Four-books of women testing their ability to control men open with “A Husband in Hell”, Toby Melia's tale of a devoted and loving husband whose wife wants to open their marriage...For her! Shruti Jalav's “A Very English Chattel” tells the tale of a divorced English lecturer, on temporary assignment in India who is teased and manipulated into a submission that will last for longer than the duration of his stay! Gillian Ormendroyd's “A Female-Led Marriage” brings us a semi-autobiographical take on the wife who wants to rule her household. And, finally, Rafael Menton's “The Obedient Husband” brings us a completely fictional marital misadventure in which yet another husb finds himself no matchfor the women in his life. Four adventures in the female-led for the reader with a fascination for the assertive female.