Double Switch is a full length novel with a Prologue, an Epilogue and 18 chapters. So it will take a commensurate time to read. It is erotic in places but not on every page or even in every chapter. So a little patience is necessary. It is a love story, actually three love stories. I hope you will be rewarded for your time and trouble.
All of the major characters are completely fictional and bear no resemblance to actual people, living or dead.
Prologue
"You can't be serious", gasped Ernest, as he stared at his wife in utter disbelief. "You can't mean what you just said! For nearly thirty years, I thought I'd..." He exchanged a dubious glance with Frank, his twin brother sitting across the table. Except for the four of them, the patio was deserted. All of the other lodge guests had gone inside, most to bed, but some to play cards or do jigsaw puzzles, or just sit and talk, or read; in the overstuffed chairs dotting the large rustic lobby.
"Frank, did you...? That night? You never said you..."
His brother didn't respond, but even in the dim light, his countenance displayed the pangs of longsuppressed guilt and embarrassment he felt at the mention of the prank they had concocted as young newlymarried men.
It was fortunate the two couples had the patio to themselves. The subject matter of their conversation demanded privacy.
Frank Adams, his wife Sally, his identical twin brother Ernest and his wife Sue, had not had the opportunity to share such intimate accounts of their earlier life in many years of jobenforced separation. Their alltofew brief previous gettogethers, over their thirty years of marriage, had afforded them little opportunity to become really re acquainted and to relive the exciting times of their courtships and early married lives. Besides, in those few meetings they did manage, the presence of parents and/or their children inhibited whatever opportunity they might have otherwise had to let their hair down, as they were finally now able to do this night.
Ever since they made plans to rendezvous at the lake, which had played such an important role in their earlier lives, all four had been anticipating this opportunity to get to know one another once again and reminisce about their early days as young couples. Sally and Sue, also identical twins, had married their husbands thirty years before in an impressive double wedding ceremony.
Ernest K. Adams, with his PhD, in chemical engineering, had worked all over the world since receiving his doctorate twenty-seven years before. In the intervening time, he designed, and upervised the construction of, large chemical plants and refineries in over a dozen countries.
As a result, he and Sue have made their home in Europe, South America, Asia and the Near East; but only briefly, and seldom, in the U.S. His expertise, always soughtafter, he has commanded substantial salaries and thus has accumulated comfortable nest egg for his eventual retirement. Sue, when she wasn't busy raising their three children, Ernest Junior, Sandra and Richard, spent most of her time writing, with considerable success, becoming a well known author of some two dozen commercially successful historical romance novels, most set in Elizabethan England.
