The Seamstress and the Divorce Lawyer
A Vintage Wedding Dress Mystery Romance

About this book:

When textile conservator Evie Miller unpacks a 1928 Callot Soeurs wedding gown from a sealed cedar chest, she expects silk and beadwork—not a hidden letter, two unused tickets to Montreal, and a lead bar scratched with vault combinations. The note, signed only "T," urges a runaway bride to flee her society wedding before the church bells ring. The groom: Julian Sterling, scion of a banking dynasty. The runaway: Clara Delacroix, who supposedly died of pneumonia weeks later. But the dress tells a different story—she wore it, powdered her nose, then vanished with her dressmaker's assistant into the October rain.

Estate liquidator Marcus Vance has his own ghosts. The handwriting in the letter matches his great-uncle Thomas, a draftsman who disappeared the same night in 1928. The divorce lawyer authorized to burn the evidence? Julian Sterling IV—Jack to his enemies—whose firm bears the name Sterling, *Vance* & Montgomery. As Evie and Marcus trace Clara's steps through archived ledgers and locked manor rooms, they uncover a conspiracy that reaches from Jazz Age bootlegging to modern high-stakes matrimonial warfare. Every stitch they unpick pulls them deeper into a century-old fraud—and closer to each other.

With a ruthless attorney circling, a fortune in bearer bonds missing, and a chemistry that frays professional boundaries, Evie and Marcus have one chance to rewrite history before the final argument closes the case forever. *The Seamstress and the Divorce Lawyer* stitches vintage glamour, locked-room mystery, and slow-burn romance into a page-turner where every hem hides a secret, and the past is never truly settled.