In this first collection of Estelle Marchant's female-led fiction, we meet: A wife and businesswoman who knows just how to use her superior financial clout to make her cheating older husband toe a humiliating and abject line; a wealthy Indian widow who takes advantage of her husband's recent demise to seek out her fondest desire... The ownership of an English manservant; A married project-manager on temporary assignment to the middle-east who takes the eye of a powerful Arab lady who soon decides "temporary" should become "permanent"; and an English wife who takes advantage of her husband's illness to begin taking over both his household and his business. Helped in her task by the no-nonsense Polish lady she's engaged to act as her husband's... Nanny! Inside you will find:: “Wear My Panties… Or…?”; “Desperate Straits”; “Madam Quadira”; and “An Evil Awakening”. 4-Believable works of female-ascendancy for the reader who enjoys tales of strong and commanding women.