Millicent's Innocence

Millicent Fleming was born to innovate, but the world was built to stop her.From age twelve, Millicent Fleming was fascinated by the hum of innovation and industrialization as a path to future progress and improvement. In 1887, at the age of nineteen, when she entered the Hargrove & Sons hosiery mill, she saw a system she could perfect, believing that her mixed heritage wouldn't matter as much as her mind.Possessing a natural skill for streamlining production and elevating those around her, Millicent quickly becomes a defiant force for good. She finds herself caught between the two brother-owners, one who shares her own innovative spirit and the other who clings to a dying tradition.As she realizes that the system despises both her identity and her talent, she soon learns that humanity, acceptance, and understanding are the true keys to innovation.Millicent's Innocence is an exploration of identity, the cost of ambition, and the enduring strength of human connection. It is the story of a woman who tried to open her heart to a cruel world only to learn she was in a world of her own.