Every floor is a map. Every job is a law. Every law rewires the world.
Arby Riswell was just a kid in a dusty Arizona shop when his mentor Bill handed him a glowing strand of fiber and showed him the truth: a floor isn't just something you walk on. It's a hidden network that can carry power, secrets-even time.
Years later, Arby is the world's most sought-after installer, moving from cathedrals and high-rise lobbies to resorts, airports, data centers, and rooftop pavilions. With Charlee and Sam at his side, he isn't just laying carpet-he's weaving a global grid beneath the feet of the rich and powerful.
Each high-stakes job teaches a ruthless law of power:
• Turn betrayal into leverage in a grand cathedral reveal.
• Command silence in a seventy-fifth-floor lobby that can't afford a single squeak.
• Polish a four-hundred-year-old mosaic without cracking history.
• Tempt rivals into your design at a silk-draped river pavilion.
• Steer crowds and money through skybridges, terminals, and transit hubs.
But as the hidden network grows, something starts pushing back. Signals ripple through distant nodes. Floors strain in ways Arby didn't design. Somewhere out in the high desert, an unseen watcher is tracing the same lines and drawing a rival pattern onto the world.
To stay ahead, Arby will have to do more than fix other people's floors. He'll have to claim the corridor he's building under everyone's feet-and decide who gets to walk it.
Told in cinematic "jobs," each anchored by a law and finished with Arby's field notes, Seams of Power - Book II: Hidden Network blends blue-collar craft with high-stakes, contemporary fantasy.
