Silk Is For Seduction by Loretta Chase

It's a romance this time around - one by the divine Loretta Chase.  There is something magical about the way she breathes life to her characters.  Each body movement, each piece of dialogue is so well-crafted, that I feel they are standing next to me.  She takes a character type you think you already know and completely turns it on its head, making them genuine and human and unique.  And the clothes descriptions in Silk Is For Seduction are absolutely mouth-watering.  After all, the heroine is a dressmaker. 

From the Design Book of Marcelline Noirot:
The allure of the perfect gown should be twofold:
ladies would die to wear it . . .
and gentlemen would kill to remove it!

Brilliant and ambitious dressmaker Marcelline Noirot is London's rising star. And who better to benefit from her talent than the worst-dressed lady in the ton, the Duke of Clevedon's intended bride? Winning the future duchess's patronage means prestige and fortune for Marcelline and her sisters. To get to the lady, though, Marcelline must win over Clevedon, whose standards are as high as his morals are . . . not.

The prize seems well worth the risk—but this time Marcelline's met her match. Clevedon can design a seduction as irresistible as her dresses; and what begins as a flicker of desire between two of the most passionately stubborn charmers in London soon ignites into a delicious inferno . . . and a blazing scandal.

And now both their futures hang by an exquisite thread of silk . . .