All Thalissa wants to do is go to her new home, where the rest of her family has started a new life. But the trip is long and expensive, and at the rate she's earning money she'll be stuck in her childhood home of Redvale until she's old and grey--that is, before she finds a necklace on the sandy banks of the Copper Sea. She sees it as a chance to earn the funds she needs, but the necklace proves to be far past priceless: hanging from that blood-gold chain hangs the gilded heart of a magician, and the star he tore from the sky.
