TRAILBLAZER. VISIONARY. ICON. CRIMINAL?
 
In the sun-drenched chaos of 2010s Silicon Valley, a tech company's meteoric rise culminates in a devastating fall. Dot Van Jensen, the trailblazing CEO-turned-fugitive, narrates her story from a hidden corner of Indonesia. A scandal has painted her as the villain, a puppet-master who fractured democracy and paved the way for a darker future. But is the truth as cut and dry as the headlines seem to imply?
 
While Dot weaves a tale of One Story's genesis, her co-founders—her son, Jon, whose formative years saw him sheltered from technology on a secluded ranch, and Rae, the enigmatic partner who saw in Dot a path to power—grapple with their own legacies.
 
As a documentary crew digs for the truth, a chorus of over a thousand voices, the company's employees, fill the pages with their own narratives. They always believed the work they were doing was putting them on the right side of history, and they’re not going to let it be told any other way. If anyone is going to take the fall, it’s going to be Dot, and if she won’t fall, there are plenty who will push her.
 
One Story is a captivating look at ambition, betrayal, and the power of narrative in a world hungry for answers. It's a story where the lines between hero and villain are blurred, and the true cost of progress becomes a question mark shimmering in the California sun.

About the Author

Pip Finkemeyer is a novelist living in Naarm/Melbourne. Her debut Sad Girl Novel was published in 2023. You can find her writing in Harper’s Bazaar, Kill Your Darlings, Big Issue, Eleven Stories: The Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize, Mojo Best of Fiction Anthology, and more. She has a Masters in Publishing and Editing from RMIT. Pip has worked for tech companies in Australia and internationally, including a language learning app and in the not-for-profit space. She has a special interest in inclusive and accessible design. In this work as a UX writer, designer and researcher, she spent her days learning about the thoughts and feelings of people using the internet, and has tried to capture some of those thoughts and feelings in One Story.