2-Tales of wifely ascendancy from the past and the present comprise this volume of believable female-led fiction.

First up is "A Female-Led Marriage", Gillian Ormendroyd's semi-autobiographical classic describing how a wife clever and determined enough can persuade her man into one without losing the respect of friends, family, and colleagues... And put the new regime in place for good... Read on as Ms Ormendroyd gives a blow-by-blow description of what it takes for an independent woman to not only be in control of her own life but to become a figure of command and authority to the man she loves and knows will be all the better under her supervision... Even if he might not always see it that way!

Lastly comes "An Evil Awakening" as Estelle Marchant takes us to 1922 where, for one wife, a life of being second best is about to end. This after her husband returns from a business trip to the East for the company he owns with an illness that has left him with the strength of a child while leaving his faculties intact... Much good they will do him as his wife takes over the reins of both household and company... The hapless husband's situation not improved when his wife takes on a manipulative Polish woman to help with him and she soon makes herself domestically indispensable a figure of authority to the demoted husband as his regression deepens... And looks likely to become far worse!

2-Plausible works of female-led fantasy fiction for the reader who enjoys having the imagination tweaked rather than bludgeoned.