A Past Submission... Plus - 2

3-Tales, mixing the occult and interracial power struggles from the female-led perspective, open with the first of two stories from Rafael Menton in "A Past Submission". Read on, as a financially secure London bachelor in his forties finds himself drawn to a strange bookshop. And finds himself confronted by a large Latina woman who disturbs him for some reason. A large, feline, and formidable woman he swears he has not seen until now but who also looks alarmingly familiar...
As well as triggering within him certain discomfiting and terrifying flashbacks. Discomfiting flashbacks that are about to become all too lastingly real! In Mr Menton's second tale, "Sayidati Zenobia", he describes a pupil-teacher infatuation gone badly wrong. For the tutor. Meaning the life of the lecturer and faithless husband tutoring a Yemeni undergrad is about to take a downward turn. This when that undergrad and heiress decides he will be much better suited in a different role...
That role being a position at her side in her own country, rather than the one he currently occupies in the halls of academe. A life in that country spent at her feet! The triad concludes with Estelle Marchant's "Madam Quadira, as a happy husband and contented father, project-managing in the middle-east to provide his family with a nest-egg, ill-advisedly drinks far too much one evening and lands himself in a prison cell.
But, as if this were not bad enough, he finds he has come to the attention of the wealthy and powerful Madam Quadira. A wealthy and powerful woman who decides she'd prefer it if he remained in her land. For good! 3-Believable works of fantasy female-led fiction for those readers who prefer to use the darker sides of their imaginations with the help of character-driven plotlines.