In these two misadventures of obsession, desperation and fixation: a divorced and disgraced American diplomat is demoted to a position in Chennai's US Consulate and finds only more disgrace - this time at the feet of the Indian female acting as his housekeeper; while in London a man near the end of his tether interviews for the role of admin assistant for which he is obviously over-qualified - though not as much as he is for the real position offered by the Indian businesswoman interviewing him when he discovers the position will involve living in her home... As her English manservant! This volume contains: "A Reversal in Chennai" by Berndt Schuster; and "Desperate Straits" from Shruti Jalav. Two works of believable fantasy and interracial domination for the connoisseur of the woman whose command and assertion is backed by a will-of-iron.