Takeover-2 in the "Hostile Takeovers" collection fetches us another short and illustrated tale designed to prove that every picture tells a (female-led) story.

For the second of our Takeovers, Gillian Ormendroyd brings us the tale of a rash, divorced, and now Paris-based Dutchman who, during after office-hours drinks with a Japanese female colleague, confides the details of a sexual fantasy of male-chastity to her.

A fantasy he insists he would like to at least experience on a temporary basis to clear it from his system.

Unfortunately for Willem Rijkardt, his drunken choice of confidante, rather than be put off, is very interested in his fantasy.

In fact, so interested is Himari Esumi she not only brings up his inebriated confession to him the following day but offers to help him experience it.

What she doesn't tell him, however, is that she is even more interested in becoming his keyholder than he is in finding one.

Or that once she has him locked away she has no intention of allowing his chastity to be temporary.

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