Two exotic and exotic reads for the price of one open with Mason Carstairs' "An Irreversible Slide", his tale of how the nineteen-year marriage of Aaron Taylor-Greene imploded in the space of one afternoon and changed his life from happiness to misery with little more than the blink of an eye... Misery, though he wasn’t to know it, that would become worse when he accepts a company posting after his divorce to work in New York and sees him meet two strangers in a Greenwich Village bar... The gorgeous, feminine and seductive, twenty-something, Taylor; and the not so gorgeous, but strangely compelling, Chinese thirty-something, Estella Tan... It will be a meeting that will not only change his living-arrangements, his career, and the sense of himself as a proud man, but will lead to a life of domestic service and erotic dependence. The second of our tales is Harland Emerson's "Obsessed in Thailand", in which, divorced after cheating and left with a neck-problem when the husband of the colleague with whom he cheated lays a beating on him, Matt Arondsen is advised by his boss and female friend to visit the Asian massage centre that helped cure her husband’s own neck and back problems. However, when he takes her up on the offer and enters the massage service advertising itself as "Thailand Bliss", he sets his life on a collision course with destiny and personal serfdom... For the therapists at this particular massage-centre – and one in particular - have unusual gifts likely to create dependence and obsession in certain clients of whom Matt is DEFINITLY one. Mason Carstairs is also the writer of the LGBTQ classic, “Taming Timmy”; while Harland Emerson is the author of the well-received works of the female-led fiction, "Ms Bernice", and "Becoming the Good Boy".