A two-book anthology of female-led depravity and psychological warfare between the genders opens with Sydne Albright's "Venus in Norfolk".

Read on as Ms Albright explains how a shared fantasy from schoolgirl and undergrad days is made real after a friend from university visits her former confidante at her Norfolk home. Escape made to flee an unhappy marriage back in the States. Her understandably downbeat mood improving when she finds that former shared fantasy is no longer confined to the imagination... At least not if the story her friend and hostess weaves for her turns out to be true and the guest she insists resides in her basement is more than simple wish fulfilment and an invention of the imagination... A possibility the troubled and soon-to-be-divorced guest finds incredibly exciting despite her incredulity... Incredulity that is about to be contradicted in the most shocking and satisfying of ways!

Next up is Spencer Haskell's "Ms Hasekura", as an ageing "Player", about to be divorced and kicked from his home by a young and wealthier wife, finds himself offered a lifeline by the equally wealthy neighbour opposite who remains a friend of his estranged partner... And no... That lifeline, despite what his ego tells him, will not involve his becoming her live-in lover ? at least not in the way his vanity describes to him; though it will involve him living in... As well as a trip to her native Japan at her side... A most informative trip that will not see him return as the same man... Or a man at all, come to that!

Female-led fiction of a decadent and psychological nature for those readers who prefer to use their imaginations with the help of character-driven narratives and believable plotlines.