The first in a collection of female-led stories with a twist, containing two adventures in one volume, open with the work of Mason Carstairs. Mr Carstairs first tale of assertive womanhood and the places to which it leads is “Taming Timmy”, in which a dilettante writer is betrayed into the clutches of a powerful and attractive African woman by the businesswoman wife he thought loved him… An attractive African woman who is a long way from being what she appears to be and is about to have a lasting and detrimental effect upon what remains of the husband’s life… Along with his self-respect and everything he thought he knew about himself as a man! “An Irreversible Slide” and the story of Aaron Taylor-Greene and the implosion of his marriage that led the forensic-accountant escape London for New York. A relocation that results in him meeting 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… 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.