Good fortune is just for a season.
 
Mollie Ringgold learned young that there were things about herself she could not afford to let people see. Born enslaved on an Arkansas plantation, she has an uncommon gift for numbers and an eye sharp enough to catch a gambler cheating across a crowded table. Her master finds those talents useful, but Mollie understands that being too clever can be dangerous.
 
Then one night leaves a woman dead and Mollie running for her life. She reaches Tulsa with little more than her wits and the chance to become someone no one owns. There she finds love, work, and a growing Black community full of people building businesses and futures of their own.
 
Mollie wants a piece of that future, and Bishop "The Bull" Douglas can give her one. His saloon puts her talents to work again, and before long she has money in her pocket and a place inside an empire built as much on fear as opportunity. The life she once could not imagine having is suddenly hers, but Bishop keeps accounts of his own.
 
By the time Mollie understands the price of doing business in his world, walking away may be the one thing he will not allow. Inspired by century-old family documents, Good Golly Ms. Mollie follows one woman's path from an Arkansas plantation to the dangerous promise of Greenwood. There, freedom brings Mollie choices no one ever expected her to have, and consequences she alone will carry.