In Caspar Michael Friedrich's “The Other Life”, a happy husband is transported into a parallel world after a plane crash and finds he is nowhere near as happy in it — though he is utterly dominated by the wife who doted on him in his real existence; Elliot Freund's “Between a Rock and a Hard Face”, tells of an in debt womaniser who finds his fate in the service of of one of his ex-wife's vindictive friends and her new and warped Indian family; Malkin Jamali's “Serving Ms Shreya”, describes a down on his luck and recently divorced Englishman who applies for lodgings with an Indian widow; only to eventually discover she has a far more… servile …fate in mind for him; while Maurice Huysman's “She Was Evil” brings us a retro tale of crime and adventure featuring a diabolical Chinese criminal mastermind and a seductive daughter who will not rest unto the story's hero acknowledges himself her slave. Four books of exotic female-led fiction for connoisseurs of the dominant woman.