After twenty-five years of marriage, two kids, and careers they loved, Mike and Julie went looking for a spark — and found the swinger lifestyle.
What followed was funnier, darker, and more revealing than either of them expected.
The Open Book is the true story of their five years inside the lifestyle: the clubs and resorts, the strangers who disappeared and the friends who stayed, the nights that brought them closer and the ones that nearly ended everything.
But here's what makes this book different from every other memoir in the category: they both tell it. Told in alternating voices, Mike and Julie recount the same events — and disagree. Again and again, they walked out of the same room carrying two completely different versions of what had just happened. This book gives you both.
Unflinching about jealousy, trauma, drinking, anger, and desire, this is neither a guide nor a warning. It's an honest account of a long marriage pushed to its limit — and what it took for two people who had every reason to walk away to keep choosing each other.
He remembers it one way. She remembers it another.
That's the whole story.