First Line Friday (52) Vixen in Velvet (The Dressmakers #3) by Loretta Chase

First Line Friday is a meme hosted on Rampant Readers, where we share the first line of the novel we a currently reading in order to pique the interest of other readers like you. So basically, we just share the first sentence or two of the novel you are currently reading, and tell us whether or not it hooked you in!

The book:

From the Diary of Leonie Noirot: The perfect corset should invite its undoing . . .

Lethally charming Simon Fairfax, Marquess of Lisburne, has reluctantly returned to London for one reason only: a family obligation. Still, he might make time for the seduction of a certain redheaded dressmaker—but Leonie Noirot hasn't time for him. She's obsessed with transforming his cousin, the dowdy Lady Gladys, into a swan.

Leonie's skills can coax curves—and profits—from thin air, but his criminally handsome lordship is too busy trying to seduce her to appreciate her genius. He badly needs to learn a lesson, and the wager she provokes ought to teach him, once and for all.

A great plan, in theory—but Lisburne's become a serious distraction, and Leonie's usual logic is in danger of slipping away as easily as a silk chemise. Could the Season's greatest transformation be her own? (Blurb via Goodreads)

 The first line(s): 

"He lay naked but for a cloth draped over his manly parts."

Hooked?

How could I not be?

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Teaser Tuesday (77) Let it Snow + Vixen in Velvet

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
• Grab your current read(s)
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) -- or less or more -- “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)

"It gets better?' she asked quietly.
He laid his cheek against the top of her head. "So I'm told."
She nodded. She understood what hadn't been said. Of course it didn't get better. How could it? One simply continued living."

location 1306, Let it Snow by Erica Ridley

"Leonie didn't so much as raise an eyebrow.
Inside, though, the Leonies were looking at each other and saying, What? How did he know?""

page 152, Vixen in Velvet by Loretta Chase