The Pearl — Geoffrey Knight

The Top End of Australia-a tropical paradise filled with beauty. Wonder. Danger. For two young boys growing up in the Northern Territory-half-Aboriginal Jarrah "Jad" Yindi and his best friend Luke Lawson-the remote beaches and aqua waters of the Top End are a playground of adventure. And as two best friends become young men, true love washes over them like the sea upon the sand. But life is full of challenges and change, and if Jad is to discover who he really is, he must piece together his ancestral past, his dream-filled present and his uncertain future to become the man he was always destined to be. Through water and fire; through love and loss; through the days of youth to the stories of the world's oldest living culture, journey across the heart of Australia- -to discover what's in the heart of one young man.