Length9h 6m
About this audiobook
Julian Sterling has been telling himself the distinction for three months. Not his father's designs. The idea of them. He redrew every line, recut every pattern, built each piece from the ground up. Tributes are standard in this industry. Everyone references everyone.
Someone brushes past him shoulder to shoulder in the last seconds before the curtain, does not stop, does not turn, and says four words pitched so only he can hear them.
*Borrowed taste doesn't last.*
Nathaniel Ashford saw those sketches once. Three months ago. For thirty seconds.
The next morning Julian is counting zeros on a bank statement when his sister Maya limps into the office with a chipped mug and does the arithmetic out loud. Two weeks from default. Three if they skip the studio rent. Four if they skip the spring fabric order. Their mother's care facility is raising its rate again in October, and the only thing the family owns outright is the building their grandfather bought in 1962.
Harriet Vance will sign the contract that saves the label. She has exactly one condition, and she delivers it without blinking: Julian co-designs the collection with Nathaniel Ashford.
Nathaniel has no more room to move than Julian does. He proves he can build bridges instead of burning them, or the Ashford label goes to Trevor, his younger brother, who does not have the eye but does have their father's ear. Trevor films their first meeting from the doorway, phone raised, grinning, documenting for Dad.
So the two of them share a cutting table: pins laid out in a neat row, muslin, a shoulder seam, a shirt unbuttoned for a fitting under clinical light and a thumb brushing once across a collarbone.
And then a designer named Damien Cross comes to the studio with a second folder, spreads forty-seven sketches across that same table, and points out that every one of them is dated four years earlier than Julian's father's versions and signed in careful block letters with a name that is not Sterling.
An enemies-to-lovers workplace romance between two men in fashion, about borrowed lines, a house running on fumes, a brother with a phone camera, and what it costs to finally put your own name on something. The romance is closed-door.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance, Biography and Memoir
Length9 hrs 6 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 15, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Prologue
2Chapter 1 - The Door I Swore I’d Never Open
3Chapter 2 - The Art of War
4Chapter 3 - Loose Threads
5Chapter 4 - Fitting Room
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6Chapter 5 - Fabric of Lies
7Chapter 6 - The Preview Gamble
8Chapter 7 - The Taste of Smoke
9Chapter 8 - The Anatomy of Betrayal
10Chapter 9 - The Edge of Trust
11Chapter 10 - The Midnight Runway
12Chapter 11 - The Inside Job
13Chapter 12 - Threads from the Past
14Chapter 13 - The Weight of Originality
15Chapter 14 - The Public Face
16Chapter 15 - The Sewing Floor Confession
17Chapter 16 - The Ghost in the Sewing Machine
18Chapter 17 - The Warehouse Trap
19Chapter 18 - The Ashes of the Lie
20Chapter 19 - The Black Ribbon
21Chapter 20 - The Second Wound
22Chapter 21 - The Phoenix Stitch
23Chapter 22 - The Runway of Truth
24Chapter 23 - The Cost of a Rose
25Chapter 24 - The New Pattern
26Chapter 25 - The Protégé
27Chapter 26 - The Family We Choose
28Chapter 27 - The Thread That Binds
29The End
30About the Author
31Also by Robin Vale
32Acknowledgements
33A Note from the Author
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