She did marry Colonel Walter Trefusis, who was 13 years older than her, but that is all that is currently known. Substitute the first man for woman and the second man for Fergie no-not-the-Black-Eyed-Pea-the-black-sheep-royal and that should clarify whether A Most Intriguing Lady will be gracing your ormolu bedside table. Amongst all the limitations and expectations placed upon women at that time, The Duchess of York has played around with the facts and created some what of a sleuth with her heroine, Lady Mary. I thought the last puzzle was leading us down a strange Charlie's Angel type avenue, which if i'm honest I found a bit less believeable. sigh* Each and every one of the characters was so well painted and each breathed life on its own (my favourite, besides Mary and Tre, is certainly Lady Rolle).

Bookish, fiercely intelligent, and a keen observer, Mary has deliberately cultivated a mousey persona that allows her to remain overlooked and significantly underestimated by all. I'm a fan of Miss Scarlet and the Duke and was hoping for something in a similar vein, but was sorely disappointed. Instead of focusing wholely on romance, Sarah Ferguson chooses, instead to focus on bringing to life the "forgotten" women of the Victorian era.She makes no visible effort to create a life for herself - we are told that she does some lady detective work, but for most of the book, she's meekly following her mother, generally unhappy and dissatisfied with everything.

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. That person was Lady Mary Montagu Douglas Scott, the youngest child of Queen Victoria’s close friends the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch.Mills and Boons is not my usual type of book I read but I was intrigued in the author Sarah Ferguson, and I wasn’t disappointed. Postage charges vary according to the weight of your items and the destination country, and are calculated at the checkout. In the Victorian period, Mary feels she is the invisible quiet daughter--her parents have tried to find her a husband to no avail, but she wants do be able to do something without just being a traditional wife and mother. She eventually convinces him to let her become part of its operation, arguing that she's perfect for the role.

This was so easy to read and i ended up turning the pages effortlessly, some books I feel are very complicated and you can get lost and lose track of the characters but this wasn’t one of them. The two form an unlikely alliance to solve a series of audacious crimes—and indulge in a highly charged on-off romance. Big names garner headlines and Ferguson’s debut Her Heart for a Compass, which featured the Titian-haired, befreckled beauty Lady Margaret Montagu Douglas Scott (any resemblance to the author entirely deliberate), was a surprise bestseller in 2021. The writing flowed well and with charm, building the era and clothing and world without overdoing it. I failed to read further as the characters were not introduced with enough depth and neither was the plot .

She is still very hurt and a bit bitter about him leaving her 3 years earlier (though they weren't really in a relationship at the time-they hadn't even kissed).

I thought it was an okay story although there were so many English terms or words that I was not familiar with. 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. Proprio durante questo evento conosce il colonnello Trefusis, un uomo singolare che nasconde molti segreti e ha uno spirito indomito, lo stesso che anima Mary cacciandola spesso nei guai. To access you ebook(s) after purchasing, you can download the free Glose app or read instantly on your browser by logging into Glose. 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.Anyone who enjoys the Lady Darby mysteries (set earlier in the 19th century) by Anna Lee Huber might enjoy this one, too. 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. 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!