The Red Dress, Frank Huyler
The Red Dress, Frank Huyler
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The Red Dress

Author: Frank Huyler

Narrator: Gary Bennett

Unabridged: TBD

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/08/2026

Synopsis

The price of service to wealth and power is exposed when a father’s limits are tested on an ultrarich family’s remote islandNick, in the wake of a failed marriage, settles for the relative ease of a well-paid job captaining a luxury yacht, but it leaves little time for his seven-year-old daughter Natalie. In a stroke of good fortune, he is offered a mysterious yet lucrative opportunity that allows Natalie to tag along, and they are soon flying across the globe in a private jet. The workload proves light and they are encouraged to enjoy the sun, surf, and island amenities—but they must wear customized digital glasses that shield the identities of his employers. When Natalie is invited to play with their children and her treasured red dress disappears, Nick discovers that everything is not as it seems, and what began as a grand adventure warps into an unsettling mirage.An exploration of extreme privilege, global inequality, and the power of emerging technology, The Red Dress is also an eloquent story about our search for connection that raises essential questions about what we owe to ourselves and those we love.

About Gary Bennett

Gary Bennett is a SAG-AFTRA audiobook narrator. He was born and raised in California and then in Bozeman, Montana, and is the oldest of four children. He now calls the greater Seattle area his home, and he's a huge fan of the Seattle Seahawks. Gary has always been passionate about not just telling a story, but telling it well. From reading bedtime stories with his children to performing in front of the microphone, bringing a story to life is one of his greatest joys. Gary has pursued his career in audiobook narration with zeal, continuing to not only invest in personal coaching from some of the best in the industry, but also investing in some of the best equipment for his professional home-based studio. There are few things he enjoys more than stepping into his StudioBricks home studio and recording his favorite books. Gary is also a licensed electrical engineer and a private pilot. He loves watching and participating in sports and listening to and playing music, and is an avid outdoor enthusiast.

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“Riveting. . . . A suspense-filled, character-driven novel about a fraught father-daughter relationship and the father’s work to redefine himself.” 

“Restrained but dense with foreboding, [The Red Dress] is a potent parable about the dangers wrought by cloistered elites. . . . [An] incisive adventure.” 

“Frank Huyler is the rare writer who combines a soaring imagination with gorgeous prose and a lapidary social vision. I loved The Red Dress, a beautifully narrated story of a man and his daughter colliding with our shared ‘future’—already too present. The winner-take-all society devours beauty and fragility wherever it finds it, even in the form of a seven-year-old’s cherished red dress.”

“The Red Dress is one of the very best novels I’ve read in recent years. It’s all here—the complications of love, work, family, and age brought to bear in the struggle of a good man trying to make a decent life for himself and his young daughter. In the increasingly surreal island paradise where Nick and Natalie find themselves, they encounter not just the weirdness and whims of the ultrarich, but the threat this kind of mind-boggling wealth poses for the rest of us. Frank Huyler is a novelist of the first rank, and The Red Dress had me firmly in its grip from start to finish.” 

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