An ambitious young milliner. A shy noblewoman fleeing an arranged marriage. Love is a risk neither can afford.

Historical sapphic romance in a steampunk-flavoured Belle Epoque, 63k words.

Solange doesn't have time for love. She's too busy working her way up in the Parisian millinery trade. Her goal: to become rich and lift her family out of poverty. So when a beautiful aristo whirls into the millinery fascinated by hat making, Solange isn't interested. Or so she tells herself.

Louise-Marie hates the fancy parties she's dragged to at Versailles and never wanted to marry. She just wanted to be left alone, making hats. Running away from home to become a milliner seemed like a good idea but the life of a working-class shop girl is harder than she imagined. And her new coworker doesn't seem to like her much.

Thrown together in the cramped backroom of a millinery shop and a shared garret room, their tensions fray, tangle, then bind.

But ambition doesn't leave room for longing. And love was never part of Solange's plan. When she exposes Louise-Marie's secret in her pursuit of prosperity, will she lose everything?

Immerse yourself in a reimagined Paris of the 1880s, a Belle Epoque That Never Was, the steampunk-tinged world of the Roboticist of Versailles.