This is Estelle Marchant's 2025 edition of "Desperate Straits" and the tale of a man betrayed and brought low by the women in his life. Deserted by both wife and daughter, out of a home, a livelihood and, for a while, his mind; what does a man in his early-fifties with nothing but his still intact looks do to sustain himself?The answer is to reply to an ad for an assistant to an Indian CEO who is also offering a live-in position.
A female CEO, though her applicant is not to know it yet, who has been looking for a man with... potential ...like his the whole of her life. And now she has found him will NEVER let him go!Believable female-led fiction for readers who prefer their imaginations stroked rather than hammered. Estelle Marchant is the pen-name of a corporate-lawyer employed by a large pharmaceutical company with an HQ in London's golden-mile and an interest in the power-dynamic between the sexes.
This is Estelle Marchant's 2025 edition of "Desperate Straits" and the tale of a man betrayed and brought low by the women in his life. Deserted by both wife and daughter, out of a home, a livelihood and, for a while, his mind; what does a man in his early-fifties with nothing but his still intact looks do to sustain himself?The answer is to reply to an ad for an assistant to an Indian CEO who is also offering a live-in position.
A female CEO, though her applicant is not to know it yet, who has been looking for a man with... potential ...like his the whole of her life. And now she has found him will NEVER let him go!Believable female-led fiction for readers who prefer their imaginations stroked rather than hammered. Estelle Marchant is the pen-name of a corporate-lawyer employed by a large pharmaceutical company with an HQ in London's golden-mile and an interest in the power-dynamic between the sexes.