3-Female-Led tales of fantasy, horror, and occult possession open with "The Bondage of Eternity" by Connor Kruse. Read on, as a wealthy man about town finds himself infatuated with a woman from Eastern Europe and finds he is a long, long, long way from being the first to succumb to her cultured but noticeably unwholesome charms. Her more negative appeal becoming more obvious when his Romanian Innamorata turns out to be a vampire of the most irresistible kind… A vampire, moreover, who does not take her nourishment and sensual sustenance from the blood of man but, rather, from his obedience. Following this is Ezra Bedford's "The Position", and the tale of an unjustly disgraced man., recently released from prison who applies in his desperation for the position of a live-in secretary at a London Home after reading a most curious advertisement… A reading and an application that will change his life and prove more curious than he thought when the man he thinks will be employing him turns out to be a woman… A woman with a monstrous West Indian housekeeper who shares views on the subject of men that are NOT warm and cuddly! We complete the volume with Rafe Linnell's "Madame Solange", as the lives of two friends in a sleepy English village are turned on their heads when one of them confesses to a murder committed he lived in Paris. Murder committed at the behest of an evil, mesmeric, and sensually warped landlady whose clutches he escaped by returning to England… A demonic and controlling landlady for whom nothing matters but slaking her warped thirst… Control she is determined to exercise over the handsome Englishman once again now she has found him! Believable fantasy and occult misadventure in the world of female-led fiction, for those readers with a desire to have a light shone on the more… outré …corners of their imaginations.