The Seamstress of Metro City
Stitching Capes and Mending Secrets

About this book:

In the basement beneath Wanda's Alterations & Dry Cleaning, the needle is mightier than the cape. Wanda Miller doesn't leap tall buildings—she stitches the Kevlar that keeps the people who do from bleeding out on the pavement. Fifteen years of patching bullet holes and replacing burned-out friction cuffs have taught her every hero's measurements, allergies, and exactly how they like their capes draped. But when Sentinel Prime limps in with a suit sabotaged by military-grade degradant, Wanda discovers a killer's signature hidden in the lining: a stitch only her machine could make. Someone is marking Metro City's protectors for the discard pile, and they're using her shop to do it.

Now the city's fastest woman is hiding in Wanda's fitting room with a severed tracker in a jar of motor oil, a corporate conspiracy is rewriting the hero roster in real time, and Wanda's ne'er-do-well nephew just unlocked the back door for the wrong people. Armed with industrial shears, a modified Pfaff 335, and a tailor's ruthless eye for structural weakness, Wanda pulls the thread on a plot that reaches from the Citadel's quartermaster to the boardroom of Apex Industries. She doesn't want to save the world. She just wants her shop back—and she'll unpick every lie in the city to get it.

*Seamstress of Metro City* is a gritty, wry, and wholly original superhero noir where the most dangerous weapon in the room isn't a laser eye or a sonic boom—it's a woman who knows exactly where the stress points lie, and isn't afraid to cut.