Foreword
At one point in practically every marriage, a certain period of restlessness sets in.
Even though Joel Pearson deeply loved his beautiful red-haired wife Sheila, he began to develop a roving eye after five years of a successful marriage.
"The Young Swappers" is a novel about what happens in the lives of four restless young people, two women and two men, when they decide to search for greater sexual adventure than their marriages have been providing.
When Joel met fellow race driver Mickey Durrell, who confessed that his marriage was reaching a stage of ever increasing boredom, they struck upon the idea of exchanging spouses one wild weekend under the Palm Springs sun.
The concept of swapping is one that is being discussed with ever greater frequency, and author Raymond Thomas covers the topic in an uncompromisingly frank manner that cannot help but make the reader gain in understanding.
For a short time, after the partner exchange has been executed, all of the parties become convinced that swapping was something they should have undertaken long before.
Like many things in life that leave an instant impression of success, only to end in frustration, the swapping episode unleashed a torrent of bristling emotions.
Joel's wife Sheila learns to bitterly regret what happened to her in Palm Springs, and it is only following a good deal of turmoil that Joel is able to restore some semblance of order into his married life.
"The Young Swappers" has a good deal to say about present morality, and, what happens when two couples lose themselves for an entire wild weekend in unrestrained swapping.
- The Publishers