Vixen in Velvet

Loretta Chase

Jun 2014 · The Dressmakers Series Book 3 · Sold by Harper Collins

About this eBook

From the Diary of Leonie Noirot: The perfect corset should invite its undoing . . .

Lethally charming Simon Blair, Marquess of Lisburne, has reluctantly returned to London for one reason only: a family obligation. Still, he might make time for the seduction of a certain redheaded dressmaker—but Leonie Noirot hasn't time for him. She's obsessed with transforming his cousin, the dowdy Lady Gladys, into a swan.

Leonie's skills can coax curves—and profits—from thin air, but his criminally handsome lordship is too busy trying to seduce her to appreciate her genius. He badly needs to learn a lesson, and the wager she provokes ought to teach him, once and for all.

A great plan, in theory—but Lisburne's become a serious distraction and Leonie's usual logic is in danger of slipping away as easily as a silk chemise. Could the Season's greatest transformation be her own?

Ratings and reviews

Another sister falls prey to the little cherub's arrow! Highly entertaining battle of the sexes as well as numerous entertaining (pertinent)quotes from periodicals of the day. HEA but how they get there is worth a read, even a second read!

I loved Sophy's bashfulness and Marcelline's wholesomeness. But Leonie is so hard to like. On top of that, I just didn't like them. I was more interested in Gladys and Swatson.

The Dressmaker series is quite lovely!

About the author

Loretta Chase has worked in academe, retail, and the visual arts, as well as on the streets—as a meter maid—and in video, as a scriptwriter. She might have developed an excitingly checkered career had her spouse not nagged her into writing fiction. Her bestselling historical romances, set in the Regency and Romantic eras of the early 19th century, have won numerous awards, including three from the Romance Writers of America. They have been published in a great many different languages, which she wishes she could read.