Unravelling D'Artagnan - The D'Artagnan Trilogy, #3

D'Artagnan left the château, his château...'He stood at the bottom of the staircase with his overnight bag in his hand, the expression in his eyes... destroyed.  He blinked his beautiful brown eyes as I sat there in the salon, hollow inside, my face soaked with tears. I just... I can't, Nicole, je ne peux plus - I don't know any more how to be with you when there is no trust between us.  Tu m'as brisé le cour.'In the two years since D'Artagnan spirited Nicole away to live in the Duchess, his seventeenth-century chateau in South-West France, Nicole has overcome obstacles and accomplished feats of which she'd never imagined herself capable.
Now, however, she has torpedoed D'Artagnan's joint business venture with Satan.  She feels no remorse about that; what does concern her is that she might have seriously misjudged the nature of the man she married.  And that misjudgement could be the end of their marriage... In this, the third and final book in the 'D'Artagnan' series, Nicole is forced to realise that her witty, often caustic assumptions about the people in her new life in France might be inaccurate. And to wonder: do fairy-tale endings really still exist, even for grown-ups?247 pages.