The Seams We Hide

By Julian Evern

Every family in Alderwake has a story about who built them. Nora Seo keeps the receipts.

When Nora wins a blind-juried fashion fellowship, she expects funding, scrutiny, and one chance to prove that damaged work can carry its history without being owned by it. She does not expect Adrian Marlowe-the creative director of a celebrated Canadian label-to recognize both her talent and the threat it poses to his company's carefully preserved past.

Adrian is trying to save Marlowe through a strategic sale while his marriage to Elise has become an arrangement of shared history and separate truths. Nora's work draws him toward a life outside that arrangement. Their attraction crosses a line, but clean professional boundaries cannot prevent private choices from creating public consequences.

Then missing archive records place Nora's authorship at risk, and Elise begins a provenance audit that could expose the company, the marriage, and her own failures. Nora must decide whether recognition is worth entering a family powerful enough to rewrite the record-and what she must keep for herself.

The Seams We Hide is an adult contemporary family saga about ambition, forbidden desire, class, authorship, and the damage truth cannot undo. It is the complete first novel in the connected Alderwake series.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HDMR7LGX
• ISBN13: 9798191843537
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.8" x 5.5"