Estelle Marchant

The second volume in the "One-Way-Marriages" collection brings us two fantasies in the female-led describing wives whose husbands thought they were in secure and patriarchal unions. The key word being: THOUGHT. Read on, as we go back to 1922, where, for one wife, a life of being second best is about to end. This after her husband returns from a business trip to the East for the company he owns with an illness that has left him with the strength of a child while leaving his faculties intact.
The hapless husband's situation not improved any when his wife takes on a manipulative Polish woman to help with him and she soon makes herself domestically indispensable as well as a figure of authority to the demoted husband as his regression deepens. And looks likely to become far worse! Three wives in the English Home-Counties have a similar problem and have had it for years. Their husbands. Overbearing husbands who save their best efforts for the golf-course and its nineteenth-hole while treating them as little more than hired-help.
Or at least used to until the appearance in the wives' lives of a strange and powerful African family change the whole marital dynamic in ways the men will not like and will not have any power to stop. Ways that will see power transfer itself to the women in ways that will by emphatic, euphoric, and for one of the husbands, tragic!   Volume-One contains: "An Evil Awakening" by Estelle Marchant; and "The Spiral She Led Him Down" from Anise Pemberton. Believable, if outrageous, fantasy-fiction from a female-led perspective, written in the psychological style for those readers with a preference for exercising the darker side of the imagination with the help of credible and character-driven plotlines.