Book-One in the "Husband Downgraded and Worse!" collection opens with an anthology of two works on the subject of the erstwhile happy wife who has her head turned sometimes by bad actors, sometimes by her own long-repressed desires and decides she is owed something more exciting from her marriage.
Something that, while it thrills her, is unlikely to appeal to the husband she purports to love.
Charlotte Glendinning opens our anthology with "Locked for Service" and brings us a cautionary tale for men and women both of a financially comfortable and happily married couple with grown-up children whose world begins to change around them when the wife of the partnership finds herself responding to the adventures of a beguiling female work-colleague and the cuckolding and female-led relationship she has with her own husband. A relationship, the mesmerised wife and mother is told, she can have with her husband if she is bold enough to make the changes needed in her marriage Changes that will include blackmail of both the emotional and the sexual kind, humiliation, and chastity.
Rafael Menton concludes book-one with "Hubby's New Place Revisited", in which a wife wrests control of her husband's Real Estate Agency and puts him on a domestic footing in the home. Helped in her objective by a practitioner of the female-led lifestyle who is also her fitness-instructor. A fitness-instructor convinced her pupil's husband has certain traits that make him the ideal "beta-husband" who will be far happier if he acknowledges his true status and treats his wife the way a partner of an alpha-woman should It will NOT end well!
2-Works of female-led fiction for the admirer of the assertive woman.