This HaBO comes from Jessica and she’s hoping to find this historical romance:
Looking for a book I read about 10 years ago. It’s a historical romance. The book came out between 2000 and 2010.
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- Hero is an earl or duke or some sort of title.
- Heroine makes dresses for a lady or friend and no one knows it is her.
- Hero hires the dressmaker to make dresses for his fiancee or sister and has her go to his house.
- She has a room on the second floor that the hero sneaks into at night.
- The heroine makes friends with two ladies helping her with the dresses. One of which is a young lady who finds out she is pregnant later.
- There is a ball or something like that near the end where she runs out into the garden? I think.
- He has paid/ordered a certain number of dresses I think.
Sarah thinks it might be part of the Dressmakers series by Loretta Chase, but she hasn’t read them to know.
It sounds like the Dressmakers series – I read them a couple of years ago.
The sisters in the Dressmakers series aspire to be THE source of fine ladies’ fashion and therefore don’t keep their work secret. I don’t think that’s it.
Thought about the Dressmakers series, but I don’t think there’s any stealth stitching in it. So much of it is about the dressmaking biz, and who could forget the “hot” disaster?
Parts of this sound like the duchess deal by Tessa dare, but a) it’s newer than 2001 and b) the h’s dressmaking isn’t a secret. However, she does make dresses for ladies – including 1 ordered by the duke, befriends a young person who ends up pregnant and the duke breaks into her shop.
Julia London- The Dangers of Deceiving a Viscount
The Desperate Debutantes series
Oh darn! Lynn beat me to it! Smartypants. 🙂
He hires her, then seduces and impregnates her. Are we sure he’s a hero?
@JoS – The hero doesn’t impregnate the seamstress. She is seduced by a rake.
And I cast another vote for The Dangers of Deceiving a Viscount. I loved this series when it came out!
@JoS – I read that as the pregnant woman is a friend of the heroine’s, not the heroine.
Ah. Makes sense.
I read this book!!!!
I can’t remember the title, or who wrote it 🙁
This also sounds a lot like Eloisa James’ newest Wilde novel. I’ll have to look up these other dressmaker heroines, too!
I just finished The Dangers of Decieving a Viscount last night… I am positive that’s the book.
Wedded in Scandal by Jade Lee, part of the Bridal Favors Series
I think the sister’s story is Engaged in Wickedness in the Bridal Favors Series by Jade Lee.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12654153-wedded-in-scandal?from_search=true
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13374491-engaged-in-wickedness
I have read this book sometime in the last year or so, I swear! Maybe Courtney Milan? I remember the heroine with the pregnant friend, altering the friend’s dresses to hide the pregnancy. I feel like she used to be rich or something but then had to get a job in a dress shop to support herself. Maybe The Duchess Deal by Tessa Dare?
Doesn’t Lorraine Heath have a series about a dressmaker?
I think I’ve read this too. I’ll look thru my books and see if anything rings a bell.