The Society
A Novel
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
Rumors about the Knox and its influence have swirled through Boston for centuries. While some believe the secret society is merely an elite social club, others are convinced it hides something more sinister...
Vivian Lawrence was born into old-money Boston, but when her family fortune vanishes so does her carefully curated life. Desperate, she turns to an old family legend that ties her to the Knox and its inheritance, seeking a way into the exclusive secret society. She doesn’t expect that entry to come in the form of Peter, a Knox insider with movie star good looks and just enough roughness to his charm to make Vivian weak in the knees for the first time in her life.
Far from Boston’s glittering elite is newcomer Taylor Adams, a young nurse eager to leave her humble past behind. When the effortlessly glamorous Vivian lands in her ER after a suspicious fall, Taylor is instantly captivated. But then Vivian abruptly disappears without a trace, sending Taylor on a search for answers that pulls her into the Knox itself—as their new employee.
The further Taylor ventures into the Knox’s world of unimaginable wealth and dark history, the more the mystery surrounding Vivian deepens. As Taylor will soon discover, more so than money or status, secrets are this society’s true currency.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Winn's sumptuous and twisty second novel (after Our Little World), two women are drawn into a mysterious secret society in contemporary Boston. When antiques dealer Vivian Lawrence, heir to old Boston money, discovers she's in financial trouble, she begins investigating her family's connection to the Knox, an exclusive social club enriched by the 19th-century opium trade. Vivian comes to believe that one of her ancestors was the illegitimate daughter of the Knox's founder and that she's entitled to a cut of the organization's fortune. After entering the society's Beacon Hill headquarters, she winds up at the bottom of a flight of stairs with a traumatic brain injury and doesn't remember how she fell. In the hospital's ICU, she's treated by young emergency room nurse Taylor Adams, a recent transplant from North Carolina with aspirations to join the upper crust of Boston society. When Vivian mysteriously disappears from the ICU, Taylor decides to track her down, and her search leads her to the Knox, where she takes a job in the club's restaurant, hoping to find clues to Vivian's whereabouts. Both Taylor and Vivian have enough flaws to credibly land themselves in peril and some dubious romantic entanglements, and the Knox is fascinatingly baroque, soaked in history and possibly deadly mysticism. For suspense fans, this is a delight.
