The Switch
A Novel
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- $13.99
Publisher Description
“Friendship takes a dark turn in this sexy, seductive thriller.” —People
Two couples. One dark, twisted game of love and obsession. Suspend your disbelief on this roller-coaster ride of a domestic thriller about the dangerous secrets that come to light when a wild fantasy turns sinister. . .
Young couple Elena and Adam are housesitting in a posh corner of London and are instantly seduced by their new upscale surroundings. Here, Elena meets her neighbor, the enigmatic artist Sophia, and soon becomes obsessed with her beauty, her easy poise, and her husband, Finn. Sophia is everything Elena isn’t—glamorous, alluring, successful—and Finn exerts a mysterious pull on Elena that she can’t seem to shake.
Elena’s infatuation with Finn grows stronger by the day, and when Sophia proposes a thrilling game to her new friend—to swap partners in secret—Elena quickly agrees. It’s not long before Elena experiences a sexual awakening that blossoms into an illicit love affair, but Sophia’s plans are far more dangerous than Elena could ever have imagined…
Will the two couples survive the consequences of their disturbing manipulations and salacious deceptions?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Samson debuts with a daffy tale of romantic suspense about a twisted game of partner-swapping between two London couples. Freelance proofreader Elena and her husband, IT support staffer Adam, are living rent-free for a season in the ritzy Wimbledon home of Adam's aunt. One morning, Elena meets Sophia, a beautiful artist, at a local café and gets pulled into the orbit of her and her husband, Finn. Soon, Finn and Sophia's lavish lifestyle unleashes a flood of envy in Elena, leading her to stew on the flagging passion in her own marriage and her distaste for Adam's overbearing mother. Per Sophia's suggestion, Elena agrees to secretly swap husbands for the night (a caper facilitated by blackout curtains) and feels an immediate, electric connection to Finn. What starts as a titillating game becomes something much stranger when Elena learns the precise nature of Finn and Sophia's arrangement, and begins to wonder if she can comfortably cut them off without risking her life. Samson swings for high melodrama, but uninspired prose and nagging implausibility make this a firm miss. For all its sex talk, this thriller generates little heat.
