A True Drama... Plus-2

Female-led tales - with a dash of the believable occult - are the theme of these three misadventures involving unsuspecting American and Europeans at the hands of assertive and iron-willed examples of Subcontinent femininity.

Inside you will find:

A once popular actor, touring in an Alan Ayckbourn play, who takes lodgings with two Indian females in the south of England… Two very strange Indian females who appear to have very persuasive mental gifts… Explaining why he finds himself so mesmerized he never leaves.

A disgraced American husband and high-level bureaucrat, promoted sideways to the US Consulate in Chennai, who takes on a live-in domestic to run his new household… A matronly domestic who is determined to use his demoralisation for her own ends… Lady of the house ends!

And, finally, a man - out of home, livelihood and, for a while, his mind; who replies to an ad for an assistant offering a live-in position to an Indian female CEO…  A CEO who has been looking for an Englishman with his potential for service the whole of her life.

Inside you will find:

"A True Drama" by Rafael Menton; "A Reversal in Chennai" from Berndt Schuster; and Estelle Marchant's "Desperate Straits".

3-Believable works of fantasy female-led fiction for those readers who prefer to use the darker sides of their imaginations with the help of character-driven plotlines.