The Last Fitting

Twelve years building a business together. Thirty days to decide who leaves.

Ada Voss knows how to make a garment fit. She is less certain how to make a life without Celia North.

Together, they built Fable Studio, a Toronto dressmaking business sustained by skilled hands, long hours, and a friendship neither woman knows how to untangle from the work. Then Celia serves a notice: Ada must buy her half of the company for $120,000—or sell her own for the same price.

On paper, the choice is equal. Their access to money is not.

With seven unfinished commissions still on the rail, Ada sets out to find a way to stay. But clients keep making choices she cannot make for them, an employee has ambitions beyond the studio, and Celia refuses to let their good years become a reason to surrender her future.

As the deadline approaches, Ada must confront a question no loan can answer: does she want the business they built, or the feeling of being needed inside it?

The Last Fitting is an intimate contemporary novel about friendship, creative work, money, and the difficult freedom of letting a shared life change.