The Wanderer

Gael Maddoc, the child of struggling peasants, leaps at the chance when she is offered training as a mounted soldier. She wins glory bringing her charges home safe across a huge desert, seeking aid from the shee. But the shee - the dwindling Fair Folk - then recruit her for their own purposes. Her nascent magical talents and her resourcefulness show her to be the Wanderer, a legendary figure for whom they've been waiting.