Madam Quadira... Plus-1

"Madam Quadira… Plus-1" comprises two tales of dark female-led fantasy.

We open with Rafael Menton's "Sayidati Zenobia", as he describes a pupil-teacher infatuation gone badly wrong… For the tutor… Meaning the life of the lecturer and faithless husband tutoring a Yemeni undergrad is about to take a downward turn when that undergrad and heiress decides he will be much better suited in a different role. That role being a position at her side in her own country, rather than the one he currently occupies in the halls of academe… A life in that country spent at her feet!

Estelle Marchant's "Madam Quadira" is next, as a happy husband and contented father, project-managing in the middle-east, drinks too much one evening and lands himself in prison… But, as if this were not bad enough, he finds he has come to the attention of the wealthy and powerful Madam Quadira… A wealthy and powerful woman who decides she'd prefer it if he remained in her land… For good!

2-Books of dark female-led fantasy and misadventure for those readers with a desire to have a light shone on the more… outré …corners of their imaginations.