Meet Temple Sachet. She’s young, she’s blonde, and she’s got the party planning gene in her blood. Without trying, without even knowing where to start, Temple rocketed to the top of the Republican Party’s fundraising elite, navigating a treacherous community of lobbyists making deals for dollars, gossiping staffers, and child-like senators. And now she has to raise $95 million.

Party Favors gives a deliciously witty peek into the secretive world of political fundraising in D.C. Written by a former Director of Finance for the National Republican Senatorial Committee, the novel explores the very real truth that favor means you owe, winning won’t save you, and, ultimately, you will be betrayed.

A he-ing & she-ing placea pick-up joint.

Capital Grillea he-ing & she-ing place in D.C. where interns meet congressmen.

Become a matronwhen a woman turns off her sex appeal and morphs into the picture of propriety after she lands a politician husband.

Crash & burnera fundraiser who finds a well and dips, dips, dips, hounding contributors till they finally write a check, even just for five dollars, simply to get rid of said fundraiser. These lists must then be burned.

Fortune tellera fundraiser who has had recent success and is much in demand by politicians.

Codingthe identification number on direct mail pieces used to track donations.

Cagingthe system by which the direct mail donation codes are tracked, ensuring that the fundraiser gets his or her share of the donation.

Ten percentthe standard cut fundraisers take off the top of what they raise.

Ninety percentthe standard cut telemarketers take off phone donations.

Clicks (a.k.a. “donor crack”)photos of donors posing with politicians at fundraising events.

Click linethe frenetic hurricane of pushing and pulling, shaking and flashing, donors eagerly endure for their 12 seconds and a click with Someone Important.