Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Grimm’s Hansel and Gretel and Homer’s The Odyssey get a kinky makeover in this collection full of dominance and submission, bondage and beatings. Miranda loves to submit to her forbidden lover, Caliban, but she wields a power of her own and together she and Caliban turn the bedraggled prince Ferdinand into their plaything. Young lovers Hansel and Gretel are lured to the witch’s house, where Hansel finds himself chained and caged ready to be used in the coven’s midsummer ritual, but Gretel takes on the witch at her own game. Penelope has survived the long years of her husband Odysseus’ travels with the help of her 12 beloved handmaidens, but one of the 108 suitors who vie for her hand in marriage proves his true devotion.
