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Book-Three in the "Venus in the UK" collection takes on an interracial theme with two books from Rafael Menton.
Mr Menton opens with "Adhira Khatri", as we meet Thomas Hudson; a man who has been betrayed by the people closest to him and exacted a suitably physical retribution. A retribution that has led to the loss of both his freedom and his young daughter after his anger led to him being sentenced for attempted murder... Anger that soon became weakness and fear during a terrifying stay in prison... A weakness and fear the Indian woman with fantasies of control who had once been his neighbour was about to use to fashion him into the kind of Englishman of whom she had always dreamed!
We close with "A Woman of Haiti", Rafael's description of how a smug, haughty and cynical professor, scornful of superstition and the occult, is brought to his knees – both figuratively and literally - before a conjure woman from the Indies who is visiting London at the invitation of the professor's wealthier - and far more credulous - friend. A conjure woman with mesmeric abilities who will not only enslave his senses in all ways but see that his beautiful English-Rose fiancé takes a delight in doing the same... All this before insisting he accompany back to Haiti to serve her as a...
2-Works of fantastic, yet strangely believable, female-led fiction for those readers with a desire to have a light shone on the more... outré ...corners of their imaginations.