Egyptian Bondage... Plus-1

2-Works of fantasy and female-led fiction open with Ahmed Bhogosians tribute to Theophile Gautier, "Egyptian Bondage"…

Read on, as Cleopatra returns to Egypt in 31BC, leaving Mark Anthony to flee the defeat at Actium with his conqueror Octavian in hot pursuit; knowing as she does that her own days as both a queen and free woman are numbered… At her summer palace, she decides on one last, magnificent debauchery before delivering herself to the bite of the Asp. This that she might carry the memory to the new life in the underworld of Anubis… But where will she find an experience she finds as original as it is perversely sensuous?... The appearance of an obsessed and handsome Sardinian merchant will soon provide her with a solution… And a man who will come to wish he had never heard her name!

Next, we have Sandrine Bessancorts homage to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "A Scandal in Bohemia Revisited"…

Read on once again, as Dr John Watson leaves behind a posthumous retelling of a Sherlock Holmes adventure and reveals the great detective in ways we have neither seen nor suspected… A man and Victorian detective of vast and analytical intellect who has proved, until now, emotionally impervious to the human emotions of passion and attraction when it comes to the female… And a man about to feel the full force of feminine power for the first time after a king in mufti visits Baker Street and entrusts to him and the doctor the task of retrieving some ruinous pictures… Pictures of him with a certain superior woman who is about to enter the life of the detective… And stay there!

Believable fantasy-fiction from a female-led perspective, written in the classic and psychological style; for those readers with a preference for exercising the darker side of the imagination with the help of credible and character-driven plotlines.