11 year-old bookworm Winnie Turner is thrown into a real-life adventure of her own when her gangster father is paroled early and she discovers the quilt her late mother left her is an Underground Railroad to keep her one step ahead of his henchmen. Each square in the quilt is a character from her mother's past, with clues to who Ayesha Turner was, and why she abandoned her only daughter to the winds of fate. Join Winnie on Part One of her journey, where she meets the first three characters in her quilt, and learns about the mother she never knew...