This time, both Mary and Tre realise that what they have is special and that they don't want to lose each other again.

Non mancheranno avventure piene di ritmo che, più di una volta, sembrano maggiormente adatte a un bel noir old England rispetto a un romance vittoriano. Meeting on and off through the years the attraction is still there but it is only when Mary and Trefusis work together to recover stolen papers that the attraction and the love they share wins through. Mary has deliberately cultivated a mousey persona that allows her to remain overlooked and underestimated by all.INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER From Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, a sweeping, romantic compulsively readable historical saga about a Duke’s daughter—the perfect Victorian lady—who secretly moonlights as an amateur sleuth for high society’s inner circle. The time was necessary as both characters needed to learn more about themselves, to grow, to find what was important. A most intriguing lady follows Lady Mary Douglas Montagu Scott and Walter Trefusis, Colonel Trefusis (Tre).

The story is broken into 4 parts; in the first Mary finds herself running a shooting party for her parents and has to handle a situation when one of the employees, a close friend, is accused of theft. The characters, by and large, are likeable and interesting with the bulk of the focus rightfully on Mary and Tre.She did marry Colonel Walter Trefusis, who was 13 years older than her, but that is all that is currently known. Stepping out for some fresh air he is shocked to see Lady Mary walking across the parapet high above.

This is the second book in the series, by Sarah Ferguson and Marguerite Kaye, but is a standalone story the first being about Mary’s older sister Margaret. Lady Mary Montagu Douglas Scott wants more from life than what is traditionally expected of the daughters of nobility in the Victorian era; marriage and servitude to her husband are not for her. Enter Trefusis, who falls for Lady Mary almost immediately after meeting her - with a penchant for solving crimes and acting on a whim, Mary is a most intriguing lady, indeed!In turn a sweet, heart flutteringly worth and intense romance, an ode to women and their thirst to be themselves, a knowledgeable glimpse into the Victorian era and its ways and mores, a cozy detective story, a spy adventure. While the time period is not necessarily known (to me) for women empowerment or feminist leanings, Lady Mary’s feelings and worries did not feel at all anachronistic, and I could readily identify with her. This was a book that held me in thrall, at times with my heart in my mouth and at others with hope that Mary and Trefusis stop being idiots and declare their love.