Fiction-3, in a series of short female-led tales from the pen of Xavier Couperin, brings us the story of a wife’s betrayal that sets a husband and businessman on a downward spiral of drinking and gambling that leads him into a condition of abject servitude on an island nation on another continent. A condition of servitude a former neighbour from the UK and the orphaned teenaged niece who lives with her have no intention of allowing to end. Fiction-3 in the series is: “White Chattel in Mauritius”. Mr Couperin is the writer of a number of female-led titles on the subject of the assertive woman throughout life in general, and the marital dynamic and the power-struggles that turn it upon its head in-particular.