Book-One in the “Warped Goddesses” collection brings us two tales of European men who find fate, in the shape of the assertive Indian woman, has a different role in mind for them than the one they thought would be theirs. Frederick Hambling opens the collection with, “The Caging” his tale of a now affluent and independent young Indian widow who uses the female-led stories she’s read online as a template in her quest to realise a long-held fantasy… A fantasy that will see her exercising complete power over an English manservant in the conservative heart of the man’s own country. Following this is Hillary Marshall’s, “A Most Strange Position”, in which a man, wife a memory, grown children having washed their hands of him, and all traces of his former comfortable life vanished, finds himself shunted from the less than loving-care of one His Majesty’s correction facilities into the equally uncaring and draconian hands of what passes for the welfare-state of the UK in 2024. Which is when a vacant, live-in situation is brought to his attention by one of the female trainer’s on the mandatory Work-Skills course arranged for him by his Job Centre… A position the will his life upon its head… And in a far more final way than his spell behind bars! Mr Hambling is the writer of the classic of interracial female-led dominance, “Chattel”; while Ms Marshall is best know for her study of husbandly demotion, “A Loss of Control”