This is Estelle Marchant's 2025 edition of "Desperate Straits" and the tale of a man betrayed and brought low by the women in his life.

Deserted by both wife and daughter, out of a home, a livelihood and, for a while, his mind; what does a man in his early-fifties with nothing but his still intact looks do to sustain himself?

The answer is to reply to an ad for an assistant to an Indian CEO who is also offering a live-in position.

A female CEO, though her applicant is not to know it yet, who has been looking for a man with... potential ...like his the whole of her life.

And now she has found him will NEVER let him go!

Believable female-led fiction for readers who prefer their imaginations stroked rather than hammered.

Estelle Marchant is the pen-name of a corporate-lawyer employed by a large pharmaceutical company with an HQ in London's golden-mile and an interest in the power-dynamic between the sexes.