The Pre-Raphaelite Seamstress

It is the 1860s, and Rachel Faraday is trying to follow in the footsteps of the Pre-Raphaelite artists. Struggling to make a living, in a world that looks down on female traders, she paints her fabrics in the colours and styles of the artists and sells them to wealthy women who daydream about clasping the men of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood between their thighs. One night, she meets a man, who, after the coldness of her cottage and the loneliness of her existence, shows her the possibility of a different life. The next day, he is arrested on suspicion of cold-blooded murder. As Rachel sets out to prove his innocence, she realizes that she must come to terms not only with the evidence in front of her, the vagaries of her trade, the hot-blooded attentions of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, but her own erotic longings and the secrets of her past. "I loved everything about this piece. It had lovely mesmerizing descriptive writing. It is the kind of lovely writing and thoughtful story that just drew me in. I wanted to read more and more of it. The time was fascinating, the characters were fascinating and the topic was fascinating… I loved the language, the style, the era. It reminded me just a bit of the way Deanna Rayburn writes and I love that style! - Amazon Vine Reviewer, for Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award 2013