Book-One in the “Demoted Adams” collection contains three misadventures in the world of the female-led. Misadventures for the men, that is. In “Madame Fabienne”, Rafael Menton’s classic two-books on mesmerism and the occult, professor who loses his career, his fiancé, and his very freedom, to the visiting island-woman whose powers his credulous friend who happens to be hosting her describes as astounding and beyond the ken of science. A loss his brother will also experience some years later at the hands and feet of the very same mesmeric and depraved Madame Fabienne. Harland Emerson follows this with, “Becoming the Good Boy”, his tale of how a recently divorced and retired fortysomething ex-tax assessor is gradually sucked into the controlling orbit of the large African woman living across from him in a Rye cul-de-sac. A dominant, and extremely devious woman from Africa who will suck him into her web until his temporary stay in her home begins to seem more like a life-sentence! Book-Two in the collection will follow shortly.