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Breaking Her Pattern: Big City Heat, A Steamy Sapphic/Lesbian Romance
Vivian Marchetti has spent her life making sure everything fits her rules.
Tess Halvorsen may be the one woman she can’t cut to pattern.
Nobody in Ainsworth, Nebraska, thinks Tess Halvorsen is extraordinary.
Then Vivian Marchetti sees one of her suits.
Within days, Tess is headed for Manhattan and a temporary position inside one of America’s most exclusive bespoke tailoring houses. It should be the opportunity of a lifetime—except Vivian makes sure Tess understands exactly where she stands.
At the bottom.
Vivian is brilliant, commanding and ruthlessly disciplined, a woman whose entire life has been built around systems that never fail her. Tess is younger, stubborn, instinctive—and maddeningly capable of seeing things Vivian’s precious patterns cannot.
Tess intends to learn from the best.
She doesn’t intend to challenge her.
And she definitely doesn’t intend to want her.
But as Tess’s raw talent begins changing the way Vivian sees her craft, professional fascination turns dangerously personal. Late nights at the cutting table become lingering touches, forbidden looks—and a secret affair neither woman can control as easily as she pretends.
Talent brought Tess into Vivian’s world. Desire could destroy everything they’ve both fought to earn.
Tess Halvorsen may be the one woman she can’t cut to pattern.
Nobody in Ainsworth, Nebraska, thinks Tess Halvorsen is extraordinary.
Then Vivian Marchetti sees one of her suits.
Within days, Tess is headed for Manhattan and a temporary position inside one of America’s most exclusive bespoke tailoring houses. It should be the opportunity of a lifetime—except Vivian makes sure Tess understands exactly where she stands.
At the bottom.
Vivian is brilliant, commanding and ruthlessly disciplined, a woman whose entire life has been built around systems that never fail her. Tess is younger, stubborn, instinctive—and maddeningly capable of seeing things Vivian’s precious patterns cannot.
Tess intends to learn from the best.
She doesn’t intend to challenge her.
And she definitely doesn’t intend to want her.
But as Tess’s raw talent begins changing the way Vivian sees her craft, professional fascination turns dangerously personal. Late nights at the cutting table become lingering touches, forbidden looks—and a secret affair neither woman can control as easily as she pretends.
Talent brought Tess into Vivian’s world. Desire could destroy everything they’ve both fought to earn.
196 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 15, 2026
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