Big Shots Club

A reclusive botany professor mulls an unsolicited invitation to leave everything behind—except Ruthie—and join an exclusive club with an enigmatic name.

A reclusive botany professor accepts an unsolicited offer to join an enigmatic and exclusive club. The price? Leaving behind everything he holds dear—except Ruthie.
Professor Bartholomew Cobb, a New York City college botany teacher, receives a mysterious invitation to join an exclusive club with a name epitomizing wealth and privilege—two attributes he lacks in spades. Weighing his humdrum life, the circumspect scientist throws caution to the wind and accepts the unsolicited offer. However, upon entering the Manhattan highrise clubhouse teeming with power brokers and glitterati, he meets the founding member and CEO of The Powers That Be, Artemus Pennywell. The aristocratic older man invites Cobb to peer through a telescope pointing heavenward, revealing the impetus behind his fish-out-of-water presence, and further, acceptance of the offer means abandonment of all the professor holds dear, except for Ruthie.