How convenient that it is time for Marcelline to travel to Paris for her annual scouting for fashion ideas and renewing business contacts. Now that the Duke of Clevedon is coming back to marry Lady Clara – not exactly the most fashionable lady around – Marcelline believes that getting Lady Clara as a client will be just what they need to become the leading dressmakers in London. Unfortunately, the ladies of the Ton tend to gravitate to established dressmakers, so the new kids on the block like the Noirot sisters will have to find a way to connect with these ladies. While their parents charmed and grifted their way all across Europe for a living, the Noirot sisters decide to lead a more honest life in London. Oh, they are blue-blooded ladies, but their pedigree is not exactly the most pristine as they are, frankly, daughters of the black sheep from two of the most notoriously disrepute families in England and France. Our heroine Marcelline Noirot and her two sisters run Maison Noirot, a dressmaker shop in Fleet Street. Well, Clara’s brother has taken steps to drag Clevedon back to London when the story opens, and the blue-blooded folks of London, always in need of a diversion, is pretty amused by this turn of event. He is supposed to marry Lady Clara Fairfax, the daughter of the family who took him in after the rest of his family were killed in a tragic accident, but he seems to be taking his own sweet time to do so. First, we have Gervaise Angier, now the Duke of Clevedon, who is busy enjoying life in Paris.

We have a bunch of different people who would have never met under ordinary circumstances. Silk Is for Seduction is the historical romance book to read this year so far if you ask me, because it dares to be different from the usual formulaic stuff out there for the sake of telling a love story and succeeding amazingly in the process. But when she is inspired, the result is spellbinding.

When she’s just so-so, the story is served up in a soup of historical romance clichés livened up by the banters between her main characters. Loretta Chase is an author who can be inconsistent when it comes to her stories.

Silk is for seduction by loretta chase