KevaughnThames
In 1889 Kingston, a dress is never just a dress. Sometimes, it's a map to freedom.
Cecelia is a talented apprentice seamstress with a needle, thread, and a dangerous secret.
With colonial oppression suffocating her family and a massive labor strike threatening to tear Jamaica apart, she knows their only hope is to escape to Panama.
The key? A coded ancestral dress ,the Bandana of Madras, that hides a forgotten Maroon-Taino smuggling route.
As the city prepares for the grandest festival of the year, Cecelia realizes the Midnight Masquerade is the perfect cover.
But with her brother Marcus's safety on the line, the watchful eyes of the merchant tailor Mr. Sterling, and a complicated romance with Al pulling at her focus, one wrong stitch could unravel the entire plan.
At the masquerade, everyone wears a disguise. But Cecelia is sewing her survival.