After agreeing to accompany his Thai executive wife back to her homeland for a temporary posting, via the promise of his being free to work on his “Great American Novel” while she takes care of business, an American husband finds himself falling under the spell of the young Thai maid his wife has employed to take care of him in her absence. Actually, it’s not so much a matter of him “falling” under during his wife’s absences, he soon realises, as it is the dominant maid forcing him beneath it. And his wife is not so ignorant of his submission as he thought her to be… Rafael Menton is a UK-based Professor of English Literature with a retro passion for the early to mid-twentieth-century fiction of mystery, crime, suspense, and horror & romance with erotic female-led undertones. Mr Menton’s literary tastes range from Doyle and Blackwood and on to Rohmer – as well as sometimes indulging in a more contemporary take of his own on the work of those masters that enables the reader to bring his/her own imagination to the story being read.