Three books of men in domestic and sexual thrall to commanding women, including Gillian Ormendroyd's tale of an émigré Dutch landlady on the UK's Yorkshire coastline and the English writer who lodges with to research his latest tome, and never leaves; Laurence Byrne-Claybourne's story of a perennial waster for whom a much-anticipated bequest from a late-aunt in Scotland becomes his worst nightmare... and a dream come true for the aunt's housekeeper and the spinster solicitor administering the deceased's last wishes; and a tale early twentieth-century Russia and a down on his luck golden boy whose empty stomach and lack of prospects force him to take work as the servant of a young and depraved widow from his former poverty-striken village. Inside you will find: "The Landlady" from Gillian Ormendroyd; "The Terms of Her Will" by Laurence Byrne-Claybourne; and Sandrine Bessancort's "The Servant Revisited". Female-led fiction with believable plotlines and characters for those fascinated by women who enjoy the exercise of power.