Book-One of the "Venus in the UK" collection opens with Ms Omphale's "Venus is Rising" and the story of a middle-aged man in precarious marital and financial shape who seeks help from a young female neighbour made secure by the loss of her beloved parents. A young female neighbour the older and still good-looking man knows has had a crush on him for some time and will ensure she is all too willing to offer her neighbour a helping-hand in his time of need... Even if assistance she offers, though he is not to know it, will soon reveal itself as less a lifeline and more a life-sentence!

Sydne Albright's "Venus in Norfolk" follows this and explains how a shared fantasy from the past can impact upon the reality of the future as a single career- woman with a property in Norfolk, together with a friend and confidante from uni back in her life for the first time in years, share the hostesses tale of how a slightly older man, devastated at the betrayal of his former wife and the loss of a life he loved, comes to be living in her Heacham Beach home. An explanation the UK-based career-woman supplies her recently divorced friend that kicks her visitor straight back to their Uni days and the fantasy each of them shared... A fantasy of control and domestic service one of them now lives on a 24/7 basis.

Believable and fantasy female-led fiction for those readers with a desire to have a light shone on the more... outré ...corners of their imaginations.