An Evil Awakening

With her 2025 edition of "An Evil Awakening", Estelle Marchant takes us back to 1922 where, for one wife, a life of being second best to her husband is about to come to an end after he returns from a business trip to the East with a baffling illness that has left him with the physical strength of a child while leaving his faculties intact. Much good they will do him as his newly liberated wife takes over the reins of both the household and his thriving company. The hapless husband's situation not improved any when his wife takes on a housekeeper come assistant to help her with both him and the home. A sly and manipulative Polish woman who soon makes herself indispensable to his wife and a figure of discipline and authority in the day-to-day of the demoted husband as his complaints of being treated as if he were a child go unheeded by his partner. It is a regression likely to become worse when his wife, with her housekeeper's help, begins to fully embrace the joys of personal freedom and her new position as head of household. A position of authority she has no intention of EVER giving up! Believable female-led fantasy fiction for the lover of dark romance. 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.