I dared not move… I was a bread stealer. A chicken feather villain.
A salted mutton thief. I guiltily recalled the paper, the ink, the
leather pouch I had stolen. And even though I had not intended it so… I
was a stowaway. Julienne roams the fortress tunnels of
Brest, France, cold, hungry and knowing only one thing about herself-her
name. Soon she must abandon even that remnant of her identity. She
becomes Jules, ship’s boy, journeying to Botany Bay and beyond on a
voyage of discovery for the glory of France, led by Commander Laperouse.Jules/Julienne
sees new and strange things on board the Boussole, but what she would
most like to discover is her own history: who is Julienne Fulbert?