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Open Bar

A Novel

Published by SparkPress
Distributed by Simon & Schuster

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About The Book

When the longtime abuse by a university’s softball coach of teenagers in its youth summer softball program—and the university’s strategic cover-up of those crimes—comes to light, a community is turned upside down in this drama-filled thriller perfect for fans of Kate Elizabeth Russell and Allison Leotta.

Campus, corporate, and local politics collide when a high-profile sexual misconduct scandal rocks a prominent university.

Serena Stanfield, Mountain Hill University’s human resources director, has just learned that the school’s softball coach has been molesting teenagers in its youth summer softball program for years, and that the university has covered it up from both her and the public. Troy Abernathy, a junior associate at an international investigations firm, is navigating a turbulent, toxic workplace as the company aims to be retained by the university to investigate these sexual assault allegations. Megan Black, a new member of the Mountain Hill City Council, is thrust into the fallout from the national scandal while she simultaneously focuses on securing a presidential commutation for her childhood friend, who is unfairly facing decades in prison after stabbing her abusive husband to death in self-defense.

As additional disturbing details of the coach’s actions are uncovered, Serena, Troy, Megan, and other prominent community figures confront competing interests and unique obstacles while they each pursue different paths toward obtaining justice for the softball program’s sexual abuse survivors—and offer conflicting understandings of what justice would even mean.

About The Author

Dan Schorr is a sexual misconduct investigator at his firm, Dan Schorr, LLC, and an adjunct professor at Fordham Law School. Previously, he served as a New York sex crimes prosecutor, the Inspector General for the City of Yonkers, and an adjunct law professor with Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. He has been a television legal analyst for Good Morning America, CNN, Fox News Channel, Law & Crime network, and elsewhere. His first novel, Final Table, was published by SparkPress in 2021. Schorr lives in Rye Brook, New York with his wife and two children.

Product Details

  • Publisher: SparkPress (August 12, 2025)
  • Length: 256 pages
  • ISBN13: 9781684632572

Raves and Reviews

Open Bar is a gripping page-turner that takes the reader deep inside the chaotic fallout from a top university’s alarming sex abuse scandal. With fast-paced storytelling and compelling, memorable characters, Dan Schorr delivers a moving novel full of gritty realism, perceptive insights, and unexpected twists.”—Tara Rosenblum, Emmy-winning Senior Political & Investigative Reporter, News12 Network

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