In the distant Middle Ages, during the Caliphate, in a village lost in the sands of the Sahara, there lived a lame girl. And she had the gift of predicting rain. The locals were afraid of Aulia; she was not destined to get married. So she would have spent her whole life, talking with goats and scorpions, if one day a horseman in a burnt burnous had not galloped into the village. He was from another world where women cover their faces and palaces reach to the sky. The love that settled in Aulia’s heart gave her a dream. In search of her, Auliya sets off on a journey where she faces predators, captivity and death. Fairy tales of a thousand and one nights become a fatal reality, and overcoming them alone can threaten the loss of life... or the loss of oneself. Veronica Murguia is a Mexican writer, historian and artist by training, who has created a gallery of strong and unusual female characters. In Auliya, motifs from oriental fairy tales are intertwined into a novel and take on direct psychological meaning. In 2022, Murguia was nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial International Literary Award (ALMA).