With "A Modern Indenture", Frederick Hambling brings us the two-books comprising his classic of interracial, obsession, manipulation, and gender-warfare, "Chattel", together with his sequel to the original, "Indenture By Other Means".

Read on as "Chattel" describes how a man in desperate straits is offered a lifeline by his Indian neighbour. A lifeline that will enable him to keep the home he loves after losing his wife to a lesbian lover and his career soon after. The proposition from his female neighbour involving a period in her own home functioning as a live-in servant. And doing so in exactly the same way as a servant from her own land... With her businessman and husband-of-convenience overseeing his interests back in Allahabad, it soon becomes obvious to the new "Servant" that what his neighbour and now boss sees as "Normal duties" are anything but and he is gradually allowing her more and control over him... Control, though he is not to know it, tailored by her to achieve a very specific end.

At the opening of "Indenture By Other Means", the three year agreement that had seen Robert Samuels become the servant of his neighbour, Navya Chakraborty, in order to keep his home at the end of that period, has finally reached its end... Or has it...? Confident that the levels of domestic and physical dependency she has induced in the older man will make him receptive to a more long-term and binding arrangement, Navya misjudges that confidence and allows herself to make Robert an offer that is not only rejected but declined in total... And with no small heat!... A rejection that sends the would-be "Malkin" into a depression as she realises her over-confidence has lost her the fantasy most dear to her heart...

Or has it?

Believable and female-led fantasy fiction for those readers who prefer to use their imaginations with the help of character-driven plotlines.