Felicia has been quietly in love with her happily married boss for twenty years now that he's a lonely widower, she just needs the right situation to make him see her as more than the best executive assistant in midtown Manhattan.

Natalie is a Bloomingdale's sales girl mooning over her lawyer ex-boyfriend who's engaged to someone else after just two months. This is a fun book, tightly plotted and perfectly timed for the summer season.A charming, hilarious, sweet-as-candy romp of a debut novel that brings together nine unrelated women, each touched by the same little black dress that weaves through their lives, bringing a little magic with it. And using multiple points of view enlivens and adds a lightheartedness to the book's romantic story lines Natalie and Felicia tell their stories, but so do the men in their lives, Jeremy and Arthur, not to mention a host of others united by the fateful dress. Rosen adroitly ties together her stories: the author is at her most romantic with Natalie, a Bloomingdale's saleswoman, and Felicia, a middle-aged woman secretly in love with her widowed boss she is at her most clever with Sophie, an underemployed Brown grad using selfies and hashtags to fashion the life she wants. Max Hammer's little black dress, as executed by 90-year-old pattern-maker Morris Siegel and singled out by Women's Wear Daily, becomes the dress of the season.

Like the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series, Rosen's witty debut novel features a transformative item of clothing, not for four girls coming of age, but for nine women living in present-day New York. For these three women, as well as half a dozen others in sparkling supporting roles-a young model fresh from rural Alabama, a diva Hollywood star making her Broadway debut, an overachieving, unemployed Brown grad who starts faking a fabulous life on social media, to name just a few-everything is about to change, thanks to the dress of the season, the perfect little black number everyone wants to get their hands on.

Andie is a private detective who specializes in gathering evidence on cheating husbands-a skill she unfortunately learned from her own life-and lands a case that may restore her faith in true love. Felicia has been quietly in love with her boss for seventeen years and has one night to finally make the feeling mutual. Natalie is a Bloomingdale's salesgirl mooning over her lawyer ex-boyfriend who's engaged to someone else after just two months. A charming, hilarious, irresistible romp of a novel that brings together nine unrelated women, each touched by the same little black dress that weaves through their lives, bringing a little magic with it.

Nine Women, One Dress by Jane L. Rosen