Publisher's Synopsis
Twelve year-old Locket Morrain has everything she could ever want - except her freedom. Now that her mother, a wealthy heiress, is dead, Locket has been sent to live with a father she barely knows and her shallow stepmother in their huge, high-security mansion. Surrounded by bodyguards and shielded from the outside world by a vast stone wall, Locket is lonely and eager to know how the rest of the world lives. She soon realises that her loneliness and isolation are due to one thing - her gold. If Locket can make sure everyone has enough gold, perhaps she won't be so special, and live an ordinary life. Armed with a little alchemy, Locket escapes her 'prison' one night and goes in search of the only place she can do her magic - Golden Bay. Meeting up with the homeless Jason and his sister, Mimsy, on the way, Locket finally reaches her destination and carries out her plan, emerging a little older and wiser and 'richer' than she has ever been.
