Threads of Fortune

New York, 1895. Nora Bellini has spent years stitching beautiful things for women who will never know her name.

An Italian immigrant seamstress trapped on a shirtwaist factory floor, Nora dreams of building a life with her own hands. Then the woman who secretly trained her dies and leaves Nora something unimaginable: half of Maison Van Cortlandt, an elite Fifth Avenue fashion house.

The other half belongs to Jameson Aldridge, a bankrupt heir with old New York manners, wounded pride, and every reason to believe Nora does not belong in his world.

Forced to run the salon together for one year, Nora and Jameson must survive crushing debts, society prejudice, family disapproval, and a powerful rival determined to drive them from Fifth Avenue. As reluctant partnership deepens into an attraction neither can safely ignore, Nora must decide whether love can strengthen the future she has fought to build without costing her the independence she has spent her life earning.

From the crowded tenements of Mulberry Street to the glittering ballrooms of the Gilded Age, Threads of Fortune is a sweeping novel of ambition, family, fashion, immigration, and the courage to claim a place in a world determined to keep you out.