In this 2023 edition of Maurice Huysman’s “A Cage for Hercules”, a young woman living with her aunt discovers that her own yearning for control over the opposite sex is mirrored in her older relative and finds both their lives becoming a sight more interesting as a result. Especially with the advent into their quiet village existence of a wealthy man from the city looking for an idyll of his own in the peaceful British countryside. For it turns out the dominant aunt herself had once exercised total control of the kind hankered after by her niece over the younger woman’s late-uncle and has been searching for a replacement since his untimely passing. A replacement for that uncle they are sure the male new to their community will prove perfect when he becomes smitten with not only the niece but the aunt herself. Female-Led fiction for the devotee of the commanding woman.