Publisher's Synopsis
Neesa is an orphan girl who dreams of escape from servitude in the City of the Wall and the cruel Master of Gold - to chase her dream of the Red Desert horses and the Master of Horse, only to find the Master of Gold isn't going to let her go until he takes what she doesn't know she's got. Her Touch of Wild Magic. She's trapped. No choices for her life but slavery. Neesa plans her escape, prepares for the day she can be free to make her own choices. But on the day of Allocation, she's accused of cheating, of using magic to manipulate the List, and when the Master of Horse comes to claim her as his student, the Master of Gold refuses. He has other plans for her, and none of them involve her remaining alive for long. The only chance she has is to run into the desert of death, the red desert, and chase the Master of Horse. If she can find him. But better a death by desert than from the cruel hands of the Master of Terror.
