Bold as Brass (Women with an Attitude #1)
Sarah Richmond

A milliner’s apprentice, Dolly Wycliffe pursues her dream to make fashionable ladies’ hats. She engages Edmund’s help to sue a powerful English lord for the wrongful death of her father who’d been in the lordship’s employ.
Edmund obliges, especially with a sizable wager at stake. His friends have bet against him, believing he won’t be able to wrestle a shilling out of the titled gentleman, especially with a shop girl as a client.
Dolly and Edmund discover her father’s death wasn’t an accident and defy tradition and social order to find out the truth.
As their mutual attraction grows stronger, they become aware more than her wide-brimmed hats keep them apart.