She sold the world a fantasy of Black Wall Street. Then she woke up inside the truth — six days before it burned.
Camille “Cami” Beaumont built an empire on heritage, beauty, and curated Black excellence. To her two million followers, she is Cami Curated — the woman who turns history into luxury, grief into light, and legacy into something people can buy.
But after her great-grandmother Pearl’s funeral, Cami’s life collapses.
A tone-deaf campaign shot on the sacred ground of Greenwood, Tulsa — the site of the 1921 massacre — detonates online. Sponsors flee. Friends disappear. And for the first time, Cami is forced to face the truth: she has been selling a past she never understood.
Then she receives Pearl’s final inheritance: an old tortoiseshell comb carved with feathers, warm to the touch, and a message she cannot understand.
Tell her I kept it for her. She’ll know when.
That night, broken and alone, Cami puts the comb in her hair and wakes up in Greenwood, Oklahoma, in May 1921.
The Dreamland Theatre is alive with music. Black doctors, tailors, teachers, printers, and shopkeepers fill the streets. Families laugh, children play, newspapers roll off the press, and a whole city of Black brilliance stands before her — breathing, beautiful, and doomed.
Cami knows what is coming.
In six days, Greenwood will burn.
She tries to warn them. She tries to stop history. But the past refuses to move. The only thing she may be able to change is who survives within reach of her hands.
And when she meets ten-year-old Pearl Mayfield — sharp, watchful, always sketching the world as if she knows it might disappear — Cami begins to understand why she was sent back.
Pearl is not just a child in danger.
Pearl is her great-grandmother.
To save her own future, Cami must save the girl who carried a century of silence. But Greenwood will demand a terrible price, and Cami will learn that some stories cannot be captured, curated, or sold.
They can only be witnessed.
A sweeping time-slip novel of Black Wall Street, family secrets, ancestral memory, and one woman’s impossible journey into the night history tried to bury.
