Charleston, 1760. Lillian is sixteen - a seamstress by trade, a healer by blood. Her Cherokee mother taught her hands before the war took her family; a Scottish apothecary gave her shelter when the road ended. But Charleston is a tinderbox. In hidden rooms, men who lost one war to the Crown are planning the next - and when a letter must reach Williamsburg, Lillian rides north disguised as a young bride, with a boy she is learning to love and treason sewn into his coat. Through ambush and wilderness, fever and kindness, she carries the rebellion's hope home again. But the Crown is hanging traitors in the streets of Charleston - and Lillian must decide, at last, what her hands are for. What the Hands Remember is Book One of Lillian, a historical novel set in the last years before the American Revolution.