Secret Dip

Oliver Pratt grew up with mud on his boots and oil under his feet-and he's spent twenty years making sure nobody can tell. From a struggling Oklahoma farm to a forty-second-floor Manhattan apartment, he's built himself into exactly the kind of man who gets invited to the right parties. He almost had it all figured out. Then Vivienne Hartley served her famous summer dip, and Oliver made the kind of decision that looks brilliant right up until it lands on the front page of a newspaper.
Funny, sharp, and wickedly observed, SECRET DIP is a short novella about a man who mistakes a recipe for a shortcut and pays for it one cracker at a time. Part social comedy, part cautionary tale, it's the story of what happens when a man who has carefully constructed a new identity runs smack into the oldest truth there is: some things can't be bought, borrowed, or slipped into a coin pocket. Perfect for fans of ironic fiction, character-driven comedy, and stories about ambition getting exactly what it deserves.