Barbed Wire Fields?

The Barbed Wire Fields

    Twelve-year-old Experience Parsell would give anything to fit in. But with a
name no one can change, a necklace that can’t be removed, and overwhelming magical
abilities she can’t hide, she’ll never be normal. When her family moves to Nowhere,
Arizona, a modern-day town where the residents dress in old-fashioned costumes and
sell hair tonic at 1800’s prices, Experience discovers the family secret. In the
brood of nine rambunctious brothers and two frazzled parents, she’s the only adopted
child, and they got her in Nowhere eleven years ago.

    Determined to find a place to belong, Experience finds herself drawn to the
strange, fenced-in field of barren desert on the edge of town. Beyond the barbed wire
lies a mirage only Experience can reach, the entrance to the magical land of Anacapia,
her true home. There she comes face to face with her embittered twin sister and her
birth parents, who explain she isn’t just a misfit, she’s marked for death. Branded
at birth as a world-ending threat by Jettaini, the breathtakingly delicate beauty who
rules Anacapia with an iron fist in a glove so smooth, her subjects thank her for the
loss of every freedom she sucks away.

    Though publicly part of the government, in secret her parents formed the Sub
Rosa, a covert society dedicated to overthrowing Jettaini and securing Experience’s
safe return. As one of the rare Unbindables, someone with limitless magical
potential, Experience is the weapon the Sub Rosa’s been waiting for. Experience’s
parents beg her to stay so they can teach her to control her powers.

    Unwilling to completely abandon her adoptive family, Experience slips away to
Anacapia for training until she’s ready to risk a trip into Incendia-–The Palace of
Water and Fire, the only place where her potential for destruction can be determined.
Each trip risking discovery by the secret police who’ve been hunting her since birth.
As her confidence grows, Experience finds herself fitting in both worlds. And the
girl once tormented by loneliness, is now torn between two homes.

                            ~A young adult novel~