Walk on Earth a Stranger

Lee Westfall has a strong, loving family, a home she loves, and a loyal steed.  She has a best friend. . . who may want to be something more.  She also has a secret.  Lee can sense gold in the world around her.  Veins deep in the earth.  Small nuggets in a stream.  Even gold dust caught underneath a fingernail.  What would someone do to control a girl with that kind of power?  A person might murder for it. When everything Lee holds dear is ripped away, she flees west-to California, where gold has just been discovered.  Perhaps this will be the one place a magical girl can be herself.  If she survives the journey. The first book in the Gold Seer trilogy, from Rae Carson, author of the award-winning and New York Times-bestselling Girl of Fire and Thorns series.