Volume-Two in the "Eastern Downfalls" collection contains three more dark fantasy misadventures of the female-led and interracial kind that, psychological, occult, and outrageous as each of them is, contrive to be easily believable also.
Read on, as an English academic, teaching in Madras as a means of distancing himself from an unwanted divorce back in the UK, becomes the first European to take the eye of an ancient and secretive matriarchal religious cult that has yet to accept a man of the white and European kind into the ranks serving its vengeful and implacable goddess... An omission about to be corrected when the visiting academic is handed a welcoming "Rune"... A "Rune" he will soon discover to be less of a welcome and more of a life-sentence!
A devastated husband takes off after walking in on his beloved wife as she is seduced by a guest he once considered his closest friend... An escape that lands him on the Cornish coast and proves a fateful location for him when he takes temporary lodgings with the eponymous "Madame Keiko"... A Japanese woman with a love of the English way and their men... A huge Japanese expat who is about to demonstrate to him that there are fates much worse ? and maybe even better ? than a cheating wife.
Karma delivers a fitting sentence on a former British spy, assassin, and user of women after he visits a kingdom in the middle-east for the usual mendacious and underhand reasons... His visit doomed to be unsuccessful when he is recognised by the young, wealthy and influential daughter of a late-father for whom he once acted as a bodyguard in London and for whom he made his contempt obvious... Contempt coming back to bite him when the daughter decides to give him a wake-up call ensuring he will NEVER use a woman again... Though she will use him!
Volume-Two contains:
"Rune of Evil" by Kurt Steiner; "Madame Keiko" from Jason Sexton; and Gudrun Lindstrom's "Hanifah's White Body-Servant".
Believable and female-led interracial fantasy; written in the psychological style with an element of the occult, for those readers with a preference for exercising the darker side of the imagination with the help of credible and character-driven plotlines.
