Montgomery, 1955.

Evening settles over the city like dust on worn shoes and bus windows. A seamstress boards Bus 2857, her hands still scented with thread and soap, her body weary from another day. When the driver orders her to move, she remains seated—quietly, firmly, as though the earth itself has taken her side.
 

The Seat of Courage reimagines the world of Rosa Parks in luminous detail: the hum of the electric lights at the sewing table, the soft murmur of her husband’s prayers, the tremor in her chest as she faces down centuries of silence. Within the stillness of her defiance, a nation begins to stir.
 

Through lyrical prose and intimate portraits of those who stood—and sat—beside her, this novel captures the pulse of an awakening America. It is the story of a woman whose gentleness became power, whose quiet became thunder, and whose single act of grace changed history’s rhythm forever.