkling of Australian
  lingo.
  
  
  # Contents
  
  1. [ THE MYSTERY MAN ARRIVES ](text00004.html#chapter-1)
  
  2. [ MIRROR, MIRROR ON THE CEILING ](text00005.html#chapter-2)
  
  [ The truth about the Tasmanian tiger ](text00005.html#subhead-1)
  
  3. [ THE OLD MEN’S BET ](text00006.html#chapter-3)
  
  [ ‘You didn’t have to swear at me’ ](text00006.html#subhead-1)
  
  4. [ FRIGHT IN THE NIGHT ](text00007.html#chapter-4)
  
  [ Father O’Boring ](text00007.html#subhead-1)
  
  5. [ THE COW ON THE WALL ](text00008.html#chapter-5)
  
  [ The idea starts to form ](text00008.html#subhead-1)
  
  6. [ THE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT ](text00009.html#chapter-6)
  
  [ Speak of the devils ](text00009.html#subhead-1)
  
  7. [ A LONG WAY FROM DUNMANWAY ](text00010.html#chapter-7)
  
  [ The rush begi