What Remains Unsigned

Solène Valcère has spent twenty-one years deciding every detail of her haute couture house. At fifty-one, her reputation is impeccable, but her accounts threaten to force her to close her doors. She has ten weeks to present the collection that could save the atelier.Lucie Arvenne, a thirty-one-year-old freelance patternmaker, knows how to bring those designs to life. She also knows the cost of doing the work only for someone else to take the credit. She accepts the commission on one condition: her name will appear alongside her contribution.Amidst garment fittings, disagreements, and nights that stretch on, Solène begins to seek a closeness she doesn't know how to ask for. Lucie discovers how much she desires this woman-someone capable of spotting a crooked seam yet overlooking what is right in front of her.But the investor wants to sell a story with a single protagonist. And Solène will have to answer for her choice.Lucie might fall in love with her. But disappearing behind her name was never part of the deal.