Lovesick Mannequins by Anna Harmon

It only takes a loose stitch to unravel someone’s heart.

Celine LeBeau is a socialite whose face is plastered on every magazine in Paris. Modelling the lines of Chanel and the other major Houses, Celine dreams to join their ranks one day as a designer herself. When Maison Baudelaire announces a competition where the winner will inherit the rights to the fashion house and ten thousand francs, Celine is the first to apply. The only things missing are: a model to wear her gowns and a limitless amount of lies to tell her controlling mother and her boyfriend Jacques until the competition is over.

Bastien Ménard is a known womaniser who graces the scandal sheets with tales of his lavish parties and strings of broken hearts. When his latest soiree gets out of control and his brother Jacques tells their grandfather, Bastien is forced to find a way to pay for everything he’s spent. Unfit for any kind of labour and intent on settling the score with his brother, Bastien’s only solution is one dazzling girl.

Desperate to win, Celine agrees to share the competition prize with Bastien in exchange for his secrecy. Bastien agrees to become her model in exchange for the money and…to steal her heart from Jacques. As every round they pass inside Maison Baudelaire draws them closer together, they realise that they have to give up something:
Celine the glittering life she already has in order to make her dreams come true and Bastien his own selfish heart in order to steal another.