However, their plan is a bit unusual in that, instead of pursuing Clara directly, Marcelline travels to France to meet the Duke and convince him to bring Clara to her shop to be 'dressed' by 'the best modiste in the world.' The subsequent adventures of Marcelline and Clevedon, and their growing attraction to one another sparkle with clever plot twists and the sharp dialogue that is a Chase trademark. They discover the impending betrothal of Gervaise Angier, the seventh Duke of Clevedon to the woman he's been promised to since they were children (Clara.) Marcelline and her sisters recognize that they have an opportunity to 'hit the big time' among the ton if they can snare the custom of Clara, the soon-to-be-Duchess of Clevedon. Marcelline Noirot is a modiste who, with her two sisters, owns and operates a dressmakers' shop and they have grand ambitions and copious talent. I found the first half hour or so a bit confusing what with all the French names and places and the introduction of a lot of characters, but - hang in there - it grabbed me and ran fairly quickly. 'Silk is For Seduction' hits all those notes perfectly and it's wildly engaging and entertaining.

*My readers in the UK, Australia, and New Zealand are all too familiar with that special circle of hell known as sublicensing.LC delivers classic LC romance and it's a gem! Loretta Chase excels at clever plots, complex and interesting characters and sparkling dialogue set in historically accurate (or, as accurate as any period romance can be and still be 'romantic') locales and situations. And thanks to all of you for being so patient with the vagaries of publishing* as well as my writing! Thank you to the readers who let me know, so that we could get the repair process going. I am not sure why it happened, but I can say that my publisher immediately went to work to fix it. Amazon has the two audiobooks as becoming available on 12 November. Apparently, this takes rather longer than it does to renew your driver’s license, because the restart involves a lot of different contracts & technical matters. What I can tell you in this particular case is, a license expired and has to be renewed. What I still don’t understand is why, once readers have bought the audiobook, they can’t have access to it forever, the same as a print book. I understand it, but explaining it is beyond my powers of articulation. I will not attempt to explain sublicenses or why I can’t just push a button and get things back into print or audio or eBook. Upon checking with my publisher, I learned that the audio sublicenses for these two books had ended.

They were unable to re-download two of the Dressmakers books, Silk is for Seduction and Vixen in Velvet, which they’d previously bought. A while back, some of my readers alerted me to a problem with my audiobooks.

Silk Is for Seduction by Loretta Chase