Malkin Jamali bring us "An Unlikely Obsession", the 2025 edition of her tale of a smug and feckless man brought to a more realistic understanding of who - and what - he is by a most unlikely source.

Read on, as the recently divorced and waster nephew of a deceased aunt and last living relative travels from London to Dorset with high-hopes of having his money problems made a thing of the past.

Only to find that he is not the recipient of the old girl's will and has been made quite a different bequest.

The bequest of room and board in the house he expected to inherit and sell.

Room and board supplied under the supervision of the aunt's young Indian housekeeper whose existence he had barely acknowledged and who now was the recipient of all the late-aunts goods and investments the feckless middle-aged nephew had expected to inherit.

Supervision the young woman with a taste for the nephew's looks ? if not his condescension ? intends to last a good long time.

Believable female-led fantasy fiction for those readers who prefer to use the darker sides of their imaginations with the help of character-driven plotlines.

Malkin Jamali is best known for her two female-led tales, "House of Servitude" and "Serving Ms Shreya".