The Pearl Thief

Author  Elizabeth Wein
The Pearl Thief

A stunning new novel from New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Wein, a prequel to the award-winning Code Name Verity.

Before Verity . . . there was Julie.
  
   When fifteen-year-old Julia Beaufort-Stuart wakes up in the hospital, she knows the lazy summer break she'd imagined won't be exactly like she anticipated. And once she returns to her grandfather's estate, a bit banged up but alive, she begins to realize that her injury might not have been an accident. One of her family's employees is missing, and he disappeared on the very same day she la
nded in the hospital.
   
  Desperate to figure out what happened, she befriends Euan McEwen, the Scots Traveller boy who found her when she was injured,…