Two works of female-led idrama, adventure, and fantasy open with Rafael Menton's "Futaba Namakura-San", in which a disaster looms when a faithless English business owner - with a loving wife and a penchant for other women along with a gambling addiction - loses a huge sum of money. A sum he can't afford to make good on he has lost to a Japanese man in a private game of poker.... A situation he is told he can make good on if he agrees to become a household servant to his younger Japanese wife!
Connor Parnell's illustrated edition of "To Her Requirements", describes the journey of one ill-advised husband, father, and accountant, whose one fall from financial probity changes his destiny and puts him at the mercy of his young and African office-junior and her even more commanding aunt It is a journey his marriage and fatherhood will not survive and one from which he will NEVER extricate himself!... Assuming, that is, he wishes to