When eight-year-old Rose Lutes leaves London for the mountains of West Virginia, she feels like she’s lost everything—her home, her horse, and the life she knew.

But a sketchbook changes everything.

As Rose begins designing the clothes she wishes existed, creativity becomes her escape, friendship becomes her strength, and one cruel insult inspires the name of a future fashion empire.

Wrinkled Rags: A Designer Is Born is the unforgettable origin story of the girl who will one day turn imagination, rebellion, and a handful of “wrinkled rags” into something the world will never forget.

Rose Lutes has survived tragedy, cruelty, and a childhood that should have broken her.

Just as her life is finally beginning to take shape, a brutal attack changes everything.

As the people who love her race to hold their world together, Rose faces the most dangerous fight she has ever known—and the terrifying truth that survival may require more than strength alone.

But Rose has never been the kind of person who waits for rescue.

After barely surviving an attack meant to destroy her, Rose Lutes escapes to London with the people she trusts most.

But safety comes at a price.

As Rose prepares to launch Wrinkled Rags onto the world stage, enemies close in, secrets unravel, and the fragile bonds of trust are tested like never before.

Because when your life becomes an empire…
you learn very quickly who is truly on your side.

Rose Lutes vanished without a trace.

For a year, the people who loved her searched for answers while their world slowly unraveled without her. Just when hope begins to fade, a discovery suggests the impossible—Rose might still be alive.

But the truth behind her disappearance is more complicated than anyone expected.

And bringing Rose home may be the hardest fight of all.

Nikita has spent her life surviving a system that was supposed to protect her.

When she finds a group of teens who understand exactly what that survival costs, they begin building something stronger than friendship—something like family.

But when the truth about the system they’re trapped in begins to surface, Nikita realizes survival isn’t enough anymore.

Sometimes the only way forward…
is to strike a match.