From Proud Man to servile canine. A middle-aged English lothario’s marriage to a none too beautiful German heiress, many years his junior, does not turn out to be the ticket to riches and independence he was certain he could manipulate it into being. He is about to be led a dog’s life. Literally! “Perched on his haunches, he forced his thoughts from the indignity to which the powerful young black girl – scarcely nineteen to his forty-three – had forced him, and prayed she was not serious about the wife who was his no longer, except on paper, requesting he perform the same task for her. As if divining his thoughts, Anobi set her glass down and reached out to stroke him behind the ear, knowing how much he shrank from her touch and was terrified to show it – unless he wished to be taken across her smooth and immense black thighs until he learned to better appreciate her control of him and the few scraps of affection she threw his way.”