Found: A girl and a golden box, a white stag maybe featured on the cover

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Found: A girl and a golden box, a white stag maybe featured on the cover

1sparklegem
Edited: Dec 2, 2023, 3:46 am

This book was in my middle school library sometime around 1998, so should have been published before 2000.

It's fiction, probably YA since it was in a pre-high school library, likely fantasy (involving magic) but I'm fuzzy on that. If not fantasy, the setting is definitely pre-modern technology.

I think the protagonist was a young woman, there was a white stag or other deer-like species that featured very prominently that the women may have ridden, and the plot had to do with some sort of special golden box that the women I believe had possession of and possibly needed to go on a journey to bring it somewhere.

My best recollection of the cover art is that I think the white stag was the prominent feature, and otherwise the dominant color of the cover was dark, cool tones. Blue, purple, black -- something along those lines.

These are the details I can recollect to the best of my ability, but I could be wrong about something as well.

Thank you very much to anyone to spends time thinking about this puzzler!

2sparklegem
Dec 2, 2023, 3:51 am

With great luck, I found it with some additional searching. It's Gleaming Bright: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2046118.Gleaming_Bright.

3Aquila
Dec 2, 2023, 4:30 am

Touchstone: Gleaming Bright