Paris, at the dawn of the modern age: Prince Sebastian is looking for a bride--or rather, his parents are looking for one for him. Sebastian is too busy hiding his secret life from everyone. At night he puts on daring dresses and takes Paris by storm as the fabulous Lady Crystallia--the hottest fashion icon in the world capital of fashion! Sebastian's secret weapon (and best friend) is the brilliant dressmaker Frances--one of only two people who know...

In 1938, eleven-year-old Esther joins her father in tropical, multicultural Cuba, where they toil together to rescue the rest of their Jewish family from persecution in Poland. Includes notes about the author's grandmother, on whom the story is based.

Deciding to become a spy after her father is killed and his money goes missing, Annis Whitworth uses her talent for sewing magical garments to open a dressmaking shop as a cover while she quietly searchs for her father's murderer.

At Serendipity House, a grand mansion in 1920s London, two girls, one living downstairs as a servant and the other living in wealth upstairs, combine their fashion designing and dressmaking talents to secretly make outfits for the debutante ball and help one attendee who wants to escape high-society life.

A famous singer comes into Sue's suit shop for a special hand made suit, and Sue's son has an idea for a very special suit.

New Orleans of 1872 is a city ruled by the dead, but nevertheless offers a safe haven for seventeen-year-old Celine Rousseau, forced to flee her life as a Parisian dressmaker. The sisters of the Ursuline convent take Celine in and soon she is infatuated with the city's glitzy underworld of La Cour des Lions. She even catches the eye of the group's leader, Sâebastien Saint Germain. Then, the body of a girl from the convent is found in Sâebastien's...