For fans of The Book Thief and Raiders of the Lost Ark, this thrilling new novel set during World War I features a girl who must pretend to be a male soldier to save her younger brothers.
Adi is an outrider, rejected by both her British fatherās and Indian motherās cultures, so she is no stranger to trouble. But when a mysterious agitator called āCoalā kidnaps Adiās twin brothers, Adi has to rely on herself to find them. With strength and cunning as fierce as any boyās, she decides to cut her hair and put on a military uniform to slip unnoticed through the chaos of the early days of World War I. When Adi finds a pocket watch that could be the clue to her lost brothers, she must figure out a way to decode itābefore time runs out.