In the two years since D'Artagnan spirited Nicole away to his 17th Century château in France, she has overcome obstacles and accomplished feats of which she'd never thought herself capable.

Now, however, she has rather torpedoed D'Artagnan's joint business venture with the man she refers to as Satan, and although she feels no remorse about that, what does concern her is that she might seriously have misjudged the nature of the man she married.

That misjudgement might mean the end of her marriage, but it might also mean that her chance to finally become a mother is also jeopardised – something that would shatter her heart into a million pieces.

In this, the third and final book in the 'D'Artagnan' series, Nicole realises that her witty, often caustic assumptions about the people in her new life in France – including the ethereal presence of the Duchess with whom she shares D'Artagnan's ancestral home – might in fact be very wrong.

And she wonders: Do fairy-tale endings really still exist, even for grown-ups?

247 pages.