Rebel of the Sands (Rebel of the Sands #1) by Alwyn Hamilton

Tell me how you want your story to go, he says, and we'll write it straight across the sand.

Dustwalk is an unforgiving, dead-end town.
It's not the place to be poor or orphaned or female.
And yet Amani Al-Hiza must call it 'home'.

Amani wants to escape and see the world she's heard about in campfire stories.

Then a foreigner with no name turns up, and with him she has the chance to run.

But the desert plains are full of dangerous magic. The Sultan's army is on the rise and Amani is soon caught at the heart of a fearless rebellion. . .

An epic story of swirling desert sands, love, magic and revolution.