Introduction
Destiny! Is it choice or design? This powerful question is one which has haunted mankind since its beginning. In an explosive novel of intense literary insight, novelist Jon Stanton has created a cast of characters who play out this question in a drama so realistic that it won't be soon forgotten. That a person behaves according to choice is a theme of utmost importance to contemporary man. What happens when one turns aside from the well-ordered life of day-to-day existence and accepts the challenge of personal choice? Only in a novel of great sensitivity can such an important question as individual freedom, so necessary to the American way of life, be handled with the psychological insight that author Stanton has shown in The Ravished Girlfriend.
When a young woman is exposed to the seamier side of life, especially one not expecting to face anything more challenging than a three-day real-estate convention, the confusion of being forced to participate in a trap of sexual enslavement becomes like a nightmare of horror and fear. How does someone so unprepared handle a situation of cruel violence and unsuspecting assault? The heroine of Mr. Stanton's newest novel turns desperately to an old girlfriend, only to find that evil lurks in places of past security. The world and people change at an ever-increasing rate and it's the responsibility of the individual to choose freedom.
The honesty and frankness of this story may shock you with its realistic language and bold presentation of human response to conflict, but it's one that you can't afford to miss. A young woman sets out on an adventure that turns into much more than she had planned. She's faced with betrayal and evil, and through it all she must find a way to deal with it.
This story also deals with the psychology of self-direction. Each person must find his own path through the wilderness. In this case the wilderness takes us through the plush environment of a large hotel during a real-estate convention. But this story could happen anywhere. And to anyone. It's a story that concerns us all. Only by facing the truth of the world around us can man learn to cope with reality. Nothing must be hidden or ignored. The bigot must be brought forward and examined, for it's only through such close scrutiny, as more and more light is shed on the problems of evil, that the light of truth shines through.
Conflict grows to an unbelievable crescendo as the author plunges the characters of The Ravished Girlfriend into scene after scene of nerve-tingling tension. Horrors of the past are mingled with the greed of the present. And the heroine discovers that she's all alone in a hostile environment with no one to turn to other than to herself. She's forced to deal with problems of sexual desire that she had never before dreamed would concern her. She's forced to cope with long days and nights of both mental and physical ravishment.
This is the story of life in its most basic form, broken down to harsh realities. But primarily, this is a story of struggle ... the struggle of choice. Never before has this gripping subject been presented to the reader in a more compelling or frighteningly real narrative of sexual ravishment and mental despair. This novel is a must reading for the modern reader.
Destiny ... the fear of the unknown grips us all. The future is out there waiting-for what we don't know, but we do know that the choice is ours to face it or to run from it. We direct our life or it is directed for us. This novel plunges a young woman into a web of greed and lust so challenging that she's brought to the very brink of destruction.
It is with great pleasure that we present Jon Stanton's exciting novel, The Ravished Girlfriend.
-The Publisher