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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 landed in the hospital. Desperate to figure out what happened, she befriends Euan McEwen, the Scottish Traveller boy who found her when she was injured, and his standoffish sister, Ellen. As Julie grows closer to this family, she experiences some of the prejudices they’ve grown used to firsthand, a stark contrast to her own upbringing, and finds herself exploring thrilling new experiences that have nothing to do with a missing-person investigation. Her memory of that day returns to her in pieces, and when a body is discovered, her new friends are caught in the crosshairs of long-held biases about Travellers. Julie must get to the bottom of the mystery in order to keep them from being framed for the crime.
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Julia Beaufort is at her late grandfather's estate for the summer to help pack things up and say goodbye to one of her favorite places. After her grandfather died, he left his family's finances in ruin which is why everything is being sold; family artifacts, clothes, and even the precious pearls.
When Julia wakes up in a hospital, she knows that this summer will be nothing like she thought it was going to be as she sets out to find out who hurt her and who stole her grandfather's pearls. Julie soon finds that nothing is really as it seems; the people who rescued her are seen as low life gypsies even though Julia knows that isn't the case and relationships that are hidden soon come to life.
The longer summer goes on, the more that Julia starts to remember about that day out at the river's edge. Will she be able to remember what happened before her attacker strikes again? Will her grandfather's pearls ever be found again?
I found this to be a little bit of a slow read. I love the other Code Name Verity books, and this one just seemed to be lacking something that the others definitely had. It wasn't terrible, it just wasn't keeping my undivided attention. I wasn't quite sure how it fit in with the other books in the series, that really honestly could be because I have a terrible memory of books and just can't remember where the characters come in. I bought this for my collection because I know how good the other books are, but I'm not sure how well this will circulate without some major pushing on my part.
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