Dominoes Audiobook

A tender and provocative debut novel about a mixedrace British woman who makes the shocking discovery in the days leading up to her wedding that her fiancs family may have enslaved her ancestors

Simultaneously sweet and sobering this is one you will not want to missOnyi Nwabineli author of Someday Maybe

Dominoes opens in London twentynine days before a young couples wedding Layla is a mixedrace womanwith a Black Jamaican mother and a white father shes never metand Andy is a white man of Scottish descent When they first meet at a party they cant believe how instant their chemistry is and how quickly their relationship unfolds Funnily enough they even share a last name McKinnon

Laylas best friend Sera isnt so sure about Andy or the fact that her best friend is engaged a white man As the wedding approaches Sera prompts her friend to research her heritage more leading Layla to make a shocking discovery Its extremely likely that Andys ancestors enslaved Laylas in Jamaica and that the money from that enslavement helped build his familys wealth

What seemed like a fairytale romance is suddenly derailed as Layla begins to uncover parts of her history and identity that she never imaginedor had simply learned to ignore The process takes her to Jamaica for the first time where she uncovers truths about her familys history that will change the way she thinks about herself and her future As the clock ticks down to her wedding Layla must make a decision commit to the man she loves or expose a shameful history that has gone unspoken for far too long