This is the updated 2025 edition of Frederick Hambling's classic of interracial female-led fantasy, "Chattel".

Read on as, down on his luck, without options, and about to be evicted from his home, a divorced Englishman is offered a lifeline by the Indian woman living across from him.

But it will not be the offer of a position with her chain of local supermarkets he had been hoping for but an entirely different proposition he finds not only toe-curlingly insulting but, and worse, impossible to refuse in his current situation.

And the position itself?

To rent out his home and become her live-in manservant.

And for a substantial period until his Indian neighbour's incremental outlay, intended to keep his head above water, sees his debt to her repaid and his finances made solvent once again.

A position in her home, he can be forgiven for not knowing, he will NEVER leave if he bends his neck, swallows his pride, and accepts it!

Believable fantasy and female-led fiction with a psychological slant, for those readers with a preference for exercising the darker side of the imagination with the help of believable and character-driven plotlines.

The sequel to "Chattel" ? "Indenture By Other means" ? is now Online.

Frederick Hambling is the pen-name of a high-ranking Oxbridge educated civil-servant with a long-held fascination for the assertive woman who relishes both responsibility and the exercise of authority ? be it corporate, political, or, and preferably, personal.