Two books on the subject of the unsuspecting male who has his life turned upon its head by dominant – and possibly deadly – women comprise the interior of these tales from Hillary Marshall and Estelle Marchant. Ms Marshall opens with “A Husband’s Demotion”, her tale of domestic indenture and domination as a once happy and masculine husband is brought to his knees - and worse - by his previously loving wife and the conniving and enabling Indian widow who sees him as the perfect... CHATTEL! Ms Marchant completes our double-header with “Unrelenting”, in which she introduces us to Oksana Bondareva, a young Russian woman talent spotted by Putin’s FSB at an early age who is favoured in the will of an émigré oligarch and takes over his home in a leafy Surrey cul-de-sac… A cul-de-sac where she lives next to a very attractive couple with children… The husband of that very attractive couple being a man whose life she is about to dismantle and own… In ALL ways! Female-led fiction for lovers of the assertive and, thankfully, fictional woman.