Seams Of Power - Book I: Under Every Step
Seams of Power - Book 1: Under Every Step
Arby Riswell is the kind of craftsman most people overlook-a flooring installer with a beat-up stair tool, worn jeans, and kneepads that hum with a secret energy he discovered in a palace a world away. At eighty-three, he should be slowing down. Instead, every job he takes makes him stronger. Every corridor he tunes whispers a little more truth.
When Arby steps onto a floor, he's not just laying pad and carpet. He's tying cities together. From Bill's restored workshop in Cottonwood to a hidden chamber in Qu bec, from red carpets in Cannes to truck-stop lobbies on Route 66, luxury yachts in the Mediterranean, opera houses in Vienna, penthouses in Dubai, casinos in the Caribbean, English estates, desert art caravans, and finally a mirrored tunnel beneath Kansas City-each job is another node in a network most people will never see.
On the surface, Under Every Step is about a small crew doing high-end work:
Arby, the master installer with a mysterious reverse-aging pad under his knees
Charlee, sharp-eyed partner, reading people as easily as blueprints
Sam "Dragon" Weeler, the apprentice learning to see what lies beneath the slab
Beneath that, it's about power.
Each chapter centers on a real job and a single "law" at work on site-never outshine the master, conceal your intentions, court attention, crush sabotage, surrender strategically, play on people's need to believe, discover each man's thumbscrew, stir up waters to catch fish, preach change without breaking tradition, assume formlessness, and finally, return to the place where all the corridors converge.
At the end of every chapter, Arby's Job Notes break the work down like a seasoned foreman talking to his crew-part field report, part training manual, part quiet confession about what it takes to do right by people who will never know your name.
As the jobs escalate, Arby begins to understand that:
The pads beneath his knees are part of something older and stranger than any product spec.
Every tuned floor is more than comfort-it's a decision about who gets protected, guided, or quietly pushed.
Someone else-the watcher-may be mapping the same network for their own purposes.
By the time he returns to Kansas City to open the Arcadian gateway beneath a forgotten service corridor, Arby has wired half the world into a pattern that can no longer be called coincidence.
Under Every Step is blue-collar epic fantasy for readers who like their magic under steel toes instead of wizard robes-a story about work, loyalty, invisible power, and the costs of quietly holding up the world so everyone else can walk.
Enter here. Just watch where you step.
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