Into the world / Stephanie Parkyn.

In the midst of the French Revolution, in 1791, unwed
mother Marie-Louise Girardin takes one last look at her
baby son before thrusting him into the arms of her friend,
the revolutionary Olympe de Gouges. She must escape, and
only the most daring plan will bring her both the
anonymity she needs and the independence to return one day
for her son. Marie-Louise disguises herself as a man and
joins a voyage of exploration employed as a steward on the
Recherche, one of two ships commissioned to journey to the
Great Southern Ocean to find the missing explorer La
Perouse. Protecting her identity throughout, Marie-Louise
forms friendships among the eccentric naturalists. But
tensions rise between the royalist officers and the
revolutionaries, and Marie-Louise's position becomes
precarious when she discovers someone on board knows the
secrets of her past. When the expedition docks in Java,
chaos erupts as they learn of King Louis XVI's execution
and are imprisoned by the Dutch. Marie-Louise seems
certain to be unmasked. Will she ever return to France and
be reunited with her child?