THE DUCHESS DOES NOT LIKE ME - SHE CONSIDERS ME AN UNWORTHY, PEASANT-CLASS HARLOTIt is a truth universally acknowledged, that a divorced investment-banker in possession of a dilapidated 17th century chateau, must be in want of a new wife.Or so Nicole wryly observes after D'Artagnan sashays into her life and she finds herself married to the world's most arrogant, seductive Frenchman and living in the Duchess, the capricious chateau he has recently inherited in South West France. Being the owner of 26 pairs of Louboutin stilettos, she's sceptical that life in la France profonde is quite her cup of cafe.'I realised that he loved the chateau and he wanted to live in it, but not on his own. No, he wanted to bring his naive, newly captured wife whom he had lured into the trap so very, very cleverly, to live in it with him.'Nicole's past is dark; an ex-model, she suffered an abusive childhood, was exploited in her teens and has overcome heroin addiction. And then there is mercurial Karl from whom she fled after he finally shattered her heart; is she over him? It seems he might not be over her...